Windows XP has been one of the most anticipated software releases of the past year or two. There wasn’t a lot of information about “Windows Whistler”, the code name for XP, for some time. Most people didn’t even know anything about it until a few months before Office XP was released. Windows XP is the next OS in line after Windows 2000 (technically) and was designed to bridge the two architectures (NT and Windows 9x--or DOS) into one common operating system. Windows 2000 was built on NT technology, which was traditionally used for businesses and servers, whereas Windows ME was built on Windows 9x technology, which was traditionally used in homes.