We knew there would be more than enough to keep us busy this month. The operating system’s popularity with users is, if anything, surpassed by its popularity with developers, so it was almost inevitable that we would be deluged with products of all shapes and sizes for this month’s comparative, from the old and familiar to the new and scary. To most of the world’s computer users, it’s just the way computers work. It is familiar, cheap, (comparatively) reliable and very popular. Skip forward almost a decade, and XP is still with us – not just hanging on by its fingertips but firmly remaining the most popular desktop platform (some estimates put it on over half of all desktop systems, and most agree that it runs on at least 40%).
Computers themselves were not too different from today of course, although the Pentium 4 was the hottest chip on the block and 圆4 was still a couple of years away. Wikipedia was less than a year old, Google was just starting to turn a profit, while the likes of Facebook, Skype, YouTube and World of Warcraft were yet to come. The 9/11 attacks took place between the platform’s release to manufacture and going on retail sale, as did the launch of the first generation iPod. Bush was still in his first year of presidency. When Windows XP first came out, George W.
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