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Microsoft Windows XP celebrates its 10th anniversary
Still going strong
Wed Aug 24 2011, 10:15
IT WAS 10 YEARS AGO TODAY that Microsoft shipped the first copies of its Windows XP operating system to PC manufacturers.
As reported by The INQUIRER's sister IT news web site V3.co.uk, it is still going strong. Forrester research suggest that nearly 60 per cent of PC systems continue to run Windows XP.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Windows XP, V3 is posting a copy of the original 2001 review of the operating system from sister publication IT Week. µ
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Microsoft should celebrate the 10th of XP in high style with a Service Pack 4 rollup that includes IE8 and all the little .NETs, 1 thru 4. I refurbish a lot of XP systems and get them back into use, because the demand remains high. It sure would be great to install a single 300MB mess of updates rather than the stupidity of updating, rebooting, updating, rebooting, ad nauseam as at present.
Microsoft also seems to have broken the Windows Update for XP, making it MUCH more difficult to use. Intentionally? Could be... Ben
As I've mentioned before, main reason M$ broke with IBM is because there's no money in selling an OS that's sufficient, so they passed off several versions of single-tasking DOS as the latest and greatest, while illegally undercutting the vastly superior, compatible but all new OS/2 -- much of which M$ wrote!
OS/2 is STILL sufficient. It's not just another version of DOS, it's the direct parent of the whole NT line, only done right, plus a real systems language of REXX. I'm using it every day, much of it dated from 1993. Reliable as a brick. Smoother in operation than XP, for sure: I've run both on exact same hardware.
Let me give a practical example of how advanced OS/2 was and IS: Remember SP1 to update XP for hard drives greater than 137G? Some 300M and an hour of thrashing, as I recall. -- Well, OS/2 only required replacing one small file (75K) to use the new 48-bit LBA spec. Otherwise (except for M$ imposed 64G limit on HPFS volumes, which JFS gets around), OS/2 was always designed WAY ahead of hardware.