

The new principles of the organization of a task bar consisting in grouping of several documents of the same application are entered into Windows XP. In Windows XP search thanks to grouping of the problems of search connected with accomplishment on a special search pane (Search Companion) is simplified At the beginning of the menu five most often used programs of the user and also programs of e-mail and the web browser applied by default are displayed. The appearance of the Start menu is changed. In Windows XP there are new styles of a design and subject in which 24-bit color icons and colors are used. Each such session requires in addition about 2 MB of RAM (without amount of memory, the used applications started in each of sessions). In Windows XP technologies of services of terminals thanks to which each new user session is started as a separate session of services of terminals in which data of each user are completely separated from each other are applied. When switching it is not required that the user who was earlier working on the computer quitted the system, saving the files opened for them.

For July, 2010 this OS was used for 74% of corporate PCs worldwide. In 2010 in Microsoft said that the possibility of a daungreyd with Windows 7 to Windows XP will be saved till 2020, having explained it with high popularity of a system. The main loop of support of OS came to the end in April, 2009, the expanded cycle of support which will last till April, 2014 works since then. The same concerns also producers of supercheap PCs which will be able to put a system to the middle of 2010.

The small companies which will obtain licenses for XP until the end of January, 2009 became an exception. Since Jthe Microsoft corporation stopped deliveries of Windows XP to large producers to the PC and retail networks. Its server option is the Windows Server 2003 system released later. Unlike Windows 2000 which was delivered both in server, and in client options Windows XP is exclusively client system. The Windows XP system was created on the basis of the advanced Windows 2000 code, and different versions were developed for users of home computers and business users. In Windows XP integration of Windows 2000 into the Windows 98 and Windows Me systems is performed. By recognition of users, the most successful and stable OS in the Windows family.

Windows XP - following, after Windows 2000 and Windows Millennium, the version operating system of corporation Microsoft released on October 25, 2001.
