Windows XP software is an operating system released by Windows in 2001 to replace the remedial software of Windows 98, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows ME; its predecessors. Its name derived from the common abbreviation for experience, because Windows XP software was meant to build and improve on its past forms such as Windows 98 and other predecessors. Thus making it the product of experience based on these improvements to a former structure. Shortly after its release, it sold over 300 million copies to previous Windows software owners owing to the mounting anticipation of the greatly improved operating software.
Currently, Windows XP software is some of the most common software being used worldwide due to its easy use and simplistic navigation. Some of Windows XP’s primary features include additional built in multi-media features enabling and enhancing the ability to record and watch TV shows online, listen to music, and view DVD movies and encrypted software.
Windows XP was designed to run applications using a Tablet PC platform making the use of applications on the computer easier. However it is more difficult to write application software because application software still requires an interface to patch it onto the computer. Basically a middle man is required for application software to be written directly on the computer. This is remedied by Windows XP’s direct successor Window’s Vista and the built in software that renders the application middle man obsolete.
Windows XP also offered a greatly redesigned graphical user interface, a new change Windows introduced as being more user-friendly than former editions of Windows. The graphical interface makes the user and application visual media on the computer more pleasing because of things such as enhanced video cards and higher color bits and visual resolution.
Some users referred to this as coming out of the “Stone Age” of computer graphics.
Also, a new software management software was introduced called Side-by-Side Assembly which decreases the problems that arise with the dynamic-link libraries in the Windows program series. It basically reduced dependency of applications allowing more applications to run at once on a computer. This was intended to be the “cure” for what was called, in colloquial terms, “DLL Hell” which was caused by the restrictions of the Dynamic-link library in former versions of Windows.
Windows XP software was the first version of the Windows line to use product activation to prevent and heavily reduce illegal copying of media and other files. However, this particular restriction did not go over well with all users and other privacy advocates because it reduced the ability to share files on various programs as well as cheapen the cost of attaining software and media.
Though it has been subject to this critical acclaim, Windows XP has proven to be one of the most popular operating systems software currently on the market. In some cases, it is preferable to more advanced and newer operating systems because of its simple navigation and easy to use interface. Even with the rising popularity of its successor, Windows Vista, Windows XP is still one of the greatest accomplishments to date of the Windows Operating system series.