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		mey on April 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start ... Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 were both very good operating systems. My memory is hazy, but I feel like Windows XP didn't really hit it's stride until SP 1 or 2, when USB really stabilized.

CRConrad on May 1, 2023 [–]

IIRC, XP SP3 was the canonical “use this” version.

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