James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience of over half a million unique developers. In July '08 James left his job as Head of Development at a digital agency in London to focus his energies on developerFusion full-time.
Windows XP is the latest release in the windows series, and marks the final merging of the Windows 9x and the Windows NT product line. Obviously, this represents major cost savings from Microsoft's point of view, but what's the benefit for us?
The ultimate answer is stability; Windows XP is based on the Windows 2000 kernel, and is therefore far more stable than Windows 9x. At the same time, you get the great games and multimedia capabilities of Windows 98/ME. After taking the opportunity to format my hard disk, the Windows XP installation process was extremely painless.
Product Activation
After starting up for the first time, you reach its main controversial feature; the same Product Activation that was included with Office XP. You can activate Windows using a dial-up modem, the internet, or by phone. After launching Windows XP 30 times without activation, Windows XP will stop working. You won't have to reactivate unless you make a major hardware change (such as replacing your motherboard).
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