Windows EP 2020

2013
in April 2013, one year before the end of support for XP, the CEO of Microsoft greenlit an updated version of Windows XP, which was initially known internally as Windows New Experience. It initially offered 3 themes, that of the Windows XP Luna theme, the brand new Windows New Experience theme, and the Windows 7 Aero theme. The project was developed within the span of only a few builds, primarily due to the additional features being mostly cosmetic in nature. In September 2013, an additional theme, the Windows 8.1 theme, was added, bringing the total count of new themes to 4.

2014
In March of 2014, Steve Ballmer stepped down as CEO of Microsoft and was replaced by Satya Nadella. Due to the upheaval of the internal corporate structure of Microsoft, the New Experience project's release was delayed until early 2015.

On April 22, 2014, the New Experience team announced that the Windows NT kernel would have its major version number incremented to NT 7.0. This announcement coincided with release of development build 18913 during May 2014. A new browser, codenamed Project Spartan, was also announced, which would later become Microsoft Edge.

At around Christmas of 2014, the MetroXP project was renamed to Windows XP 2016 Edition. During this time, the New Experience team announced that they would shift focus from New Experience's core to focus on the development of a new streaming platform called Microsoft TV. This new platform was expected to be integrated into New Experience, and would allow for additional streaming capabilities to be added throughout the OS.

2015
On January 1, 2015, Microsoft announced that New Experience would contain an additional 2 new themes. Unlike the previous 4 themes, these new themes would go beyond simple cosmetic improvements and would implement additional functionality within the system. These new themes were dubbed the Mac Desktop theme and the Windows 10 theme. The Mac Desktop theme would attempt to replicate the look and feel of the classic Mac OS desktop, and the Windows 10 theme would integrate several Windows 10 features such as Cortana and advertisements for mobile games in the start menu. The 6 themes were considered revolutionary by many and were expected to change the ergonomics of the desktop environment significantly within New Experience.

Before the pre-insider editions of New Experience began to ship, however, New Experience was observed to have many severe system-wide bugs and issues, such as a sound problem caused by bugs introduced into WASAPI, several kernel bugcheck conditions (Blue Screen of Death), a critical flaw in the new cryptographic API causing severe security flaws, and many other issues. Because of this, Microsoft announced that the release date of New Experience would be once again pushed back, this time until 2019.

2016

Around February 2016, Microsoft announced that the issues in Windows New Experience were so numerous and severe that development could not reasonably continue without a near total overhaul. Because of this, the New Experience codebase was almost entirely scrapped, and development restarted with Windows 8's kernel as the foundation. Microsoft TV was removed at this time, as the previous integration attempts had proven to only worsen the issues within the old codebase.

2017edit | edit source
Windows New Experience was renamed to Windows EP 2020 Edition. The themes from the previous codebase of New Experience were ported over at this time, and stability throughout the system was significantly improved.

during the July 22, 2017 live, Microsoft announced 2 OS:

Windows 10 Starter then renamed during the October 2020 live to Windows 10 ULCPC

Windows XP 2020 Edition

2018edit | edit source
Around January 2018, Microsoft plan the release for July 5, 2019 but postponed October 25, 2018 to September 30, 2019 due to bugs. Those nostalgic for Windows XP have Windows 10 Home or Pro with Insider in 1809 a small optional update between 5 options: Windows XP 2020 Edition Alpha, Windows 95 2020 Edition, Windows 2000 2020 Edition, Windows 7 2020 Edition or Windows 10 Ultimate (enhanced version of Windows 10).

Soundsedit | edit source
Startup : [1]

Shutdown : [2]

Critical Stop : https://freesound.org/people/PearceL/sounds/361603/

Windows Exclamation : https://freesound.org/people/CBeeching/sounds/116907/

New Update notification : https://freesound.org/people/nikki_bass/sounds/404804/

e-mail sent (OUTLOOK) : https://freesound.org/people/CJDeets/sounds/449642/

Notification : https://freesound.org/people/jochen1988/sounds/420642/

Battery low : https://freesound.org/people/Dodgy%20C/sounds/72046/

Battery critical : https://freesound.org/people/tkky/sounds/524281/

Ring1 : https://freesound.org/people/lluiset7/sounds/367447/

Ring2 : https://freesound.org/people/stomachache/sounds/157299/

Ring3 : https://freesound.org/people/xephron/sounds/386453/

Ring4 : https://freesound.org/people/jourblue/sounds/344365/

Ring5 : https://freesound.org/people/SSS_Samples/sounds/432809/

Ring6 : https://freesound.org/people/PITCHEDsenses/sounds/517368/

Ring7 : https://freesound.org/people/BillyRazOr/sounds/400609/

Ring8 : https://freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/24929/

Ring9 : https://freesound.org/people/Freezeman/sounds/153213/

Ring10 : https://freesound.org/people/eliasheuninck/sounds/170464/

Ring11 : https://freesound.org/people/Ultranova105/sounds/136757/

Ring12 : https://freesound.org/people/shydux5/sounds/493081/

Logout : https://freesound.org/people/dippy_/sounds/220897/

Logon : Same of Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10

Editionsedit | edit source
This is a list of Editions, it may vary in price, features and compatible functionality.

Starter (since September 2019) ($39,95)edit | edit source
reserved for developing country and for the who want the look of Windows XP but cannot afford it, for the price of $39, it will only contain Windows 7 features like the start menu and others, and will not use Office 2019, but only Office 2007. It can use the clock but no digital. No Paint 3D before SP2. (4,060,685 selled as of June 26, 2020).

4.05GB ISO

Home Basic (since September 2019) ($79,99)edit | edit source
A Home version becomes interesting, which can use Windows XP icons but Windows 10 style. The iconic operating system can use more modern functions with the digital clock and Office 2019, (4,002,850 selled as of June 26, 2020)

4.68GB ISO

Home Premiumedit | edit source
The iconic operating system can use the return of the iconic Media Center, reserved for premium or better can use the new streaming from Microsoft TV. Will be able to know thousands of series like Pokemon or La Casa de Papel, will be able to merge Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and others. (1,909,793 selled as of June 26, 2020)

5.00GB ISO

Luxe (since December 2019) ($209,99)edit | edit source
Luxe is the high-end edition, it can use all the features of Microsoft TV, the Windows 10X look and everything. (404,448 selled as of June 26, 2020)

5.90GB

Maxi Ultimate (April 2020 only) ($339,99)edit | edit source
Only 20,000 copies will be sold, but it will be sold exclusively and optimized for high-end PCs. It now includes features like the task display which could add to this edition. On this edition use the new Microsoft map called Microsoft Maps, even better than Google Maps.. with new version with detection of interuped and sensor is working stable, robust, traditional, new windows xp 2020 maxi ultimate..

6.03GB

Beta44 (5-29 May 2019) ($519,99)edit | edit source
Limited at 60 copies for celebrate the 44th anniversary of Microsoft.

Beta (May-September 2019) [$499.99]edit | edit source
Limited to 600 copies per beta version with an RTM copy included

The final beta, released August 24, 2019, commemorates Windows XP's 18th anniversary.

10M Limited Edition (June-July 2020) [$479]edit | edit source
Limited to 2,000 copies, 10M edition was sold to commemorate the sale of over 10 million copies of Windows XP

Additional features:


 * 4 new exclusive themes (Windows XP, Windows 10, Windows XP 2020 Edition and Windows 7)
 * Older icon styling in the Windows XP and Windows 7 Themes
 * Windows Movie Maker 3.5
 * Classic Reversi