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[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] markz@suppo.fi 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 0 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I think it stayed similar from 95 - 98 - XP. Some XP started to show a 3D version, but there's the flat simpler one out there too.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

It's c:\windows\system32\logo.sys

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I was curious about this so I did a little historical lookup.

I can only ever find the modern "smooth 3d" Windows icon in any Windows XP image, screenshot, release event image, anything. XP has only ever used the modern 3d flag.

The last time Microsoft seemed to have used the square flag with tail Windows image was in Windows 2000 or ME, pre-XP launch.

I did find images of ME also using the 3d flag, but I can't confirm they're actually of original OE Microsoft branding. MS did still sell retail copies of 2000 and ME alongside XP for a short while, so it's possible they updated the older OS branding (not that anyone wanted 2000 or ME at that point). But why would they backtrack XP's branding??

I really have no clue where this XP image with the square flag is from, it's either art someone created to backdate its design aesthetic or its an AI hallucination.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You might be right. In doing a little more searching around (read that as brute forcing Google to do what I'm asking it to do after numerous tries) all I find of that kind of logo with XP seems to be either wallpapers, which are automatically suspect, and a few that call themselves "90s style" which infer they are made in the 95/98 style vs. the real XP. So yeah, probably.

[–] tjsauce@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

XP had the 3D logo, but the still had a classic theme, so for the most part it still looked and felt like Windows 9x more so than Vista could.

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Check out some enterprise artifacts. That stuff was slower to brand if I remember correctly.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I still have WinXP in a VM. Run it whenever I want to play Stars!

[–] tjsauce@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I just my Plasma theme resemble XP in CachyOS

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tjsauce@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The theme is Expose, you can get it from the theme settings, "Get New..."

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I'll definitely be looking for this in the morning. Thanks!

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago

Unfortunately it's not gone.

[–] anewfox@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

i remember when some idiot on facebook kept trying to argue with me that continuing to use xp a full 12 years after its EOL was fine, actually.

ever since i've wondered once in a while when his bank account got breached for the first time.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 29 minutes ago

It is, if you don't connect it to the internet.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

That type of thing is actually pretty common for fully offline equipment. Think things like CNC machines that get all their instruction files via USB. Nobody is replacing a quarter-million dollar machine just because the OS is old.

But, yeah, if you connect such a thing to the internet, ooooh boy.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Hell, until just four years ago the US nuclear arsenal ran on 8 inch floppy disks