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		trezor on Oct 14, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7″. Seri... Next up we hit Windows XP, which has served most of us reasonably well since 2001. It sounds sort of cool, it’s catchy, and we have no idea what it means. I thought it was commonplace knowledge within the geek community that XP was short for "eXPerience"? If he is going to go on a long rant commenting on the name of different Windows-releases, he should at least know the topic he is talking about ;)

baha_man on Oct 14, 2008 [–]

"I thought it was commonplace knowledge within the geek community that XP was short for "eXPerience"?"

It's news to me. I think it's still fair to say that the name "doesn't really mean anything".

pmjordan on Oct 14, 2008 | [–]

That makes the rant even more pointless.

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