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Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
They were the best Windows versions, but Microsoft was not cool. They were still monopolistic and anti-competitive as fuck. They still actively killed smaller companies, they still bribed politicians, etc.
I will grant you that I may be reflecting my oppinion on XP and 7 on Microsoft as a whole.