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Fast user switching allows additional users to log into a Windows XP machine without existing users having to close their programs and log out. Although only one user at the time can use the console (i.e., monitor, keyboard, and mouse), previous users can resume their session once they regain control of the console. [20]
Release date Based on Windows NT Embedded 4.0: Impala: August 30, 1999: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Windows XP Embedded: Mantis: November 28, 2001: Windows XP Professional Windows Embedded Standard 2009 — December 14, 2008: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Windows Embedded Standard 7: Quebec: 2010: Windows 7 Windows Embedded 8 — 2013: Windows 8 ...
Windows XP has been criticized for its vulnerabilities due to buffer overflows and its susceptibility to malware such as viruses, trojan horses, and worms.Nicholas Petreley for The Register notes that "Windows XP was the first version of Windows to reflect a serious effort to isolate users from the system, so that users each have their own private files and limited system privileges."
Windows XP [55] Windows XP 64-bit Edition 2002 [56] Novell NetWare 6.0 2001–11: 2001–12: OpenBSD 3.0: OS/2 4.52 2002–01: Windows CE 4.x: JX microkernel for Java Sanos microkernel [57] for net appliances K42 microkernel for NUMA machines: 2002–02: 2002–03: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS: 2002–04: SUSE Linux 8.0: Plan 9 Fourth ...
Windows 1.0, the first independent version of Microsoft Windows, released on November 20, 1985, achieved little popularity. The project was briefly codenamed "Interface Manager" before the windowing system was implemented—contrary to popular belief that it was the original name for Windows and Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows ...
The introduction of Windows XP aimed to unify the consumer-oriented Windows 9x series with the architecture introduced by Windows NT, a change which Microsoft promised would provide better performance over its DOS-based predecessors. Windows XP would also introduce a redesigned user interface (including an updated Start menu and a "task ...
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows XP 64-bit Edition Version 2003 are the only releases of Windows XP to include Internet Information Services 6.0, which matches the version shipped with Windows Server 2003; other versions of XP include 5.1. 64-bit versions of Windows XP are also immune to certain types of viruses and malware that ...
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. Based on ...