Complex sentence: Compared with other releases of Windows, Windows Me had a short shelf-life of just over a year; it was soon replaced by the Windows NT-based Windows XP, which was launched on October 25,2001.
Split into simpler sentences: Compared with other releases of Windows, Windows Me had a short shelf-life of just over a year. It was soon replaced by the Windows NT-based Windows XP, which was launched on October 25,2001.