If Only We Knew Then

If only we knew then what we know now about windows XP. Windows XP is turning five years old, but will anybody want to celebrate the occasion? Microsoft's long-anticipated replacement for "Win 9x" -- the series of releases that began with Windows 95 and ended with Windows Millennium Edition --was never supposed to stick around this long. But half a decade after it began shipping on new computers (followed a month later by its retail debut), XP lingers.

You can think of Windows XP as a house with a second floor built of spackle, wood filler and duct tape. And even with all those updates, the operating system has met only a few of its goals while falling short of others in a catastrophic manner.

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