this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
476 points (99.6% liked)

Technology

75768 readers
2474 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Toes@ani.social 15 points 11 hours ago

In my humble opinion that was probably the best windows of its era. Windows XP sp2 was the most important change with its own firewall.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Windows 2000 was the hammer. Windows XP was the hammer dressed as a Teletubby, with a 6-inch chain attaching it to an activation anvil.