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From memory XP wasn't well received at first. It just hung around so long that people got really comfortable with it and didn't want to change.

• ams6110 13y ago
  Because it didn't offer much that Windows 2000 didn't provide?
  • Encosia 13y ago
    I don't know this for a fact, but I think very few people were coming from Win2k to XP. Win2k was relatively niche, even in business, from what I can remember of my experience back then. It was essentially only the people who were running NT 4.0 Workstation before who used Win2k in the interim between that and XP.
    • pdw 13y ago
      It was getting popular in hobbyist circles (probably mostly in pirated form), especially after new PCs started shipping with Windows ME.
• dkuntz2 13y ago
  But at least with XP you could recreate the 9x interface without installing additional software.