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Diagram representing the main editions of Windows XP. It is based on the category of the edition (grey) and codebase (black arrow). Windows XP was released in two major editions on launch: Home Edition and Professional Edition. Both editions were made available at retail as pre-loaded software on new computers and as boxed copies.
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 ("Harmony", September 2003) [25] Windows XP Service Pack 2 upgrades earlier versions of MCE to this one. Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 ("Symphony", October 2004) [26] is the first edition of MCE available to non-Tier 1 system builders. Among other things it includes support for Media Center Extenders ...
Windows Classic is a visual style that is built-in to the operating system, utilizing the classic Windows look-and-feel that was used in previous versions of Windows prior to Windows XP. Officially titled "Windows Classic style", it is less CPU-intensive and offers better performance [ 11 ] (which is also the reason why it is used by default on ...
Planned to be a successor to Windows 2000; merged with Neptune to form Whistler. Whistler: Windows 2002 Windows XP: Named after Whistler Blackcomb, where design retreats were held. Mantis — Windows XP Embedded: Named after the Mantis shrimp. [24] Freestyle — Windows XP Media Center Edition — [28] [29] Harmony — Windows XP Media Center ...
A machine running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition cannot be directly upgraded to Windows Vista because the 64-bit Vista DVD mistakenly recognizes XP x64 as a 32-bit system. Windows XP x64 does qualify the customer to use an upgrade copy of Windows Vista or Windows 7, however it must be installed as a clean install.
The image was used extensively by Microsoft for promoting Windows XP and their $200 million advertising campaign. [2] [28] Since the origins of Bliss were not widely known after the release of Windows XP, there had been considerable speculation about where the landscape was. Some guesses have included locations in France, Ireland, Switzerland ...
In the late 1990s, initial development of what would become Windows XP was focused on two individual products; "Odyssey", which was reportedly intended to succeed the future Windows 2000, and "Neptune", which was reportedly a consumer-oriented operating system using the Windows NT architecture, succeeding the MS-DOS-based Windows 98.
MSSTYLES is a Microsoft file format, that contains the bitmaps and metadata for the Windows XP skinning engine, first introduced in Windows Whistler Build 2250. [2] The engine, in its unmodified state, only fully applies .msstyles files that have been digitally signed by Microsoft, such as Luna or the Zune theme. The default Windows XP style is ...