Windows XP turns 11, still not dead yet

I still use Windows XP Mode for my 16 bit games and apps. XP will always have a home in my future PC purchases.

King Arthur said:

Slartybart said:

And to extrapolate - every Windows OS after Win98 benefited from Windows ME (1st NT based Windows).

The first NT family of Windows was Windows NT 3.1 while Windows ME was the last of the Windows 9x family.

My apologies if I came off as a smarty pants, I just wanted to correct your information for the benefit of future readers. :)

Slartybart said:

No apologies necessary, but... NT and Windows were two different beasts.

Wiki said:

Windows NT 3.1 (Microsoft marketing wanted Windows NT to appear to be a continuation of Windows 3.1) arrived in Beta form to developers at the July 1992 Professional Developers Conference in San Francisco.[5] Microsoft announced at the conference its intentions to develop a successor to both Windows NT and Windows 3.1's replacement (Windows 95, codenamed Chicago), which would unify the two into one operating system. This successor was codenamed Cairo.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP—albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system’s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

Parts of Cairo have still not made it into Windows as of 2009 - specifically, the WinFS file system, which was the much touted Object File System of Cairo. Microsoft announced that they have discontinued the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista[6] and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and technologies, notably Microsoft SQL Server.

King Arthur said:

The first NT family of Windows was Windows NT 3.1 while Windows ME was the last of the Windows 9x family.

My apologies if I came off as a smarty pants, I just wanted to correct your information for the benefit of future readers. :)

I think King Arthur's correct regarding ME being the last of the Windows line (9x), although I don't see it mentioned in that quote. Pretty sure it was XP where the NT and Windows lines converged for the typical consumer.

They still use xp at work to run all the cnc machines.

This is the oldest and the best OS I've ever used, It never let me down.