For one thing it is probably the best OS that Microsoft ever put out.
For another, I was working at Best Buy and two days before 9/11 we came in on Sunday morning and got "indoctrinated" about Windows XP: all that it could do, the new features, etc. It was like attending a church service! And then of course two days later the attacks came.
I'm forever going to associate WinXP with that particular time in my life.
“I’ll always have memories about Windows XP.”
I have an XP VM I still use.
Still got one running on my home network. In fact, I use it as a hub to connect via RDP to three other Windows machines (one of which is a remote server via the internet).
I even connect to it remotely via the internet for screen share sessions.
So far, so good!