{"id":8581,"date":"2021-10-25T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1371069"},"modified":"2021-10-25T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:00:16","slug":"windows-xp-is-20-but-will-microsoft-ever-learn-to-not-fix-what-isnt-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=8581","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP is 20! But will Microsoft ever learn to NOT fix what isn\u2019t broken?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoft\u2019s greatest achievements.<\/p>\n

As of August this year, Windows XP still maintained a greater market share than its successor, Windows Vista.<\/p>\n

When mainstream support for XP ended in April 2009, it was running on a huge 75% of Windows computers<\/a> and about 19% of people were still using XP when extended security support<\/a> finished in 2014. Microsoft provided security support in a few special cases, such as for military use, until 2019 \u2014 an incredible 18 years after the initial release.<\/p>\n

But what made XP excel? And what has Microsoft learned in the two decades since its release?<\/p>\n

The rise and rise of Windows XP<\/h2>\n

Windows XP launched on October 25, 2001, during a golden age at Microsoft when the company was achieving its highest revenues yet<\/a>, dominated the PC market, and had taken a strong lead over Netscape in the browser wars<\/a> (after the latter led the race through the 1990s). XP also came at a time when more people than ever were buying their first personal computer.<\/p>\n

These personal and business computers arrived with a full suite of Microsoft software pre-installed<\/a> and ready to use. As a result, the Windows operating system defined many people\u2019s computing experience.<\/p>\n

Built on the core of the highly successful Windows NT operating system (also the foundation for Windows 2000), Windows XP provided an option which, for the first time, looked and felt the same whether it was being used at home or at work.<\/p>\n

The prioritisation of users\u2019 needs in this way represented a watershed moment for Microsoft, and was a key ingredient in the long reign of XP. XP also featured several innovations<\/a> including the introduction of the Microsoft Error Reporting platform.<\/p>\n

Earlier versions of Windows had become infamous for the so-called \u201cblue screen of death<\/a>\u201d that appeared when the system encountered an error. XP replaced this with a small pop-up to collect data about the error and send it to Microsoft\u2019s engineers to help them improve the software.<\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/a>The original \u2018blue screen of death\u2019 from Windows NT would have been largely nonsensical for most people. The most current version of this screen includes a sad-face emoticon and a QR code for troubleshooting.<\/figcaption>