Re:Remembering Windows 2000
by Wistar on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:17PM
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As someone once remarked "On XP everything looks as though it should go MOO! when you click on it."
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Ha, that’s so true.
After growing up with Amiga and then MacOS, I only really encountered Windows XP when I started my first proper job.
Couldn’t believe that that was the default OS for professionals and businesses. With all the chunky graphics and bright colours it looked so childish - like it was designed for preschoolers, not 98% of the world’s computing.
There was even a puppy animation when doing a search.
And you could switch the puppy animation to a cat, or a wizard, or probably several other options!
You could easily switch it to look like earlier versions of Windows, however. I miss that ability in 8.1 and 10; up through Window 7, I could make my desktop look like Windows 95 if I wanted to, and sometimes I did. Nothing like having a colleague walk up to you in 2017 and asking you, "is that Windows 2000?"
Thank MS Bob for that...
That ia surprisingly succinct. I'll be copping this one for the future.