Silly Question

[Harlequin]

hey there im taking a comp sci course in college and the teacher wants us to find out what the xp in windows xp means. can anyone help out???

 

[Ricky]

It's supposed to stand for "experience."

I think it works better like this.

 

[Zammy-Sam]

hehe.
I though it stands for eXPected errors. This is why you get a message when an UNexpected error occurs.
(Harlequin, I was just kidding. Don't show this to your teacher. )

 

[Giaguara]

Hehehe ... Ricky you are so right.

Actually, as Macs went to "X" .. to be OS X, Micro$oft had again to try to copy everything they could. Thus the M$ next OS had to be XP. Well, at least it's not "OS XP" but still .. don't P on my X!!

 

[delsoljb32]

I think it means XPensive, since you spend most of your time downloading and buying updates.

 

[Browni]

eXPeraince is what i belive it stands for, but i prefer eXPected problems

 

[bobw]

XP = Experience (Microsoft Windows XP)

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?p=dict&String=exact&Acronym=XP

 

[macavenger]

eXtra Pain

 

[Convert]

Zammy....I got that today.

Random error.

Said something like "<filename> is eitheer missing or corrupt. Please replace file to start Windows.
This was random. I switched off my PC, like usual, swithced it on this morning and got this error. I freaked out. I had all my work. Came back 10 minutes later, the error had gone. I hate XP.

 

[TommyWillB]

lol

Ask a WinDoze question on a Mac forum...

 

[Timmargh]

Shame they didn't call it Windows XC ...


*starts stop watch*

 

[mdnky]

extra problems
expect problems
expire (as in die, or end, or even quit)

 

[Convert]

I love the mods here

 

[mdnky]

Oops...forgot extremely problematic...

 

[Perseus]

XPonentially frustrating

 

[ScottW]

extra problems
expect problems
expire (as in die, or end, or even quit)

Yea, this is what I always heard it meant.