<p> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/">Ars Technica</a> has <a href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/10/ten-years-of-windows-xp-how-longevity-became-a-curse.ars">a retrospective about Windows XP&#39;s long life</a> that I found very interesting.</p> <p> Until reading it, I couldn&#39;t have told you when XP was released. I was out of the Windows biz by then—all of my personal work machines had been running Linux for two or three years by that point, and I had given up all but the most peripheral contact with Windows when I left the University of Miami in &#39;99.</p>

<p> <div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vPnehDhGa14?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;" title="YouTube video"></iframe> </div> </p> <p> The one thing the video glosses over is that there&#39;s no way that you would ever do this in real life, since you were almost guaranteed to have had to reinstall Windows at some point.</p> <p> <a href="http://mischeathen.com/2011/03/im-having-nerd-nostalgia-palpitations.html">Heard it from Chet</a></p>