Microsoft produced Windows XP, which is a personal computer operating system that was a part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. On August 24, 2001 windows xp was manufacturing and after two months it was generally released for retail sale in market on October 25, 2001.
In those days XP was very popular and useful OS for any kind of official or personal purpose.It was very easy to handle the operating system for beginners in computer use.
Some feature which was introduced in that OS:-
1. ASR-that is automatic system recovery.
2.Color based GUI.(better than windows 98).
3.Enhanced Graphics.
4.Better file system and provides file system encrypting(only for NTFS) .
5.Fast user switching.
6.Backup and recovery system.
7.Default media player.(windows media player).
8.User interfacing is very easy and simple.
9.DirectX 8.1 upgrade able to DirectX 9.0c
and many more.
There are three service packs were released for Windows XP and the contains various fault fixes, bug fixes and some additional features.
The service packs are:-
Windows XP SP1(service pack 1)
Windows XP SP2(service pack 2)
Windows XP SP3(service pack 3)
Although in these days people are using new and upgraded operating system like Windows 8, Windows 10 but in my view Windows XP SP3 was the best operating system for users.
In replacement of Windows XP the Microsoft corporation designed Windows 7 which is also a very good operating system.