- Yes
- No
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Here is an experimental Poll I made 
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No. Served more of a cultural impact rather than a big milestone (as Glosswired said). More important OSes are Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows Vista and Windows NT 3.1.
2000 - First Windows NT version to become successful even on the consumer market, compared to Windows NT 4.
Vista - First major visual overhaul since Windows 95.
Windows NT 3.1 - Kickstarted the NT Kernel
Windows 95 - Introduced the base of the Windows interface as we know it today.
Windows XP was still pretty similar to Windows 2000, therefore not that significant, outside of visual aspects.
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Itâs more of a meme then a piece of history.
Sure it was only a meme in 2016
Yeah it was important, If XP never existed, what would have been present day windows?
Without XP, we wouldnât have
- Themes
- User Friendliness on NTâs UI.
- A large market share.
- plus other stuff that improves the OS
We would have been stuck with our MEs and our 2000s until a very different Vista would have been released.
Windows could have been pretty much dead without XP.
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not that having windows 2000 by 2001 would be that bad, or even by 2006
and i believe XP was the first major UI overhaul since 95, not vista
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I agree, the biggest changes to the UI goes to WinXP and Win8
Vista should count (for UI), Canât count for 7 because it was just a modified Aero. also canât count for 10 because itâs still incomplete, even after almost 4 years of being released.
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Vista is basically glossy winXP
Vista introduced many changes under and over the hood including WDDM 1.0, WinFX, Aero, DirectX 10, Explorer redesign, Sidebar, new cursor set (yes, iâll count this since the xp cursor has been used since the windows 95 days), Search indexing, and others.
Some other stuff include introduction of the new windows logo which would be used from 2005 to 2012, while the xp branding only came on xp. And then theres the whole new kernel.
Windows XP introduced a new start menu and a new theme, some changes to explorer, control panel, a new sound scheme, DirectX8.1 and new icons.
so no, this is to prove vista is NOT basically a glossy version of Windows xp.
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I can agree with Megadethâs comment. XP was still pretty big, other than
- a screwed up marketing campaign that was called âprepare to flyâ due to 9/11, took millions of dollars for changing the campaign to âyes you canâ.
- It included IE6, which was one of the last steps into making the browser the most hated of the 00s.
- UI can be seen childish to 9x/NT users.
- Needed 3 service packs (and 1 revision of a service pack) to improve itself,
- The UI wasnât that complete, XPize helped it by a lot but IE7 (IE8 as well) and WMP 11 had a vista-like UI.
Vista improved a lot, Icons that were used until early builds of Windows 10 that were also time-less, One of the best default themes in Windows history, Introduction of Aero, No UI inconsistencies, and some more 
yep, all of that within a OS that was stuck in development hell and it needed 2 service packs to improve.
@anon74637124, please add a âmaybeâ option in the poll.
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Without XP we wouldnât have your beloved aero and other shit that was improved from XP to vista
Without Vista you mean, XP never had any Aero, it was Vista and 7, not XP.
we indeed could have it, it would happen eventually.
Same thing with metro, it all happened eventually due to the flat design trend starting by 2011
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Umm i want say yes because is my first windows get one computer in december 2001 (9 years old)
XP is very one best in 2000s because better for WIFI, more pretty than 2000 , more stable than 9X/ME for public people, and very stable
XP is vey popular and long time life because for professional end support and April 2019 and Public in 2014
I changed my idea but the poll seems to have been locked. goddamnit