微軟在2001年10月25日發布了Windows 95以來對全球影響最為深遠的系統Windows XP，這款產品在延續了10年生命後依然在PC市場占據主流地位，是什麼讓它有這麼頑強的生命力，讓我們一起來看下面的畫廊，回顧XP的華彩十年。
![Bill Gates signs off Windows XP gold master, Aug. 24, 2001. A helicopter waits to fly off the code. [Ari Pernick]](https://www.windows5.online/windows/UploadFiles_8258/201701/2017012511212764.jpg)
2001年10月25日一大早，Gates和Jim Allchin共同將XP母盤通過直升機運送的形式交付廠商。
![Windows XP boxes come off the assembly lines during simpler times. Microsoft offered only two versions of the operating system. [Microsoft]](https://www.windows5.online/windows/UploadFiles_8258/201701/2017012511212974.jpg)
彩盒裝的Windows XP，無數人腦海中的美好回憶
![While people wanting this disc waited until Oct. 25, 2001, XP shipped on new PCs more than a month earlier. [Priceminister]](https://www.windows5.online/windows/UploadFiles_8258/201701/2017012511213021.jpg)
許多人為了XP推遲了購買PC的時間
![Sign of the Times -- the launch took place in New York about six week after the Twin Towers fell. Microsoft culled back its launch plans in respect to the fallen. [Nate Mook]](https://www.windows5.online/windows/UploadFiles_8258/201701/2017012511213095.jpg)
時代廣場的XP廣告
![Bill Gates and Jim Allchin kick off the Windows XP launch event, Oct. 25, 2001. [Nate Mook]](https://www.windows5.online/windows/UploadFiles_8258/201701/2017012511213133.jpg)
Bill Gates和 Jim Allchin在XP發布會上
合唱團在會上演出"America the Beautiful" 曲目，祭奠當年發生的911事件罹難者。
![Gateway gave out cows -- befitting its black-and-white moo herd motif -- during Windows XP's New York launch. The direct PC maker started selling XP systems more than a month earlier. [Larry Seltzer]](http://www.ylmf.net/uploads/allimg/111026/09142R635-7.jpg)
Gateway的吉祥物奶牛也穿上了XP T恤
![Sting performs in Bryant Park, as part of Windows XP launch festivities, Oct. 25, 2001. [Tammy Loh]](http://www.ylmf.net/uploads/allimg/111026/09142V215-8.jpg)
Bryant Park，樂隊慶賀XP發布
![About three weeks after XP's launch, Gates unveiled Windows XP Tablet PC Edition during Comdex 2001. The first Tablet PCs debuted about a year later. Here Gates holds one during the November 2002 launch event. [Microsoft]](https://www.windows5.online/windows/UploadFiles_8258/201701/2017012511223635.jpg)
XP發布3個月後，蓋茨在Comdex 2001上公布Windows XP Tablet PC Edition，這也是現在風頭正盛的平板產品的前身。
Windows XP Embedded for ATM 正在運行
XP發布6周後，微軟公布了開發代號為 "Freestyle"的系統，之後在2005年還公布了MCE2005，將家電數字化。
![Microsoft chose actor Tom Arnold as its spokesman for Windows XP Media Center Edition, which officially launched Oct. 29, 2002. [Microsoft]](https://www.windows5.online/windows/UploadFiles_8258/201701/2017012511223989.jpg)
Tom Arnold成為Windows XP Media Center Edition代言人
Windows XP Service Pack 1,在2002年9月發布，遵循美國反托拉斯法案，讓用戶可以自行設定默認程序。
在歐盟的壓力下，微軟發布Windows XP N特別版，將一些組件從系統中默認去除，並可選競爭對手的產品。
2004年夏天，Windows XP SP2發布，沒有一款補丁包的發布可以這樣成功，它直接奠定了接下來6年XP的市場地位。
標志性的SP2安全中心，它讓XP史無前例地更安全和穩定。
![On Aug. 11, 2004, Microsoft unveiled Windows XP Starter Edition, which two months later went into trials in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Shown here is box for the Indonesian edition. [Microsoft]](http://www.ylmf.net/uploads/allimg/111026/09142TY8-17.jpg)
2004年8月11日，微軟公布XP入門版，雖然很不好用，但為發展中國家的信息化作出了貢獻。
![Microsoft had several Windows XP Starter Edition objectives: Increase sales in emerging markets; do so without causing pricing backlash in mature markets; and reduce piracy. Shown here is the Hindi version, which like others lacks capabilities found in full XP. [Microsoft]](http://www.ylmf.net/uploads/allimg/111026/09142WZ1-18.jpg)
比爾蓋茨在2006年三月啟動了UMPC計劃，這也是小型平板的前身，可以說微軟在XP時代就已經給業界指明了方向。
![Before iPad, there was Ultra-Mobile PC. Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows XP, shown here on the Samsung Q1, offered tablet-size, touchscreen capabilities four years before Apple released iPad. [Microsoft]](https://www.windows5.online/windows/UploadFiles_8258/201701/2017012511234920.jpg)
