I used Windows XP in 2025. Here's my experience.

So, I used Windows XP in 2025. Here's my experience giving it a go. Released in 2001, Windows XP quickly became a widely-used and beloved version of Windows, with its Luna theme, Bliss wallpaper and iconic sound scheme. It remained Microsoft's OS flagship until 2007 with the release of Windows Vista, and was discontinued in 2014 after 13 years of service. Embedded releases continued to get support until 2019, and it is still rather popular.

In this video, I go over the history of Windows XP, and look at applications bundled with XP and some that were popular at the time, and I play some era-respective games such as Bejeweled 2, Touhou 7 and Halo CE. I hope you enjoy this video.

Of course, it would be a tragedy for me to not include these timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:50 - History
5:06 - The computer of choice
5:39 - Startup
6:28 - Bundled Software
9:27 - Popular Software
11:42 - Gaming
15:40 - Conclusion

Yes, I am aware I said this video would be released yesterday evening. I decided to wait a tinge more as if I released it too early it would affect channel performance in the later ends of the week.

Credits:
Video edited in DaVinci Resolve 19.1.1
Audio Recorded using Audacity 2.3.0
Thumbnail edited in Paint.NET 5.1.1
"October launch for Windows XP", BBC, Author Unknown, 2001 May 9. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1...
"Windows XP", BetaWiki, BetaWiki Contributors, 2024 December 16. https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_XP
"Windows Neptune", BetaWiki, BetaWiki Contributors, 2024 November 9. https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_Nep...
sega-dreamcast-set.png by Asim Saleem (Asim18), CC BY 3.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... - via Wikimedia Commons
Depictions of Windows Whistler, Longhorn, Blackcomb, Odyssey and Triton logos created by me using a mixture of public domain resources.

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