Homestead and Metallic themes are now called Olive Green and Silver like they are in the final version.New Homestead and Metallic (Olive green and Silver) Luna theme colours.All the remaining Whistler references were replaced.Includes an animated windows flag at the login screen.Uses Windows XP references and RC 1 on the setup.Most Whistler references were replaced.More mentions of Whistler in this build have been removed.The 'shine' was removed from the Start Menu.
First build to start calling itself Windows XP in most places.Minor changes to OOBE to be able to check the internet connection and ask for the necessary settings to connect.Contains a working Windows Activation and prevents log on to the system after 14 days of installation.Animations are present in the taskbar and the Start menu.First leaked build with the Luna theme, which went on to be the major theme for Windows XP.Windows Activation is added, but it is not functional.Has a number of higher resolution icons.Minor change on boot screen, mainly focusing on reference changes.Īppears to be identical to the previous builds.Has the new Start menu enabled by default, not disabled as it was in Build 2250.Replaces many 'Windows 2000' references with 'Whistler', with some exceptions.Improves on the then-new Professional theme, renames it to Watercolour.Internet Explorer identifies itself as version 5.6.However, this feature is disabled by default. Start menu was redesigned in this build, and now forms the Start menu of Windows XP and later Windows versions.First known Whistler build to include the new Watercolour (then known as Professional) theme.Refers to Windows Whistler Professional in the watermark on the desktop.Has no watermark, unlike the SD (Source Depot) Windows 2000 Post-RTM build.Gains few features and appearances of Windows XP.It does not describe changes happening after RTM (eg - SP1 betas). Note that this changelog includes only beta versions of Windows XP for now. However, antimalware signatures were still being produced for Windows XP for a year after the End-Of-Life (EOL). Windows XP support ended on April 8, 2014, while its server counterpart ended a year later. Windows XP bridged the gap between the Windows 9x and Windows NT series of operating systems ending the former, while bringing the stability and security of the latter to consumers.Ī 64-bit version of the operating system, based on the Windows Server 2003 kernel, was made available on April 25, 2005. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, while its server counterpart, Windows Server 2003, was released almost two years later. Windows XP (codenamed Whistler) is an operating system developed by Microsoft, and the successor to Windows ME and Windows 2000.
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