I was only 11 years old when this OS was released so you can imagine I pretty much spent much of my teen years using XP machines other than Red Hat Linux of course.ĭespite its age, XP continues to live on in embedded systems like ATMs, factory and medical machines where replacement costs and re-certification (timelines) makes them infeasible to be replaced in the near future.

Released in October 2001, it is almost 15 years old today. This page here also puts XP’s length of support in perspective with other Microsoft OSes. This was unlike WinXP which was updated up to its final moments and even had an emergency patch after its support ended. *I say “technically” as that was when Microsoft finally declared Win 1.0 obsolete but I doubt Microsoft was updating Win 1.0 during its final years. The number one rank is technically* held by Windows 1.0 at 16 years from 1985 to 2001. Support by Microsoft finally ended on 8 April 2014 after a record-setting 12.5 years. Windows XP is the second-longest supported operating system (OS) in Microsoft’s history. (This is a long ~2900 words post, I recommend reading this from a tablet or computer)

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