• • • Windows XP is a produced by as part of the family of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and broadly released for retail sale on October 25, 2001. Development of Windows XP began in the late 1990s as ', an operating system (OS) built on the which was intended specifically for mainstream consumer use. An updated version of was also originally planned for the business market; however, in January 2000, both projects were scrapped in favor of a single OS codenamed 'Whistler', which would serve as a single OS platform for both consumer and business markets.

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As such, Windows XP was the first consumer edition of Windows not to be based on. Upon its release, Windows XP received generally positive reviews, with critics noting increased performance and stability (especially in comparison to, the previous Windows operating system), a more intuitive user interface, improved hardware support, and expanded multimedia capabilities. However, some industry reviewers were concerned by the new licensing model. Extended support for Windows XP ended on April 8, 2014, after which the operating system to most users.

As of January 2019, 2.18% of Windows PCs run Windows XP, and the OS is still popular in some countries with up to 28% of the Windows share. Main article: In the late 1990s, initial development of what would become Windows XP was focused on two individual products; ', which was reportedly intended to succeed the future, and ', which was reportedly a consumer-oriented operating system using the architecture, succeeding the -based. However, the projects proved to be.

In January 2000, shortly prior to the official release of Windows 2000, technology writer reported that Microsoft had shelved both Neptune and Odyssey in favor of a new product codenamed 'Whistler', after, as many Microsoft employees skied at the ski resort. The goal of Whistler was to unify both the consumer and business-oriented Windows lines under a single, Windows NT platform: Thurrott stated that Neptune had become 'a black hole when all the features that were cut from [Windows ME] were simply re-tagged as Neptune features.

And since Neptune and Odyssey would be based on the same code-base anyway, it made sense to combine them into a single project'. At on July 13, 2000, Microsoft announced that Whistler would be released during the second half of 2001, and also unveiled the first preview build, 2250. The build notably introduced an early version of Windows XP's visual styles system. Microsoft released the first beta build of Whistler, build 2296, on October 31, 2000. Subsequent builds gradually introduced features that users of the release version of Windows XP would recognise, such as, the system and the desktop background. On February 5, 2001, Microsoft officially announced that Whistler would be known as Windows XP, where XP stands for 'eXPerience'. Release [ ] In June 2001, Microsoft indicated that it was planning to, in conjunction with and other PC makers, spend at least 1 billion US dollars on marketing and promoting Windows XP.