** 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.

This lasted all the way through Windows 9x.

The original publication continued past the time when most people in the computer field regarded the Apple II as obsolete, but eventually ended publication in August, 1995 with issue # 166 ( at which point then-editor Peter Rokitski was putting it out practically singlehandedly ), survived by disk magazines for other computer lines such as the Macintosh and Windows which lasted a few more years before the entire line of Softdisk disk magazines was terminated.

Additionally it was necessary to carry over design decisions from earlier versions of Windows for reasons of backwards compatibility, even if these design decisions no longer matched a more modern computing environment.

Newer versions of Windows are seemingly unsupported as the tool is no longer listed on Compuware's website.

As of January 2012, a spokesperson for Microsoft has confirmed that Cutler is no longer working on Windows Azure, and has since joined the Xbox team.

With Mobile 6 also came Microsoft's new naming conventions and devices were no longer called Pocket PCs: devices with no phone abilities were named Windows Mobile Classic, and devices with phone abilities were named Windows Mobile Professional.

Windows 3. x is no longer supported.

The need to restart the computer in Real Mode MS DOS declined after Windows 3. 1x until it was no longer needed.

Microsoft BASIC ( BASICA, GW-BASIC, QuickBasic, QBasic ) is no longer found on distributions of Microsoft Windows or DOS ; however, it can be downloaded from various internet sites, and archives of DOS versions or old DOS disks which will still run on Pentium class Windows XP machines.

The service itself was known as MSN Messenger Service from 1999 to 2001, at which time, Microsoft changed its name to. NET Messenger Service and began offering clients that no longer carried the " MSN " name, such as the Windows Messenger client included with Windows XP, which was originally intended to be a streamlined version of MSN Messenger, free of advertisements and integrated into Windows.

Plug-ins for Windows Messenger, such as accessing the inbox of a Hotmail account, are no longer available ; users are instead encouraged to download Windows Live Messenger or Lync, depending on their needs.

The program also took considerably longer to load than both DOS Xtree and other Windows file managers, and operations like viewing files were slower.

The Third edition is also available from InteLex Corporation via Web access but no longer on CD-ROM ( the InteLex version was compatible with all Windows operating systems ).

While it was widely used up until the time of Windows 2000, the DLC protocol is no longer included in Windows XP.

In Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and later, the web site is no longer used to provide a user interface for selecting and downloading updates.

Sometime near August 19, 2005, AOL discontinued support for the protocol and no longer uses it in any of the instant messaging clients it actively maintains, such as its Windows and Mac clients for the AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ systems.

Since MS-DOS has given way to Microsoft Windows and other 32-bit operating systems not restricted by the original arbitrary 640KiB limit of the IBM PC, managing the memory of a personal computer no longer requires the user to manually manipulate internal settings and parameters of the system.

Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system also includes content-control software.

Newer ones include Free Lossless Audio Codec ( FLAC ), Apple's Apple Lossless, MPEG-4 ALS, Microsoft's Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless ( WMA Lossless ), Monkey's Audio, and TTA.

In late 1995, Doom was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft's new operating system Windows 95, despite million-dollar advertising campaigns for the latter.

Other common theories as to the initials ' origins include " Graphics and Windows ", " Gates, William " ( Microsoft's president at the time ), or " Gates-Whitten " ( the two main designers of the program ).

Much of the popularity for Windows 2. 0 came by way of its inclusion as a " run-time version " with Microsoft's new graphical applications, Excel and Word for Windows.

This version was the precursor to the multimedia features available in Windows 3. 1 and later, and was part of Microsoft's specification for the Multimedia PC.

Windows NT version 3. 51 was Microsoft's entry into this field, and took away market share from Novell ( the dominant player ) in the following years.

One of Microsoft's biggest advances initially developed for Windows NT was a new 32-bit API, to replace the legacy 16-bit Windows API.

Operating systems ported to the architecture include SGI's IRIX, Microsoft's Windows NT ( until v4. 0 ), Windows CE, Linux, BSD, UNIX System V, SINIX, QNX, and MIPS Computer Systems ' own RISC / os.

This was encouraged by the support of the first two versions of Microsoft's Windows NT for Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC-and to a lesser extent the Clipper architecture and SPARC.

Bundling them together is alleged to have been responsible for Microsoft's victory in the browser wars as every Windows user had a copy of Internet Explorer.

New products based on OpenStep were released, including OpenStep Enterprise, a version for Microsoft's Windows NT.

The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of Microsoft's antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft Corporation's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice.

As a result of the dispute, IBM signed the license agreement 15 minutes before Microsoft's Windows 95 launch event, which was later than their competitors and this badly hurt sales of IBM PCs.

Microsoft's ActiveSync and Windows Mobile Device Center only synchronize with Microsoft Outlook or a Microsoft Exchange server.

* Interix – a full-featured POSIX and Unix environment subsystem for Microsoft's Windows NT-based operating systems

Later models have been credited with spurring competition in the previously stagnant Palm market, closing many of the gaps that existed between Palm OS PDAs and those powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, particularly on the multimedia front, but also with Sony's proprietary application launcher interface.

As mentioned, SMIL is not yet native to web browsers, so in order to put SMIL in a web page, one must embed it and open it in a plug-in such as Apple's QuickTime or Microsoft's Windows Media Player.

This protects critical Windows system files by preventing programs other than Microsoft's operating system update mechanisms such as the Package Installer, Windows Installer and other update components from modifying them.