You might be right. In doing a little more searching around (read that as brute forcing Google to do what I’m asking it to do after numerous tries) all I find of that kind of logo with XP seems to be either wallpapers, which are automatically suspect, and a few that call themselves “90s style” which infer they are made in the 95/98 style vs. the real XP. So yeah, probably.
You might be right. In doing a little more searching around (read that as brute forcing Google to do what I’m asking it to do after numerous tries) all I find of that kind of logo with XP seems to be either wallpapers, which are automatically suspect, and a few that call themselves “90s style” which infer they are made in the 95/98 style vs. the real XP. So yeah, probably.
XP had the 3D logo, but the still had a classic theme, so for the most part it still looked and felt like Windows 9x more so than Vista could.