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>>108413611 (OP)
UAC was a critical upgrade along with the modern security features in Vista and later. 64bit was also critical for addressing more than 4GB of RAM (XP64 was only half baked). While XP was 'comfy' in the sense that it was highly compatible and relatively stable, it was surpassed in every way by Windows 7.

>>108413611 (OP)
windows search

window snapping

>>108413611 (OP)
Hyper-V is pretty neat. It allows me to create virtual machines without the need for getting third-party software.

>>108413642
These are not features. There are architectural changes users don't interact with.

>>108413694
I mean we could then say Dual Screen support, Task Bar on both Monitors, Clock on both monitors task bar etc...


>>108413688
You're kidding right? Just use Everything.

>>108413611 (OP)
This is one of the dumbest threads I’ve ever seen on this site.

>>108413722
Define your goal posts in the OP so you don't have to move them later.

>>108413726
>Just use Everything
that's not a windows feature

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>>108413752
I mean what the every day user uses. Not the backend shit like Direct X 10,11 not Direct Storage, not UAC, not some random shit I don't even know about.

I mean the average User experience.

Start. Opening programing, Using Explorer, browsing your disk, doing OS stuff. Search for folders, images, browsing images, all that stuff.

So far people have legitimate points.

XP did not have any dual screen support.
XP did not have windows snapping.
XP did not do virtualisation.
XP did not have thumbnails of different sizes.

>>108413611 (OP)
Windows XP is still widely used in China.

>>108413611 (OP)
Realistically speaking the only core functions an OS needs to perform is to run the user's software and hardware. From a certain point of view you could say that these core features have been achieved for a very, very long time. On the other hand, an old OS like Windows XP cannot properly run modern software or modern hardware, as such these essential support features are only present in newer operating systems and people do use them a lot.

You're probably just talking about relatively superfluous shit like what the UI looks like, from that point of view I think XP is only lacking a few things. There is no easily accessible universal search (only added to the start menu in W7 IIRC) and I think it also doesn't really have proper multi-monitor support either, like multiple task bars, controlling how those work and so on.

>>108413611 (OP)
Office suite works best on windows, they gimped it on the mac version

I see the little news updates on my task bar telling me how poor my stocks are doing.

>>108413611 (OP)
In modern OSs, I've gotten very used to simply pressing the Windows key (or super+space for MacOS/Linux) and typing the name of whatever program I want to run, rather than mouse through menus and clicking shortcuts. Can't do that in XP as far as I know.
On the other hand, they removed themes from Windows past 7, and I'm still upset I can't even switch to the classic theme without a bunch of unreliable hacks.

In terms of features maybe not so much, but I'm wondering if you count using a new system API that implements the same feature except it's easier to write than the previous version.
Those are always what I look forward to in new versions of Windows. You still get comparability with the old APIs but can start targeting the new one with less headache and eventually get rid of the old code.

>>108413611 (OP)
Native iso support

>>108413611 (OP)
On the surface, no.

Under the hood as other people have pointed out, yes.

Plus you're on /g/ daily life normie shit doesn't matter here.

>>108413611 (OP)
yes I use the sidesnapping window features all the time, I think it didn't exist in xp era, I might be wrong tho

>>108413611 (OP)

Nothing wrong with Windows XP for some off-line system

besides it is requirement for 16bit coding!

>>108413807
yeah check out >>108413694
also it did do virtualization because hyper-v is old as shit and I'm pretty sure window snapping is the best feature in the world. see >>108414395 fucking troglodyte.

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>>108413611 (OP)
Security features
ISO mounting
Hyper-V
Other features so small I can't remember them but would notice quickly if they weren't there
I really wish someone would backport features from XP or patch in the XP interface to newer Windows versions though. We have the sources.

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>>108413807
UAC is an interactive feature so why shouldn't it be included?

>>108414528
>also it did do virtualization because hyper-v is old as shit
Hyper-V wasn't introduced until Windows 8

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>>108413642
You could just make a user account without administrator rights and if you needed administrator rights you used "run as", select administrator and put in the password.
That's literally what every sane person did before UAC.

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>>108413611 (OP)
Snipping Tool

>>108413611 (OP)
futexes

>>108414663
UAC is far superior

>>108414554
>secuuurityyyy

>>108414627
Hyper-V came out in 2008 you fucking idiot. SP2 supports it. I know you're a fucking mouthbreather because you don't even know about windows features and think that shell utilities or whatever are the same thing. try installing a windows feature some time.

>>108414554
use case for any of that shit?

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>>108414819
>>108414840
>>108414848
>>108414528
i fucking hate zoomers

>>108415180
says the techlet securitard

>>108413611 (OP)
XP didn't had a volume mixer and the task manager was trash.

>>108413611 (OP)
yes ahci, yes I have it running in XP too but it's not native and requires /g/owledge also 64 bit xp sucked ass, it's a 32 bit OS at heart that being said it's an essential on on offline lan along with 7 because of the great 32 bit apllications and games in it's library

>>108413696
>Hyper-V is pretty neat. It allows me to create virtual machines without the need for getting third-party software.
hyperV is somthing I've used a lot but it is worthless fuckology if you have a big library of games in the mix on cd and DVD, much nicer and easier to have an actual XP box

>>108415180
>i fucking hate zoomers
I don't, it's milennials who tend to be wrong, talentless and pricks, the zoomers love of PSPs endeared them to me. They have a meercat like quality where as milennials really are just reeeeeing frogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drzq1x0mqjo [Embed]

>>108413611 (OP)
Yes, DirectX 12.

>>108413726
>You're kidding right? Just use Everything.

'Everything' cannot display video thumbnails or format-specific metadata.

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>>108414663
oh, believe me... I tried that approach as a professional systems administrator
invariably, some program didn't play nice, and I had to give local admin accounts.

my solution was to use the 'dropmyrights' program from the sysinternals team which de-elevated programs to run as regular user.... so things like lookout, internet exploder, and other application could run in a safer manner. users didn't really understand it and was always an issue when dealing with 3rd party software vendors who expected full admin rights all the time

It wasn't until windows vista and the modern security paradigm implemented by microsoft that software vendors started correctly writing software to run as an un-privileged user:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/windows-installer-and-logo-requirements

but thanks for playing dunning kruger

>>108415652
That's (>>108414663) how I used Windows though and everyone I knew at the time who wasn't a total casual did too.

>>108415474
Combine it with Directory Opus and it can. Stock Explorer sucks anyways.

>>108413611 (OP)
I don't, i would even say that automatic driver installation is annoying. I always connect to the internet after i install drivers manually, because it will download some shit version automatically.
The only other function i can think of is maybe bluetooth, but i don't use bluetooth myself.
There are features that were removed like sane image preview application.
They also made customization impossible without third party tools - Windows 9x and XP had good builtin customization (classic styles, not actual msstyles). But if someone fancied non-classic it still was much easier to customize and there were tons of fan themes on the internet to choose from.
>>108413696
Hyper-v breaks qemu acceleration for me (WHPX). And used to break virtualbox acceleration for me when I still used it years ago at work. I needed to install Windows vm for SQL Server and it worked fine, but then I installed WSL2 on my host and then the VM was so slow that it was unusable. So it seems it's either Hyper-V (and WSL2) or QEMU/Virtualbox. But I tried new Virtualbox recently and it seems they added some KVM acceleration, which might work differently than old acceleration, maybe now it's compatible but QEMU is definitely not compatible.