My "new" computer is only ten years old so doesn't have a floppy disk drive. CD drives are going the way of the buggy whip too. Kids don't even have computers, they walk around with a thing in their hands. In a few years those will be replaced by a micro implant where their biological brain was before it atrophied.
*** Based on FR comments at the time XP was crap, so I skipped it. ***
Not that it matters much anymore, but Windows XP was a decent, if insecure, operating system. If you kept it up to date with the latest Service Packs and regular updates in between, you had a pretty good system. It ran well on almost every computer out there.
Vista stunk because Microsoft loaded it down so much overhead that it couldn’t reliably run on the bargain laptops and desktops that Dell (and others) were pumping out like hot cakes. Windows 7 was considered by most to be pretty good. 8 was another Vista. So basically Microsoft puts out 1 passable O/S followed by 1 or 2 crappy ones. Your rolling the dice with Microsoft if you are an early adopter of their OS products.