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The History of Windows XP
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As the company in charge of the world’s computer operating system, office suite, web browser, media player, and encyclopedia, they could make no changes without upsetting people. Having recently worked on DEC’s VMS, he was precisely the kind of engineer who could get Microsoft out of MS-DOS entirely and provide an operating system well suited to a more technologically complicated environment. At the time of introduction XP brought with it many new network features, and bundled software like Internet Connection Firewall, IE6, Remote Desktop, OE6, Windows Messenger, and MSN Explorer.
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