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History and background

Windows XP

The story of windows begins with a very different operating system developed by Microsoft for the first IBM personal computer and referred to as MS-DOS or PC-DOS. Which was released on August 1981. Now Microsoft has come with powerful operating system called ‘Windows Vista'. The one before Vista was Windows XP.

Windows XP was released on October 25, 2001, which is available in Home, business desktops, notebook computers and media centers editions. The letter ‘XP' stand for experience. Codenamed ‘whistler' after Whistler, British Columbia, as many Microsoft employees skied at the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort during its development, windows XP is the successor to both windows 200 and windows ME, and is the first consumer-oriented operating system produced by Microsoft to be built on the Windows NT kernel and architecture.(Wikipedia)

The most common editions of the operating system are Windows XP Home Edition, which is targeted at home......

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