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by geek860 on March 8th, 2007
Looked it up (good question btw).
The XP in Windows XP stands for "eXPerience".
by Volt on April 11th, 2007
eXtreme Patience (required).
by t0adphr0g on April 21st, 2007
X-treme Patches
by Anonymous on April 17th, 2007
Windows XP is a line of proprietary operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers.
(The letters "XP" stand for eXPerience.)
Source from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP
by Seraphim Shinobi on April 11th, 2007
eXceptionally Pooey
by CousinVinny on April 11th, 2007
X-tra Poor (Security)
by jackpipe30 on October 21st, 2008
Xtra Problems.
by Helladamnleet on March 17th, 2009
XP is literally meant to be used as an emoticon by Bill Gates because he just ripped you off by selling you another crappy version of Windows.
I'm a born and raised windows user BTW, I just strongly feel that Micro$oft needs to make a windows for the more advanced user.
by East Hill on January 1st, 2009
It's actually the sign for a dead cyclops.
by umanila on January 9th, 2008
The letters "XP" is an abbreviation for eXPerience.[2] It was codenamed "Whistler", after Whistler, British Columbia, as many Microsoft employees skied at the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort during its development.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP
by Joshua_Frozen on April 21st, 2007
eXPect nothing
by Anonymous on April 14th, 2007
XP = Unknown Path as in "Not That File System!"
by cristnalyn on April 11th, 2007
X-tra Pennies for Bill Gates!
by Olero on January 1st, 2009
Xtreme Problems?
by TINKERBELLE on November 22nd, 2008
hello,i believe it stands for express.
by Jimmyz101 on May 5th, 2007
Xtremely Crap...
actually i think they meant it to be eXPerience.
by Flasoft on August 24th, 2009
it stands for eXPeriance
by fischer on July 17th, 2009
eXPerience
by Talimze on June 10th, 2009
Experience Points.
Like, "You remembered your password. +10 XP."
by james123 on June 10th, 2009
So far, nobody has managed to figure out what XP actually stands for. Around the time Win95 came out (around early 1996 if I remember correctly) there was a humourous list going around suggesting things that the 95 could represent (ie megs of RAM required, speed of processor required, number of floppies it ships on, etc) So by trawling that extremely useful resource known as Usenet, I've compiled a list of things normal people think XP stands for...
eXtra Pain
eXtra Processor
eXtra Pathetic
eXpand PC
eXplode PC
eXtremely Proprietary
eX Paperclip (they got rid of it at last)
eXponential Pricing
eXPensive
eXPired
eXtra Problems
linuX-Promoting
eXtacy Pill
eXtra Payment
eXPerimental
eXtra Profits
eXtremely unPredictable
Xenophobic Programming
eXtended Protocols
eXcentric Programming
10th Pre-beta
eXcremental Pile
eXclude Pirates (that was the plan, anyway)
Xmas Party
eXPloitation
eXtremely Pants
Among the Microsoft developers, XP is 2001 in Roman numerals. The more standard MMI was avoided, because the MRNSDK (Microsoft Roman Numeral Development Kit) doesn't fully support the M symbol for 1000. Of course, P is not generally included in the Roman numeral system; it was quietly added between the 1.01 and subsequent 8.0 releases of the MRNSDK. Though undocumented, and possessing obscure semantics, the P extension is widely used. In any case, it is easy to verify through experimentation that XP = 2001. (Posted on comp.os.linux.advocacy by Robert Morelli)
Ironically, the Mozilla team use 'XP' to represent 'Cross Platform'
eXtra Pillow (useful for when you're waiting for it to boot)
eXperiencing Problems
by BernieM on August 27th, 2009
It Actually stands for eXtended Protection.
by jshm22 on August 31st, 2009
Xtra Prickly for people who don't know how to secure it
by Go know thyself is THE RED QUEEN on June 8th, 2009
Experience Pack? I think? something like that?
by Magic S on October 29th, 2009
eXPect to buy the next Microsoft OS in 2 years.
by Anonymous on October 21st, 2009
eXtreme Programming
by BernieM on August 27th, 2009
It Actually Stands for eXtended protection.
by Anon on May 14th, 2009
It doesn't stand for anything. It's a smiley.
Windows XP
It's the makers laughing at how terrible their own product is.
by Anonymous on December 28th, 2007
good question. alot of people are saying ex perience. i think its that.
by sachin1984 on May 23rd, 2007
X-tra potential. XP could also mean extra potential.
by Anonymous on December 28th, 2007
i think a more thinkable question is "What does Ubuntu stands for ? " :P
by Ward17 on February 9th, 2008
turn it on it's side... It's a dead emoticon with it's tongue hanging out.
that's how it acts and how it makes all of it's users feel.
by OmarFW on February 20th, 2008
Xtra Pwnage?
by babs on May 12th, 2007
eXPerience is the right answer Microsoft windows eXPerience
by cowluver on May 5th, 2007
The letters "XP" stand for eXPerience.
Source:http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/feb01/02-05namingpr.mspx
by navyatha on August 9th, 2010
xp stands for experience in windows xp n in windows it is xenon processor
by Soma_S on January 12th, 2011
Experience
by Quarranttey_I on January 20th, 2011
I think XP in windows stand for "Extended Product" of microsoft.
by smart9426 on April 22nd, 2007
Extra pesky
by Anonymous on March 9th, 2008
eXPerience. best opertating system ive ever used. (and ive used mac and linux)
by TINKERBELLE on October 21st, 2008
hi,it stands for express.i have windows xp too.
by Rahbar on March 17th, 2009
eXPosed
by Lion Heart sleeps on March 17th, 2009
It was surely Windows eXPert not eXPerience!
by Vik on May 14th, 2009
xp stands for "eXPerience" on windows xp.
by Ghoul on May 14th, 2009
The XP in windows XP stands for 'Experience'
by kadeer on July 17th, 2010
its stand for express works,,,with eXperience
by book-wrm12 on February 25th, 2009
The XP in Windows XP is Windows eXPerience.
by michl09 on January 3rd, 2009
stands for experience
by prafulla on November 19th, 2008
experience
by Style4wifi on January 1st, 2009
Microsoft Windows experence.
by Ec-nal Licensed Bootie Inspector on January 1st, 2009
''Vista Sux'' yo...
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I kinda wondered that myself. Of course, being an antifan of Microsoft, I had to come up with my own ideas (e.g. XP = eXtra Pukey, XP = needs X (unknown number) service Packs, etc.)...;-D...
by Old School on March 8th, 2007
Thanks geek860! :)
by jennyb on March 9th, 2007
geek860, good information.
by Anonymous too on March 16th, 2007
To the person that rated me down - Why? I answered the question completely and correctly, yet you rated it not helpful? Dam trolls.
by geek860 on April 14th, 2007
its a good answer. rated you up.
by rgypsy on May 5th, 2007