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Windows XP

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  • Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates stands in front of the Windows XP logo
    In list of Windows versions: Windows XP

    Windows XP abandoned the long-used Windows 95 kernel (core software code) for a more powerful code base and offered a more practical interface and improved application and memory management. Another significant change was the addition of the Windows…

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  • Bill Gates
    In Microsoft Corporation: Windows evolution: XP, Vista, and Windows 7 (and 8, 9, 10, and 11)

    …perfectly serviceable, systems such as Windows XP (derived from the term Windows Experience). In addition, consumers were baffled by the numerous Vista options—Home (Basic or Premium), Ultimate, Business, and others—while business users (Microsoft’s core market) balked at its major change to the user interface and were unwilling to port their…

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  • Bill Gates unveiling Windows XP
    In Microsoft Windows

    With the 2001 release of Windows XP, Microsoft united its various Windows packages under a single banner, offering multiple editions for consumers, businesses, multimedia developers, and others. Windows XP abandoned the long-used Windows 95 kernel (core software code) for a more powerful code base and offered a more practical interface…

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