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Windows XP turns 20- MIcrosoft's rise and fall points to one thing - don't fix what isn't broken2.68 MB
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Windows XP turns 20: Microsoft's rise and fall points to one thing — don't fix what isn't broken
The Conversation, Vol.20 October 2021
2021
Appears in The Conversation
Abstract
Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements. As of August this year, Windows XP still maintained a greater market share than its successor, Windows Vista. When mainstream support for XP ended in April 2009, it was running on a huge 75% of Windows computers and about 19% of people were still using XP when extended security support finished in 2014. Microsoft provided security support in a few special cases, such as for military use, until 2019 — an incredible 18 years after the initial release. But what made XP excel? And what has Microsoft learned in the two decades since its release?
Details
- Title
- Windows XP turns 20: Microsoft's rise and fall points to one thing — don't fix what isn't broken
- Authors
- Erica Mealy (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.20 October 2021
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2021
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.9yf9xdh33
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Copyright note
- The Conversation Media Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Engage Research Lab
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99584804702621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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