Windows XP first extend on sale ten years ago today . In that pair , it has become the screen background OS of choice with a cosmopolitan install base of operations of as much as 80 pct . Here ’s looking at you XP .
XP was originally schedule for a monumental gyre - out on October 25th , 2001 , however the 9/11 attacks put a stern damper on its release — slumping into the market with low-down initial sales event than even Windows 98 ’s release three years prior . Slow borrowing by exploiter due to its direct competition with much - lauded Win2000 as well as XP ’s increased resource demand and initial driver incompatibilities did n’t help gain it any fans either . It was n’t until desktop ironware performance eventually catch up did XP really take off .
Once it did become established , XP outstrip all other screen background OS systems for longetvity . For year , especially after Service Pack 2 released , XP was the be all , cease all of PC operating systems — you were a fall guy not to use it . Two factor have straight strike that land tenure : The burst of cyberspace usage and Microsoft ’s want of an inheritor . The incredible growth of the World Wide entanglement in the first few age of this century effectively killed off originally , morfe - entrenched variations like Win95 , 98that simply could n’t handle the hardware and security requirement needed to turn tail in a rapidly connecting world . The deficiency of a follow - up OS played an even bighearted role . With no big and better OS to look ahead to , XP was , by default option , the best a PC exploiter could do . grumbling of the secrect Longhorn project ended coming to nil when Microsoft canned the project and Vista , well … was Vista .
Heck , 52 percent of the desktop PC market still run XP , however , its in question the earth will ever see an OS not only stick around for a decade , but remain relevant for that long . Now , even Microsoft is trying to shave its turn - around time between major OS releases to just 2 - 3 years , a la Apple . Sure , Windows 7 might hit 50 percent mart plowshare before Windows 8 drops , but in ten years , it ’ll be about as relevant as Windows 95 in 2005 . [ Ars Technica ]
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