Talk:Windows XP
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No mention of SP2 crisis?
editHow is there no mention of Microsoft going into crisis-mode becasue of all the critical bugs and vulnerabilities in XP causing a PR nightmare, and putting all other projects on hold until they could release SP2 with its massive changes, and even mailed out SP2 CDs for free instead of charging a shipping fee like they normally did? I’d add that myself, but I can’t be arsed to track down sources. I’m just surprised this huge event in XP’s history isn’t mentioned. 🤨 Synetech (talk) 13:46, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
Add color requirements
editIn the "System requirements" table, change all three of "Super VGA (800 × 600) or over" to "800 x 600 with 16-bit color", and change all three of "1024 x 768 or over" to "1024 x 768 with 32-bit color". 172.59.190.90 (talk) 12:09, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
- you can run windows XP with 8 bit color 50.209.62.201 (talk) 22:46, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
References 159 to 164 are the same
editCan an admin fix it? HgO! --- Notify me 17:18, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 17 June 2024
editAt the top of the page the article says that Windows Neptune was based off of the MSDOS based Windows 98 but it’s actually based off of Windows ME which is based off of Windows NT }} Witherstorm666666 (talk) 04:42, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- me is based on msdos 50.209.62.201 (talk) 22:46, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
Out of date
editMy attention was drawn off-wiki to this broken prose in the Market share section:
XP still has a double-digit market share in a few countries, such as Armenia at over 50%,[168][169][170][171] at 57%, where Windows 7 was highest ranked,
and after finding where the 57% was originally inserted (this 2020 edit) and noting that the sentence trails off in information about 2019 and that "under the hood" the referencing is stuck in 2021–22, I eventually made this pair of edits truncating the passage and making explicit that it refers to 2021; and tagging the section as needing an update. The 6 references relating to Armenia all had ref names, but none was reused, so I cut all but the first as superfluous. Most of them, including that one, go to StatCounter; they appear to differ in the period they cover, but all periods are 2021 or earlier, and when I click on the Wayback links (between Wayback outages) I find Wayback is actually serving an archive of the search page, not the specific results. It is possible that someone with JavaScript installed can get to the intended result, so I note this here. But even then, this data is not only excessively about one country, it's badly out of date. I'm surprised the over-focus on Armenia, the undefined time reference of "still", and the clumsy English of "Windows XP got highest ranked for the longest time" weren't flagged at the GAR in 2022. I have not looked at any other sections, but this passage was the same on April 16, 2022, the day before the GAR, as I found it today. (Courtesy ping to Whiteguru.) Yngvadottir (talk) 09:53, 25 October 2024 (UTC)