Windows xp service pack 2 support tools5/25/2023 Windows XP had a huge number of the features we now expect in an operating system, both for home and business users. Here are 10 features that helped arguably Microsoft's greatest OS cement its legendary status. These days, an iPad or smartphone are most people's first computer, so even though it's the fastest adopted version of Windows ever, Windows 10 is going to have to significantly redefine what it means to use a PC to have the same kind of impact Windows XP did. And because PC sales boomed after 2001 - by 2006 Windows XP was on 400 million computers - for many people, Windows XP was just what came on their first computer. Partly that's because of the long list of key features that showed up first (or worked properly for the first time) in Windows XP. It was a significant improvement over Windows ME, and Windows Vista was delayed so long by the problems Microsoft had building Longhorn (and devalued by the underspecified PCs many OEMs shipped it on when it did arrive), that in the public's mind, XP was Windows. XP's success was largely a matter of timing. For years, South Koreans had to stick with XP to run IE 6 for the ActiveX plugin that was the only way to shop online. Then there are the gamers who need it for compatibility. ![]() ![]() ![]() Different tracking services show different numbers, but whoever is measuring, XP is the OS that won't quit.īusinesses – and home users – who didn't want to replace PCs that were doing what they needed to do, even for the improvements of a new OS. And despite the fact that it was launched in 2001, there are still people running Windows XP (a few of them in government departments that should know better).ĭepending on whose measurements you believe, Windows 7 didn't overtake Windows XP as the most widely used version of Windows until 2011 or even the middle of 2012 even in 2014, you could still find it on as many as a third of all PCs around the world. ![]() It's been two years since Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP, meaning if you're still running it and malware writers find a way to attack you, you're on your own.
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