Windows XP: Looking back, looking forward - Windows 7 Forums

The end of XP is a watershed moment. It's truly the most successful operating system in the history of personal computers. Windows 3.x was great in its day; it gave mass-market, affordable PCs the graphical prowess Microsoft needed to compete with the more expensive Macintosh computers. But it lasted only five years, from 1990 to 1995. XP's reign was twice as long! So Windows XP's near-decade reign is impressive. Rolled out in 2001, it blended the familiar interface conventions of Windows 98 with the heavy-duty, business-oriented underpinnings of Windows NT (New Technology). The result was a hybrid operating system that looked good, was easy to use, and — most important — was far more stable than its predecessors. Microsoft originally planned a five-year life span for XP. But delays and missteps with XP's successor products (Vista, for example) plus huge upgrade resistance from users forced Microsoft to extend XP's life again and again. Now, with Windows 7 proving itself...

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