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What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
I liked the UIs of the entire era from 3.0 to 2000, really. I'm mostly using Windows 2000 as an example here because it runs so well in QEMU/KVM and that allows me to easily take screenshots.
Some of the following will sound absolutely trivial, but I think it's worth pointing out.
On the first successful boot of Windows 2000, you get to see this:
(Yes, I have the German version. It doesn't matter much for the sake of this blog post.)
We will talk more about that dialog later, but for now, here's what we have:
A non-distracting clean solid background color.
Some labelled icons on the desktop.
The taskbar with the "Start" button, some quicklaunch icons, some systray icons, and the clock.
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