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The first, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, was intended for IA-64 systems; as IA-64 usage declined on workstations in favor of AMD's x86-64 architecture, the Itanium edition was discontinued in January 2005. [57] A new 64-bit edition supporting the x86-64 architecture, called Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, was released in April 2005. [58]
Windows XP: Whistler: October 25, 2001 NT 5.1 Windows XP Starter; Windows XP Home; Windows XP Professional; 2600 IA-32: April 8, 2014 Windows XP 64-bit Edition; Itanium: Freestyle: October 29, 2002 Windows XP Media Center Edition; IA-32: Harmony: September 30, 2003 Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004; Symphony: October 12, 2004 Windows XP ...
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.
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 ...
Windows Messenger is a discontinued instant messaging client included in Windows XP. [1] [4] Designed for use by both corporate and home users, it was originally created, in 2001, as a streamlined and integrated version of MSN Messenger. [5] It was upgraded several times when it was made available for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. [6]
With Windows XP, the Start button has been updated to support Fitts's law.To help the user access a wider range of common destinations more easily from a single location, the Start menu was expanded to two columns; the left column focuses on the user's installed applications, while the right column provides access to the user's documents, and system links which were previously located on the ...
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 ...