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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