In many ways, XP was simply in the right place at the right time. It’s not just the failure of Windows Longhorn that gave XP such a big advantage, however. That gave XP an eight-year head start on Windows 7. And it wasn’t until 2009 that XP had a worthy successor in Windows 7. It wasn’t until 2007 that its official replacement, Windows Vista, appeared to less-than-stellar reviews. The most oft-cited reason is that XP’s successor, Windows Longhorn, was delayed for many years before being cancelled. There are many reasons for Windows XP’s recalcitrance. Windows XP is the Methuselah of operating systems, and just a few weeks before Microsoft drops its long-term support, it still has a whopping 29% market share. To put that in perspective, it would be like MS-DOS 4.01 (released in 1988) still being supported when Windows XP was released in 2001. Microsoft is terminating support for Windows XP this spring, 13 years after the operating system first came out.
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