To prevent piracy, Microsoft required customers who built their own machines or upgraded to activate their copy of Windows XP over the internet or by telephone. There were also growing pains for Windows XP’s brand new activation system, which was a first in Windows at the time. But some of you might remember what XP was like before 2004’s Service Pack 2 release: a buggy mess with driver problems and huge security holes. Sure, after all the fixes, Windows XP was one of the greatest versions of Windows of all time. RELATED: 35 Years of Microsoft Windows: Remembering Windows 1.0 #5: Windows XP (Initial Release, 2001) Luckily for Microsoft, things got better: The average PC became powerful enough to handle Windows smoothly by the early 1990s. In 1986, The New York Times reviewed Windows 1.0 and wrote that “running Windows on a PC with 512K of memory is akin to pouring molasses in the Arctic.” Add in poor third-party support, and you had a true dud. As a result, Windows 1.0 pushed the limits of a typical 1985 PC’s capabilities at the time, making it a memory hog that was too slow to use.
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