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Introducing Windows XP.(Brief Article)

Industrial Distribution, April, 2001 by Harper, Doug

Microsoft's latest offering follows a long line of enhancements to the Windows OS Do you get the feeling that practically every time you open a computer magazine there is an article about Microsoft announcing yet another new or improved operating system? If so, you're not far from wrong.

For the last several years Microsoft has released either an enhancement or a new version of its Windows operating system approximately every seven months. The following is a chronology of the various flavors of Microsoft Windows systems produced in the last 16 years: * November 1985 -- Windows 1.0 * April 1987 -- Windows 2.0 * June 1988 -- Windows 286 and 386 versions 2.1 * May 1990 -- Windows 3.0 * April 1992 -- Windows 3.1 *...

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