Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Millions of People Still Use Windows XP”.
It’S pretty rare these days for any tech product to have a 13-year life cycle, but Windows XP and its iconic Green Hill hung on for almost that long before Microsoft decided to finally stop supporting it and if you travel to Armenia, you’ll actually find that over half The country still uses XP so how the heck did an operating system that looked like it was designed by Little Tikes end up ruling the world and, more importantly, stubbornly refused to give up its crown for so dang long well, when XP burst onto the scene in Late 2001, it was already sorely overdue. Home users had been on the buggy Windows 9x series since 1995, and these operating systems were fundamentally based on MS-DOS, which had been around since 1981.. So it wasn’t surprising that the underlying code of Windows – 95 98 and me wasn’t going to be adequate for newer software and Hardware Windows. Xp was instead based on Windows, NT, a more business operated family of operating systems that hadn’t previously been marketed to home users.
This meant in 2001, people got their first taste of the benefits of NT, faster performance, better compatibility with bleeding edge products and an OS that wouldn’t immediately blue screen. If you heard its feelings, but perhaps the bigger sea change that XP brought to the table, was that it really started to popularize the idea that computers and accessories should just work without needing to go through complicated configuration procedures. Windows XP made it easy to automatically connect to known Wi-Fi networks. It’S a good thing, considering how much internet usage exploded between 1995 and 2001. USB and Plug and Play support was also significantly improved. So, instead of having to install a driver every single time you plugged in a new Gadget, you instead got a cheery notification in the bottom right of your screen, happily telling you it was ready to use, and even though some folks disliked how XP had a kids Play area look to it. Many others welcomed the marriage of a a much more reliable operating system with a user interface that at least tried to be accessible and Visually pleasing. Remember that XP came out roughly six years before the original iPhone, but had lots of similar design cues with rounded edges, bright, colors and icons that tried to clearly convey meaning to the user. So in many ways XP was one of the first products that got Society at large thinking of electronics as intuitive and pretty and not modeled after, like the last hardest level of a video game. But this only explains why XP became popular, not how it stayed popular for so long. We’Ll tell you why that happened right after we thank grammarly for sponsoring this video grammarly is here to help you get your work done and be more productive. It provides comprehensive, spelling and grammar suggestions to ensure your writing is professional.
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In fact, official support for desktop versions of Windows XP lasted nearly three years Beyond Microsoft’s typical support timeline because it was so Paradigm shifting and reasonably stable. It remained good enough for users and businesses who just didn’t feel a need to put in the effort and money to upgrade just look at how much Windows 11 is struggling against Windows 10, which is now 7 years old. Even now, XP is still the operating system of choice for a surprising number of ATMs, Medical Systems and era. Dentist wannabe dictators worldwide, because people just don’t want to spend the time and the money to upgrade a working system unsecure as it may be, or they need XP to run certain kinds of older software and believe it or not.
Xp has lasted longer than that famous Green Hill. Well, don’t get us wrong, it’s still there, but these days it’s covered in delicious wine grapes. It’S a win-win thanks for watching this Tech, wakey like it. If you liked it dislike it, if you disliked it check out our other videos, comment below with video suggestions and don’t forget to subscribe and follow techwiki, we keep just keep making these.
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