Add color requirements

In the "System requirements" table, change all three of "Super VGA (800 × 600) or over" to "800 x 600 with 16-bit color", and change all three of "1024 x 768 or over" to "1024 x 768 with 32-bit color". 172.59.190.90 (talk) 12:09, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

you can run windows XP with 8 bit color 50.209.62.201 (talk) 22:46, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 June 2024

At the top of the page the article says that Windows Neptune was based off of the MSDOS based Windows 98 but it’s actually based off of Windows ME which is based off of Windows NT }} Witherstorm666666 (talk) 04:42, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

me is based on msdos 50.209.62.201 (talk) 22:46, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Out of date

My attention was drawn off-wiki to this broken prose in the Market share section:

XP still has a double-digit market share in a few countries, such as Armenia at over 50%,[168][169][170][171] at 57%, where Windows 7 was highest ranked,

and after finding where the 57% was originally inserted (this 2020 edit) and noting that the sentence trails off in information about 2019 and that "under the hood" the referencing is stuck in 2021–22, I eventually made this pair of edits truncating the passage and making explicit that it refers to 2021; and tagging the section as needing an update. The 6 references relating to Armenia all had ref names, but none was reused, so I cut all but the first as superfluous. Most of them, including that one, go to StatCounter; they appear to differ in the period they cover, but all periods are 2021 or earlier, and when I click on the Wayback links (between Wayback outages) I find Wayback is actually serving an archive of the search page, not the specific results. It is possible that someone with JavaScript installed can get to the intended result, so I note this here. But even then, this data is not only excessively about one country, it's badly out of date. I'm surprised the over-focus on Armenia, the undefined time reference of "still", and the clumsy English of "Windows XP got highest ranked for the longest time" weren't flagged at the GAR in 2022. I have not looked at any other sections, but this passage was the same on April 16, 2022, the day before the GAR, as I found it today. (Courtesy ping to Whiteguru.) Yngvadottir (talk) 09:53, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

The article should mention that Windows XP was launched solely in response to Mac OS X.

. KMaster888 (talk) 14:28, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

^{[citation needed]} pcuser42 (talk) 19:39, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, someone should add a few citations if/when the mention is added to the article. KMaster888 (talk) 19:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 April 2025

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Change "One Asian country, Armenia still has very high Windows XP use at 75% use (while elsewhere, including in Africa, have by now under 1% use).[7]"

to

"One Asian country, Armenia, still has very high Windows XP use at 75% use (while elsewhere, including in Africa, have by now under 1% use).[7]

Perhaps linking the Armenia page to the word "Armenia". Override8188 (talk) 02:03, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: Country pages are typically not linked per MOS:OL. – AllCatsAreGrey ^(talk) 23:03, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 November 2025

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Change in the System Requirements table, in Home/Professional Edition, Free Space, Recommended, 2.15 GB to +661 MB, 3.95 GB to +1.8 GB, and 4.83 GB to +900 MB. ~2025-31238-85 (talk) 19:41, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. NotJamestack (talk) 19:52, 10 November 2025 (UTC)