** With the introduction of Windows 7 ( Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise editions ), Windows XP Mode enables full compatibility with older programs supported under Windows XP via Microsoft Virtual PC.

* Enabling International Support in Windows XP / Server 2003 Family, a Microsoft tutorial on how to install input methods on Windows XP.

Context menus in Windows XP are customizable by third-party software.

For example, Windows XP does this when sorting file names.

ClearType was later introduced as an operating system feature in Windows XP, where it was kept turned off by default.

ClearType in Windows XP currently supports the RGB and BGR sub pixel structures.

The best option for users of Windows XP having rotated LCD displays ( Tablet PCs or swivel-stand LCD displays ) is using regular anti-aliasing, or switching off font-smoothing altogether.

Duke Nukem 3D has been ported to run on modern Microsoft Windows variants including Windows XP and Windows 7.

FCPLib supports Windows NT / 2K / XP, Debian, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

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Windows NT 3. 1 ( Microsoft marketing wanted Windows NT to appear to be a continuation of Windows 3. 1 ) arrived in Beta form to developers at the July 1992 Professional Developers Conference in San Francisco.

* Windows 2000 Professional

* Windows XP Professional, for business and power users contained all features in Home Edition.

** Windows XP Professional N, as above, but without a default installation of Windows Media Player, as mandated by a European Union ruling

Contained all features offered in Windows XP Professional and the Windows Media Center.

* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, released on 25 April 2005 for home and workstation systems utilizing 64-bit processors based on the x86-64 instruction set developed by AMD as AMD64 ; Intel calls their version Intel 64

It is roughly analogous to Windows XP Professional in features.

On 25 April 2005, Microsoft released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003, x64 Editions in Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter SKUs.

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is an edition of Windows XP for x86-64 personal computers.

Both Windows Server 2003 x64 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition use identical kernels.

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is not to be confused with Windows XP 64-bit Edition, as the latter was designed for Intel Itanium processors.

During the initial development phases, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was named Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems.

Microsoft focuses on selling Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional.

Windows Server 2008 R2 ships in 64-bit versions ( x64 and Itanium ) only.

* Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ( NT version 5. 2 )

* Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V provides x64 type 1 virtualization.

In its literature and product version names, Microsoft and Sun refer to AMD64 / Intel 64 collectively as x64 in the Windows and Solaris operating systems respectively.

Both firms talk with one another's competitors from time to time, most notably with Microsoft's close relationship with AMD and the development of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition utilizing AMD-designed 64-bit extensions to the x86 architecture, and Intel's decision to sell its processors to Apple Inc.

DB2 Express-C runs on 32 and 64bit Windows, Linux on x86, x64 and POWER processors, Solaris on x64 CPU and Intel machines running Mac OS X.

* Windows NT 4. 0 Server, Enterprise Edition ( includes support for 8-way SMP and clustering )

In 1999, Microsoft released Windows 98 Second Edition, an interim release.

* Windows 2000 Advanced Server Limited Edition

* Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Limited Edition

In September 2000, Microsoft introduced Windows Me ( Millennium Edition ), which upgraded Windows 98 with enhanced multimedia and Internet features from Windows 2000.

Windows Me was criticised for stability issues, and for lacking real mode DOS support, to the point of being referred to as the " Mistake Edition " or " Many Errors.

* Windows XP Home Edition, for home desktops and laptops-lacked features such as joining Active Directory Domain, Remote Desktop Server and Internet Information Services Server.

** Windows XP Home Edition N, as above, but without a default installation of Windows Media Player, as mandated by a European Union ruling

* Windows XP Media Center Edition ( MCE ), released in October 2002 for desktops and notebooks with an emphasis on home entertainment.

** Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003

** Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004

** Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, released on 12 October 2004.

* Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, for tablet PCs

** Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005

* Windows XP Starter Edition, for new computer users in developing countries

* Windows XP 64-bit Edition, is a version for Intel's Itanium line of processors ; maintains 32-bit compatibility solely through a software emulator.

** Windows XP 64-bit Edition 2003, based on the Windows NT 5. 2 codebase.