Cherry-picked anecdotes are worthless. Few if any people glorified Panther when ...

freehunter · on Feb 18, 2018

>Stop dismissing legitimate complaints just because you worship "new and shiny"

Yeah, right after you stop dismissing important security updates as "new and shiny".

chris_wot · on Feb 18, 2018

No, he’s right. Whilst there was a bit of criticism of Windows XP, most people were fine with it and it was widely praised. Same with Windows 98. In fact, Windows ME, Windows Vista and Windows 8 were widely criticised when they came out for good reasons, and Windows 7 and Windows 10 were widely praised.

sbuk · on Feb 19, 2018

> Whilst there was a bit of criticism of Windows XP, most people were fine with it and it was widely praised.

It didn't start out that way. It was heavily criticized in the first instance. Certainly until SP1 was released.