February 14, 2001
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Source Reveals Origin of New Windows XP Moniker
Microsoft has been tooting its horn all over the blessed place about the new, albeit derivative, user experience in Windows XP. Well, here’s the real news behind the XP name:
“…the XP that appears after the word Windows is really an emoticon, expressing the user’s experience with Windows — it appears much in the same manner as one would put a smiley at the end of a sentence in an email to help clarify the sentence.”
Coincidentally, the emoticon has a nice visual tie-in to another Microsoft operating system… WinCE.
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