10 Years of Windows XP

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @10:14AM from the time-to-defenestrate-it dept.

Julie188 writes "Windows XP – the XP stood for 'Experience' — was released October 25, 2001. With Windows XP, Microsoft hoped to have one codebase that would span everything from consumers to corporate desktops. Microsoft was fairly ambitious with XP. There was an embedded version that went everywhere, from phones to information kiosks. Banks in particular embraced it as a way to migrate off IBM's dead-end-but-once-great OS/2. Consumers have been quicker to ditch XP for Windows 7 while businesses hem and haw and slowly test a decade's-worth of custom apps on Windows 7. Some estimates show that XP still has a hold on 48% of the Windows market."

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Re:Wrong by arth1 · 2011-10-25 10:17 · Score: 4, Funny

XP was for eXperimental Prototype as in test aircraft. The kind that crashed a lot.
No, I'm pretty certain that they only crashed once...
Re:"XP" by Cryacin · 2011-10-25 10:51 · Score: 3, Funny

Well at any rate, it stood for a much better pair than Windows ME. (Might Explode)

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Re:"XP" by Bucky24 · 2011-10-25 11:35 · Score: 3, Funny

What do you mean might explode? :P

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