Windows XP removed support for PC-98, i486 and SGI Visual Workstation 320 and 540 and will only run on 32-bit x86 CPUs and devices that use BIOS firmware. As a result, Windows XP is the first consumer edition of Windows not based on the Windows 95 kernel or MS-DOS. However, in January 2000, both projects were scrapped in favor of a single OS codenamed "Whistler", which would serve as a single platform for both consumer and business markets. An updated version of Windows 2000 was also initially planned for the business market. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Windows 2000 for high-end and business users and Windows Me for home users, and is available for any devices running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000, or Windows Me that meet the new Windows XP system requirements.ĭevelopment of Windows XP began in the late 1990s under the codename " Neptune", built on the Windows NT kernel and explicitly intended for mainstream consumer use. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. Hope they appreciate that gift.Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. Again, thank you very much! It is people like you who leave this place much better than you found it for our descendants. If there were more generous people like you, this old world would be a much better place in which to live. One last thing, in my almost 70 years of life I've found the world has far more takers than givers. Again, thanks a million for your help!!!j I miss the good old days of just buying software without so many complications of having to ask the suppler for permission to use it. Don't expect MS to change their pattern and will stop activating those OS's sometime hence. Now with W7 off MS support, hope something like this comes along when that machine tanks. Never is it good to look a gift horse in the mouth.Thank you very much. You saved my butt and I cannot thank you enough!! Don't know why or really care why it works. I been sweating what to do since all the old software, a fortune spent years ago, I still use it does not work on VM xp emulation on later OS. All Wpa did was punish paying customers and call all of us thieves and it still does. Activation would not take it seems Microsoft is not doing that on XP anymore. I had to change the hard drive in my trusty XP prof machine and reload from the 160.00 dollar genuine XP install disk.
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