Windows XP has private funeral
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 04/08/2014 10:56 AM
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In a private ceremony in the bowels of Microsoft, XP was allowed to expire. It was 12 year and 7 months old.
Office 2003 also quietly passed away, to less fanfare.
Bill Gates, the chief software architect at Microsoft, said at the launch of XP in August of 2001: “Simply put, Windows XP is the best operating system Microsoft has ever built."
Special editions without Windows Media Player were later sold in Europe and Korea, after Microsoft was fined $784 million for exploiting its monopoly in operating systems to break into media players. But what Windows XP offered was the ability to surf the Web, use Office and some gaming software, and hook up a broad range of USB peripherals.
Windows XP totaled 45 million lines of code, the work of hundreds of Microsoft programmers. It will be missed.
Office 2003 also quietly passed away, to less fanfare.
Bill Gates, the chief software architect at Microsoft, said at the launch of XP in August of 2001: “Simply put, Windows XP is the best operating system Microsoft has ever built."
Special editions without Windows Media Player were later sold in Europe and Korea, after Microsoft was fined $784 million for exploiting its monopoly in operating systems to break into media players. But what Windows XP offered was the ability to surf the Web, use Office and some gaming software, and hook up a broad range of USB peripherals.
Windows XP totaled 45 million lines of code, the work of hundreds of Microsoft programmers. It will be missed.
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