.. and if it's Windows XP that you're talking about of course the articles about it are gonna be old.. XP has been out since 2001.. And there have been 2 major OS releases after that so yeah..

Anyway, what do you mean by "exciting" anyways??

If you want widgets, clocks.. etc. I remember some people ported Windows Vista's sidebar to Windows XP, so google that and you should be able to find such thing...