Talk:XP

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um its also a smile like xD but this is a replacement for :P gussing mostly couse peole think that stands for lick but havnt people stuck there tung ou and said naaah

Windows XP

Shouldn't the detailed explanation about its name be in the actual article on Windows XP itself, in its own section, and not here? Myrdred 01:51, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect this page to Windows, damn people. I mean damn. Come on.

There's a far more venomous discussion in the Vista redirect. I would say the case for redirecting Vista to Windows Vista is stronger than the case for redirecting XP to Windows XP, since being a two letter acronym, there are more common usages of XP. However, i am very surprised that Athlon XP is listed at the top, not Windows XP, especially since although Athlon XP reportedly means "eXtreme Performance", it's probably was just an attempt to jump on the Windows XP bandwagon.

Why should it redirect to Windows XP when it could redirect to Office XP.91.110.172.127 (talk) 19:31, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved -- JHunterJ (talk) 04:24, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

XP → XP (disambiguation) – So that XP can redirect to Windows XP. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 14:27, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Looks like a good idea in paper. However, there are problems under following criteria:
- Interests: Windows XP is no longer sold in stores anymore, even with extended supported by Windows. Speaking of extended support, it will end in 2014; Windows XP may still work, but it will no longer be supported. Vista and 7 are concurrent versions still on sale.
- Usage: April 2008 was biggest; April 2009 lost 25%; April 2010 lost 17%; April 2011 lost 10%; this year's April lost 10%. From 2008 to 2012, it lost almost two-thirds of the April 2008 viewers. Next year may lose more. 2014, which ends support for Windows XP, could be worse.
- Ambiguity: XP is more ambiguous than it was before; I have recently created XP (Windows) as a redirect to Windows XP. Also, the disambiguation page lost almost 78% of 2008 viewers.
- Long-term significance: Hmm.... hard to determine, as Microsoft Windows OS is more significant than the XP itself. Many versions come and go, but the OS lives on.... until Bill Gates would retire it for another, like Microsoft Tree?
- Familiarity: Currently, Windows XP is familiar. However, how will it be familiar in the next five years?

--George Ho (talk) 15:40, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support. The OS dominates the results if you google XP -wikipedia. XP is currently the most used operating system. To ask, "will it be familiar in the next five years?" is to look into the WP:CRYSTALBALL. Kauffner (talk) 04:18, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose usage as meaning Windows is dropping off and continues to fall, and there are several other meanings, some of which have continuing longterm significance, like complexity class. 70.49.124.225 (talk) 04:42, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

O, sorry for deleting that text before, Anon. I was on an alternative and clunky system; things got mixed up. Noetica^Tea? 11:48, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. It is a very partial argument, to claim that any one usage "dominates". A broader and much more important consideration: how are the worldwide readers of a serious encyclopedia helped more: under the existing arrangement (in which all affected articles have adequate precision), or under the proposed arrangement (in which the supposedly most important article of the set lacks adequate precision)? There are 11 articles apart form Windows XP that appear to have some claim on "XP". How is anyone served by the proposed move? How are even those who are aiming for the operating system Windows XP served? They pretty well all know that it is a variant of Windows; and typing "Windows" in as a search on Wikipedia, they get the article they want as a prominently displayed suggestion. Noetica^Tea? 04:52, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: I'm not convinced that Windows XP is more sought than all the other usages combined. Leave the dab page at base name. PamD 19:14, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose'; maybe ten years ago, I'd agree that the OS was the primary topic for "XP", but not now, two and almost three generations removed from XP's heyday. Powers ^T 19:53, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.