[bluedino]

Was this peak Windows UI?

I would say so, but the Active Dekstop stuff wasn't the right move.

Fisher-price came next, with Windows XP. At least you could easily switch back to classic.

And then Windows 8, we won't even talk about that.

[rib3ye]

Maybe more importantly, Win2k was the first windows version actually WORKED in a predictable way after years of unstable post-Win3.1 (Win95 and onward) production releases.

[ConceptJunkie]

Yeah, but I would still usually see Explorer crash within an hour of a fresh Win2k installation. Windows 2000 was peak UI, but it wasn't peak Windows. That was Windows 7. And Windows 7 was advanced enough that you could still go back to the Windows 2000 UI.

[cake-rusk]

Windows Vista / 7 was peak UI for me.

[Telaneo]

> I would say so, but the Active Dekstop stuff wasn't the right move.

Even so, you could completely ignore it if you wanted to!

[petilon]

The title bar of windows in Windows XP was Fisher-Price. But I thought the rest was OK.

[hnlmorg]

I hated XP themes too

I felt the taskbar was the ugliest part of the themes

[Dwedit]

I think Windows XP looks very nice if you install the Royale theme. It's a shiny and glassy version of the default XP style.

[kreddor]

I really liked the luna silver and olive green themes. They were not too bad to look at.

[madaxe_again]

Almost. The NT5 RCs, which became windows 2000, were better IMO - not massive differences but it hadn’t been slobbered upon by marketing yet.