Development of Windows XP

Development of Windows XP started in 1999 as a successor to the Windows Neptune and Windows Odyssey projects. Neptune was originally going to be the successor of Windows Me, though based on the NT kernel. Microsoft merged the teams working on Neptune with that of Windows Odyssey, Windows 2000's successor, in early 2000.^[1] The resulting project, codenamed "Whistler", went on to become Windows XP.^[2]

Development work on Windows XP was completed on August 24, 2001, and the operating system was released on October 25 of that year.^[3]

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[cnet-consolidate-1] "Microsoft consolidates Windows development efforts". CNET. CNET Networks. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved January 23, 2014.

[cnet-xpnamed-2] "Microsoft to christen Windows, Office with new name". CNET. CNET Networks. Archived from the original on 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2018-06-09.

[WinXPRelease-3] "An Inside Look at the Months-long Process of Getting Windows XP Ready for Release to Manufacturing". Microsoft.com. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2018.

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