"Software shouldn't be developed for development's sake."

Probably new training contracts are a good incentive to change things every now and then. Win8 and beyond UIs is the best possible example of a bullet meeting a foot: for the first time I found actually easy to convert some non tech people to use Linux, which in the XP era was at least for common users next to impossible. Messing up the UI wasn't an error, they planned it, but in the end the change was so radical that it could bite them in the butt one day.

And improved filesystem support and an improved CPU scheduler and a redesigned security model and a new network stack and an accelerated compositor for larger/faster displays to work and DPI awareness and proper support for SSDs and UEFI boot and...

Point being by the time you actually make XP into something modern it turns into the thing you think you hate.

> Software shouldn't be developed for development's sake.

Well said.

I prefer Windows 2000 myself, but other than that, couldn't agree more.

> and more than 4GB of RAM

https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10547

You and Steve Gibson! (and me, and anyone who doesn't like the crap MS is trying to pull with the constant spying).