Microsoft ended support for Windows XP almost 10 years ago. If you’re wondering what this version would look like today, we bring you Windows XP 2024 Edition from prolific designer AR 4789, who left us with other “gems” like his vision of the future of Windows 12.

The good and bad cadence of the Windows operating system has been repeated almost exactly at Microsoft. After widespread dissatisfaction with Windows Millennium Windows XP was a huge success almost from its inception. The fiasco that came later, the not-so-bad Windows Vista, and the expansion of technical support to stop Linux netbooks caused the “Windows XP case”, where users kept it even without official technical support. Maybe that’s why it was Windows with the most temporary presence to date.

Windows XP 2024 Edition retains the look and color scheme of the original XPalong with the iconic Bliss wallpaper, but like every modern version, it includes a number of features from Microsoft’s latest development, Windows 11, such as quick settings and dark mode, which looks spectacular.

The default start menu looks the same as it always has, but we see a renewed file explorer along with other major components such as the “premiere” because it didn’t exist then, the Edge web browser. Users can log into this modern XP using a local account as well as a Microsoft ID account.

Artificial intelligence, the technology of the moment, was science fiction in the XP era, and if Windows 11 has Copilot, this Windows XP 2024 Edition heralds the return of Rover, Microsoft’s search assistant. As with his other concepts, instead of just showing the type of features we might see in an alternative operating system, the designer also take care of the installation and configuration process to make them more animated and with more user interaction.

Windows XP 2024 Edition exists only in the mind of a designer who has dazzled us with his creative abilities in the past. But it looks great…