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Windows XP Release Date. Windows XP was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001 and to the public on October 25, 2001. Windows XP is preceded by both Windows 2000 and Windows Me. Windows XP was succeeded by Windows Vista. The most recent version of Windows is Windows 10 which was released on July 29, 2015. April 8, 2014 was the last day Microsoft issued security and non-security updates to Windows XP. With the operating system no longer being supported, Microsoft suggests that users upgrade to a newer version of Windows.
Windows XP was therefore the only choice for most desktop users, and within a few years of its release, most Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4, and Windows 2000 users had made the switch. Over the course of its life, Microsoft made Windows XP a much better operating system. Service Pack 2, released in 2004, was a major overhaul of the operating system.