Design account Already a member? Indication in As outlined by 1 resource, the XP in windows XP stands for 'Experience' (as with the "Windows experience"). A comparable connotation was created for the 64-bit successor,
microsoft Office 2010 Activation, Windows Vista. ------ Another probability (although not 1 Microsoft promotion would have picked) : The "XP" was meant to indicate the human aspect with the program by using two characters that were well-known to become used for smilies in textspeak : the X currently being squinting eyes even while the P might possibly be the mouth and protruding tongue.-------Among the Microsoft developers,
Windows 7 Pro, XP is 2001 in Roman numerals.The far more ordinary MMI was avoided,
Microsoft Office Standard 2010, because the MRNSDK (Microsoft Roman Numeral Advancement Kit) doesn't fully assistance the M symbol for one thousand. Needless to say,
Windows 7 Pro Key, P is not really ordinarily included in the Roman numeral technique; it was quietly extra in between the one.01 and subsequent 8.0 releases with the MRNSDK. Even though undocumented,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, and possessing obscure semantics, the P extension is extensively chosen. In any situation, it happens to be simple to verify thru experimentation that XP = 2001.