Windows XP and Windows 7 are legendary in Microsoft Windows' history. I miss my childhood on the former. It's the longest support for Windows XP in 13 years.
Windows 1.0 - the beginning Windows 95 - the world changer Windows XP - the nostalgia Windows 7 - the best Windows 8 - the worst Windows 8.1 - the underrated Windows 9 - the non existent Windows 10 - the most advanced
Windows 3.0 - the best. Windows 7 - the last step forward. Windows 8, 10 - steps backwards, back to 16 color icons, uglier than even Windows 95, to be able to run on a phone.
Couldn't have put that better! Every Windows till the XP - which was best - was harmonic, aesthetically pleasing, and easy to use with natural intuition. Since 7 everything has become more scrambled, looking cluttered and less intuitive to distinguish visible parts from each other and per their functionality. Always even after regular years of use it feels like brain is needing to do hard work all the time to have even the simplest things done (and it actually is exactly what is happening - heavier subconscious work to build clear thinkings from cluttered observations). XP and earlier ones really feel like a nature walk everytime I do anything with them.
Yeah, I know a lot of people on here have nostalgia for XP, but 95 was truly the most revolutionary of all of them. When you look at the prior version (Windows 3.1), it does not resemble modern Windows very much. But when you look at Windows 95, it is basically the same as the current version of Windows as far as the layout goes, just not as pretty. When you compare Windows 95 to the other OS’s at the time (it would be 6 years before Apple released OS X), it was way ahead of its time.
In my opinion, Windows XP was the most successful. I had it since I was 12 and grew up with it the longest. It broke when I was 25. My older brother had Vista and when that broke, he bought a Windows 7 laptop.
0:14 Windows 1.0 1:07 Windows 2.0 1:46 Windows 3.0 2:40 Windows 3.1 3:23 Windows NT 3.1 3:57 Windows NT 3.5 & 3.51 4:38 Windows 95 7:04 Windows 98 8:17 Windows 2000 9:07 Windows ME 10:08 Windows XP 11:09 Windows Vista 12:23 Windows 7 13:24 Windows 8 & 8.1 14:49 Windows 10
My school didn't fully swap their various different cr*ppy laptops with XP, vista and 7 until 2017/2018 when we got a mixture of 8.1, ipads and win10...bruh
Windows 95 was the most memorable. When it was first released, it felt like a worldwide event. I remember how amazed I was after installing it on my old computer.
Post the launch of Windows 11, this serves as a retrospective on the legacy the company thrives on. And yeah....a great nostalgic experience....basically my childhood.
My first was Windows 95. THE MEMORIES. Wow. The freaking memories.. We had that thing all the way into 2006 or something. It was mostly mine because I used it the most, but of course it was mom who owned it. The next one we got was Windows XP, on an HP computer.
This literally brought tears in my eyes. I am currently 18 and my first PC was on Windows 98. I can't say how nostalgic I am feeling right now, bruh. Thanks for this video. ♥️
I've always wondered why I never see pictures of the OS I grew up using. It turns out it's because we used Windows 2000, which I guess was marketed for businesses and not consumers, so most people remember 98 or XP. Interesting!
@@bodiejarvis Trust me if I could I would use Windows 7 but I have Ryzen processor. Overall Windows 10 has good security tho, meanwhile 7 is approaching its End of life. But gonna be honest Windows 7 is the best system imo and more easier to use.
The biggest shift I remember was Windows 95. We had 3.11 at home, but I remember we got a new PC at school running on Windows 95. The fold-out start menu and the task bar, as opposed to the menu being at the top of the screen, was a major shift in the interface and one still used a quarter of a century later. There was that brief moment in Windows 8 where they removed the Start button to make a more app-based, smart device-friendly interface. This was so hated by users, that Windows 8.1 quickly followed, its main 'raison d'etre' being that the start button was back. Some things are perfect the way they are. The Start menu was a great idea in 1995 and it's still a great idea 25 years later.
Yeah, Win95 interface was great, however sooooo unstable. Once Windows NT got the UI with the NT 4.0 we finally had a realiable, good looking and practical Windows operating system for the first time :).
my family still has windows xp to this day and im currently getting my garbage windows 10 fixed but atm i have my old windows 7 which i love and is the best pc ive ever had
Person: Hey Dr. Gates I have a question. Bill Gates: Yes. Person: Are you smart? Bill Gates: Of course I am. Person: Count to ten. Bill Gates: 1, 2, 95, 98, 2000, Xp, Vista, 7, 8, 10! Person: Hmmmm...
I used to play games as kid on DOS and Windows 3.1, become a programmer too but the good part of the journey ended altogether after XP, it was the last good Windows. UIs have become hellish ugly and scrambled, bloat become unbearable, and the API changes for sake of change have made programmer's job a living hell.
@@jandjp9 Unfortunately not. Yeah you can remove a small portion of it, but even if you have every single disablable and removable feature disabled and removed, the core OS still hogs way too much RAM and CPU. WAY more than XP, not to even mention older releases, which even with ALL features enabled and installed took way less resources than the stripped-down 7.
Love this music! in my lifetime I used Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 and now I am using 11. I am proud to say I used Windows XP! the startup and shut down sounds are for me Funny, Nostalgic and iconic at the same time! if you ask me which I used the most time is the legendary XP (windows xp 2006-2014 that is how may years I used the XP! windows 7 2014-2016, windows 8 2016-2019, windows 10 2019-2021 and lastly windows 11 2021-present)
When I was 5 or younger we had XP and it worked very well and I would really like to run it again if I had another PC I don’t use.Btw windows XP looks like a windows for children with those colors and that’s also a reason I want to run it again on another PC.
@@htest8028 Nothing is safe. And I'm not using PC for something which shouldn't be. Since 2004 I had Virus only once, where I need help of my friend and that was even my fault. And new programs are not familier to the owners. Win 10 if you disagree while installing the new Win with some background information beeing taken for our "safety" installing will be stop. So that much from my side. World will no more like it was and privacy will be just word not meaning of truth ... Have a nice day :). PS: not angry don't worry just personal view ;)
It's amazing how the OS UI developed. 8 years (!) between the first Windows and 3.1 NT. Wow. Very cool visual history lesson... with an epic soundtrack :)
Yeah, MS-DOS. My first computer (for ding school homework) had MS-DOS 5.0 or 6.0. MS QBasic, WordPerfect - i believe version 5 -. Windows 3.1 which soon got upgraded to 3.11 plus the triangular ESS sound card 😆(was it the ES1868?) and the ubiquitous and unforgettable CANYON.MID... Those were the days! Forget "Grüne Idylle", er... "Bliss"! 🤣 Years later finally i discovered MS-DOS QuickBASIC, learned to program using Interrupts! Now THAT was fun!
Now, Windows Phone 11 was announced by us a few minutes ago. Don't think this is a fake account. I just want to go around RU-vid promoting this new channel.
Windows xp my childhood computer the days when I play flash games after school and roblox back in 2008 R. I. P. 2003 to 2013 (that's how long I have it)
@@ambrosetotos6844 lets math! Lets take an example, he would be 6 years old at 2003 then he played roblox at 11 yo in 2008 then now it's 2021. 2021-2008 = 13 yo. Now he could be somewhere at 24 yo
@TW1ST3D R3DN3CK It's not Vista that sucked, it's the computers that couldn't run it. Microsoft went too far ahead and tried to do something they couldn't.
My first was windows ME, I don't know how to mention abt of my feelings of that time. I didn't get words.. 😅 I really enjoyed that Era, 95 to 2000 it must be a golden period for everyone.
I'd love for a RU-vid channel to make an entire playlist covering the evolution of Windows, with each version of Windows getting it's own entire video. All I can find on RU-vid of Windows evolution is videos like this, that just show short, fast demonstrations of each version of Windows in one single video. I want some really in-depth stuff. Still a great video though and I appreciate the work put in to give us this video. Thanks!
Windows 98 and 98 Second Edition had it all, the best operating system of the time, nothing could compare to it. Then other new systems took the position as the best of all time such as the unforgettable Windows XP & Windows 7. Windows 10 the best modern operating system from Microsoft ever known and Windows 11 which is still trying to fit in the position as one of the best. Excellent video 👍🏽
The first laptop/computer that I ever used is also the one that I still use today. HP. Windows 7 was pre-installed. Don’t remember it. Then we went to Windows 8.1 until one night it updated to Windows 10. It’s been on 10 for like 6 or 7 years at this point. Unfortunately, due to age and not too much RAM, it’s been one of the slowest laptops ever for as long as I can remember. Plan on getting my own laptop, though! Hopefully for Christmas!
Please note that the Windows 95 that you showed was an updated version that came with Active Desktop after you have installed Internet Explorer 4. It's the IE4's integration that makes the changes. Without IE4, Windows 95 did look a bit more basic. Great seeing all of the Windows versions together in a compilation though! My favourite version was 2000 because of the UI but it was fine for gaming too
This video reminds me for a nostalgia! I really miss the old years so much! I really hate the future so much because it keeps advancing next days what happened with news, etc. I really want to go back to past because we want to get history be restored again and ever again! 😭
I have to admit the Windows '95 part made me a bit sad. A good friend of mine that I've know for over 40 years (he died a month ago from cancer at 71) gave me the disks he had for '95 when he bought the CD. He showed me everything it could do over 3.1. I was still gaining knowledge about computers and totally amazed at the update of things .
I imagine that this is what somebody in the low high class would feel like born in 1980, getting their first computer in 1986 at the age of six and growing up with windows.
My first pc (xt) has dos 5.0 and windows 3.1. 386 (sx/dx) had 95, but it just 33 Mb on HD, and install packaged in floppy. The 44 Mb version of 95 and 98/SE had my 486 (sx/dx/dx2/dx4) Pentium I at 133 Mhz was more powerfull for 2000. I dont like ME because it have driver compatibility problems. XP was the best for long time, and Windows Longhorn (PRE Vista) Windows Vista Longhorn was unfrendly for hardvers. Needed more ram, and some stuff. It deeded like Atomreactor. :) Windows 7.... 10 years, men i was old like Win7, but i think Win7 is best for all, in this days. I dont like Win8/8.1/10 but Win7 will be end.
Windows 1.0: The History Begin Windows NT: The Sign of Future WIndows 95: The Evolution in 90s Windows 2000: Rise of The 21st Century Windows ME: Nearly End of 90s Lifestyle Windows XP: The First in 21st Century Windows 7: The End of 2000s Decade Windows 8: The New Look Windows 8.1: The (Reorganized) New Look
Agreed, Windows XP was the most popular because it was so simple to use. Now you have damn Windows 10 and I don't even know how the fuck I change language. Took me 40 minutes to change the fucking language.
When windows 98 showed up . . Man, all those memories,, the feeling of clicking opening a folder, shutting down or logon windows sounds,inserting floppy disk and *click* sounds on it, installing an only MegaByte games, and all of those for me the best was changing windows 98 desktop themes.. Idk why it feels good to see those themes applied. Goodbye now im gonna cry :')
