I am a little bit younger than you, and I do remember XP looking weird to begin with, but there is no doubt for me that the classic design is better and prettier than this modern flat stuff.
I know, because I accidentally ran the test on myself when I picked up a test devices at one point and marved at how beautiful the new iOS was, then I realized that I had picked up a super old device that was running iOS 6, which was the last one before the flat era.
XP was a huge upgrade over 98, and Win 7 was the last good operating system MS has made. If I could get a security/stability/driver upgrade to Win xp so that it works with modern hardware, I might still have been a Windows user today.
Except WSL Microsoft hasn't added any useful features to Windows that I can recall or are excited about since.
That said, I don't think you should put too much into the exact version of Windows emulated here - had it been 98, 95 or even Windows for Workgroups it would have been equally awesome.
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I am a little bit younger than you, and I do remember XP looking weird to begin with, but there is no doubt for me that the classic design is better and prettier than this modern flat stuff.
I know, because I accidentally ran the test on myself when I picked up a test devices at one point and marved at how beautiful the new iOS was, then I realized that I had picked up a super old device that was running iOS 6, which was the last one before the flat era.
XP was a huge upgrade over 98, and Win 7 was the last good operating system MS has made. If I could get a security/stability/driver upgrade to Win xp so that it works with modern hardware, I might still have been a Windows user today.
Except WSL Microsoft hasn't added any useful features to Windows that I can recall or are excited about since.
That said, I don't think you should put too much into the exact version of Windows emulated here - had it been 98, 95 or even Windows for Workgroups it would have been equally awesome.