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XP was the first consumer OS with the NT kernel which was far far more reliable than win32 in the previous ones. I remember people bragging that they could leave their computer running and it wouldn't crash -and that seemed crazy. I used windows 2000 for many years as a stripped down XP, but not many people got it. I think the interface peaked around 95, but the kernel was terribly unreliable.
My main focus (apart from zero security and horrible multi user) was all the anti consumer additions they put into it.
XP was so bad, that I left it for linux shortly after it came out.