I remember installing the leaked 6801 build on my laptop and using that as my daily for schoolwork. After that, I installed and used every leaked build right up to release.
I was curious about this so I did a little historical lookup.
I can only ever find the modern "smooth 3d" Windows icon in any Windows XP image, screenshot, release event image, anything. XP has only ever used the modern 3d flag.
The last time Microsoft seemed to have used the square flag with tail Windows image was in Windows 2000 or ME, pre-XP launch.
I did find images of ME also using the 3d flag, but I can't confirm they're actually of original OE Microsoft branding. MS did still sell retail copies of 2000 and ME alongside XP for a short while, so it's possible they updated the older OS branding (not that anyone wanted 2000 or ME at that point). But why would they backtrack XP's branding??
I really have no clue where this XP image with the square flag is from, it's either art someone created to backdate its design aesthetic or its an AI hallucination.
You might be right. In doing a little more searching around (read that as brute forcing Google to do what I'm asking it to do after numerous tries) all I find of that kind of logo with XP seems to be either wallpapers, which are automatically suspect, and a few that call themselves "90s style" which infer they are made in the 95/98 style vs. the real XP. So yeah, probably.
That type of thing is actually pretty common for fully offline equipment. Think things like CNC machines that get all their instruction files via USB. Nobody is replacing a quarter-million dollar machine just because the OS is old.
But, yeah, if you connect such a thing to the internet, ooooh boy.
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Or Windows 7, it was great.
Long forgotten, these days it's all about high socks femboys and Linux ricing
Boot xp again, it's trash
7 was peak imo
I remember installing the leaked 6801 build on my laptop and using that as my daily for schoolwork. After that, I installed and used every leaked build right up to release.
It says xp but that's 95?
I think it stayed similar from 95 - 98 - XP. Some XP started to show a 3D version, but there's the flat simpler one out there too.
I was curious about this so I did a little historical lookup.
I can only ever find the modern "smooth 3d" Windows icon in any Windows XP image, screenshot, release event image, anything. XP has only ever used the modern 3d flag.
The last time Microsoft seemed to have used the square flag with tail Windows image was in Windows 2000 or ME, pre-XP launch.
I did find images of ME also using the 3d flag, but I can't confirm they're actually of original OE Microsoft branding. MS did still sell retail copies of 2000 and ME alongside XP for a short while, so it's possible they updated the older OS branding (not that anyone wanted 2000 or ME at that point). But why would they backtrack XP's branding??
I really have no clue where this XP image with the square flag is from, it's either art someone created to backdate its design aesthetic or its an AI hallucination.
You might be right. In doing a little more searching around (read that as brute forcing Google to do what I'm asking it to do after numerous tries) all I find of that kind of logo with XP seems to be either wallpapers, which are automatically suspect, and a few that call themselves "90s style" which infer they are made in the 95/98 style vs. the real XP. So yeah, probably.
XP had the 3D logo, but the still had a classic theme, so for the most part it still looked and felt like Windows 9x more so than Vista could.
Check out some enterprise artifacts. That stuff was slower to brand if I remember correctly.
It's c:\windows\system32\logo.sys
I still have WinXP in a VM. Run it whenever I want to play Stars!
Did you use legacyupdate.net?
i remember when some idiot on facebook kept trying to argue with me that continuing to use xp a full 12 years after its EOL was fine, actually.
ever since i've wondered once in a while when his bank account got breached for the first time.
It is, if you don't connect it to the internet.
Which means you have to invent interesting ways to write on Facebook
Like, using a pocket computer to write?
That type of thing is actually pretty common for fully offline equipment. Think things like CNC machines that get all their instruction files via USB. Nobody is replacing a quarter-million dollar machine just because the OS is old.
But, yeah, if you connect such a thing to the internet, ooooh boy.
Hell, until just four years ago the US nuclear arsenal ran on 8 inch floppy disks
Ever seen an ATM BSOD? Bet you it's running XP.
I just my Plasma theme resemble XP in CachyOS
link to discover page?
The theme is Expose, you can get it from the theme settings, "Get New..."
https://store.kde.org/p/2136378
I'll definitely be looking for this in the morning. Thanks!
Unfortunately it's not gone.
I saw an adscreen using windows xp to play videos a few month back lmao