Microsoft officially announced that Whistler, the new product for Windows would be known as Windows XP, short for "experience".
The operating system for personal computer operating system produced by Microsoft is part of Windows NT family of operating systems. The operating system was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and generally released for retail sale on October 25, 2001.
Microsoft ends its support for Windows XP on April 8th, 2014.
