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Windows XP 2022 was a heavily critised windows release. It removed many features from its predecessor, Windows XP 2021 Edition. It was also released over two years after its predecessor. Many things included were the removal of the taskbar (with the same Clock app added from Windows 3.0), the Start Button itself being an app, and incompatibility of phones, such as the Windows Phone Gates Edition XP Late 2021 from the previous year. It also crashed extremely often on all devices, using up 98% of the CPU, and keeping every application always open. The only "good" new feature was Dark mode, which turned the always white wallpaper into an always black one, and vice versa.

The OS merged NotePad and WordPad into "NotePad", which lacked the ability to change font, font size and other things. Highlighting in yellow was possible, but not other colours, nor was changing text colour. To do all of these things, one had to own a Windows Phone Gates Edition XP Late 2021 or a Windows Phone Gates Edition Mid-2022. This sparked critisism, as the phones only had 0.5% market share. 95% was iOS, 3% was Linux, 1.4% was Android, and 0.6% were others, including Windows Phone. One had to install the app store from Internet Explorer, then wait 2 hours to install, then wait one minute to open it up for the first time, then wait 3 more hours to sync it to the computer. Then one had to search for "bold notepad", which was an extension which gave more options in NotePad. However, these issues were fixed in Service Pack 4, which boosted speed by using only 1% of CPU.



Windows XP 2022 Desktop. Note the old Windows XP and no Windows 10 look.



Windows XP 2021 desktop for comparison purposes. Notice the modern design in the 2021 version, and primitive one in 2022.

Alpha
9 December 2021

Beta 1
18 August 2022

Remove taskbar.

Beta 2
1 December 2022

Start and Clock apps added.

Service Pack 1
5 December 2022

Horizontal start menu; Sync to phone, no more WordPad

Service Pack 2
30 December 2022

App store on phone; Bold Italic Underline on NotePad.

Service Pack 3
2 January 2023

Books, Maps, YouTube, apps added. Offline compatibility of entire machine at all times.

Service Pack 4
3 March 2023

App store without phone, boost performance, Edge instead of internet explorer.

Critiscised for dropping support on under 2-month-old devices.

Service Pack 5
15 March 2023

Overlap windows

Service Pack 5S
17 March 2023

St Patricks Day theme, optional to install

Service Pack 5C
23 December 2023

Christmas Day theme, optional to install

Service Pack 6
1 January 2024

Message to upgrade to Windows XP 2024 or Windows XP 2023, or downgrade to Windows XP 2021, Windows XP 2020, or Windows 10.

Fixes bug where Edge is the entire system in Service Pack 5, 5S and 5C. However, the problem was improved on in Windows XP 2023.

Service Pack 6+
2 January 2024

Quicker download speeds

Files app separate from NotePad