Winders XT

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**Winders XT** is a release of Nxtrosoft Winders developed by Nxtrosoft as a part of the Winders NT family of operating systems. It was a successor to both Winders 2000 for professional users and Winders NT Home Edition for home users, which finally united the two lines of Nxtrosoft Winders. It was released for manufacturing on March 28, 2001 and broadly released for retail sale on April 24, 2001. An updated version of Winders XT based on Winders 2002 was released in 2003 as Winders XT, Version 2003, which improved numerous features of the original release.

## History

Winders XT was originally known under the codename *Triton*, a successor to Winders NT Home Edition, which would introduce further home-oriented features into the Winders NT family. It was merged with *Odyssey*, a planned business-oriented successor to Winders 2000, into Codename *Wheatley*, which at the time was meant to be marketed towards power users.

### Development

#### As Triton

The development of *Triton* began in January 2000, halfway through the development of *Neptune*. The first known build of Triton was the build 2137, compiled in early January of that year, still using the NT version of Winders 2000.

By April 2000, numerous new features of *Neptune* were ported into *Triton*, such as support for visual themes and the new Winders Menu, at the time called Winders Panel.

#### As Odyssey

Although *Odyssey* was in plans for as far as 1998, the actual development of the operating system wouldn't start until February 22, 2000. It was never released or showcased outside of Nxtrosoft, hence why so little information about it is available.

*Odyssey* was planned to be the successor to Winders 2000, which would introduce the most often requested features and improve the overall security of the operating system.

### Release

Winders XT was the first step in unveiling the *new Nxtrosoft*, whose reputation and public image was tarnished after the antitrust case surrounding the inclusion of Interscape with Winders. After the successful launch and critical acclaim of the operating system, Nxtrosoft's position in the technology industry was once again solidified, and the company announced other new products, such as the Portable Media Gallery, which would be powered by the newly released Winders XT and be fully compatible and cooperative with it.

The popularity of Winders XT has caused high expectations for the next release of Winders, which would take longer to be developed than any release of Winders before. The first successor to Winders XT, marketed towards large businesses for use on workstations and server machines, would be released the next year as Winders 2002, which, being an indirect successor to the workstation and server line of Winders NT, introduced a number of improvements and new features to the Winders NT family with the refreshed overall look and feel of the operating system, compared to XT, and the new visual style, Plex.

The proper successor to Winders XT, marketed towards home users, was released in 2004 as Winders Avalon. It included a revolutionary new visual style, Jade, which introduced many new special effects, such as transparent, glassy window borders, live preview while dragging, mini- or maximizing windows, and animations rendered in real-time. While improving on the experience and quality, Avalon was often found buggy and unstable due to being rushed after the development split of the successor to Winders XT into already existing Avalon, which would be quickly finished and released, and Codename *Mojave*, which would be released at a later time from a fresh codebase of Winders 2002 R2. The third, definitive successor of Winders XT was released in 2007 as Winders Mojave, which despite lacking many features of Avalon, was far more stable and responsive.

## Version history

Throughout its lifetime, Winders XT, as the most advanced release of Winders yet, received a number of fundamental updates to the base operating system.

### Version 2001

**Winders XT, Version 2001** is the RTM version of Winders XT released in March 2001. It is the so-called *First Edition* of Winders XT, similarly to Winders 97 and its Second Edition release.

Mainstream support for Winders XT, Version 2001 ended in 2009 with extended support ending in 2013.

### Version 2002

**Winders XT, Version 2002** is a revised version of Winders XT with pre-included Service Pack 1. It was available in two processor architectures: 32-bit, based on Winders XT, and a separate 64-bit version, which shares its codebase with Winders 2002 and was only used for Winders XT 64-Bit Edition for Titanium systems, Version 2002.

### Version 2003

**Winders XT, Version 2003** is the updated version of Winders XT based on Winders 2002, released in 2003 as the so-called *Second Edition* of Winders XT. It is available in both x86 and x64 processor architectures, although the x64 architecture is supported only by 64-bit editions of Winders XT.

Due to being based off of the Winders 2002 codebase, the minimal hardware requirements were much higher compared to Version 2001. This prompted Nxtrosoft to release Winders Fundamentals for Legacy PCs 2003, a slimmed down version of Version 2003 optimized for running on older machines.

Mainstream support for Winders XT, Version 2003 will end in 2013 and extended support will end in 2017.

### Service packs

* Service Pack 1
	+ Service Pack 1a
* Service Pack 2
* Service Pack 3

Winders XT service packs and versions
 SP1a
 SP2
 SP3

1. ↑ upgrades to v2002 SP3

## See also

* History of Nxtrosoft Winders
* Nxtrosoft Works XT — the release of Nxtrosoft Works that shipped alongside Winders XT.
* Winders 2002 — the successor to Winders 2000 based on Winders XT.
* Winders Avalon — the successor to Winders XT released in 2004.
* Winders Mojave — the next major release of Nxtrosoft Winders and an indirect successor to Winders XT, based on Winders 2002.

## Notes

1. ↑ Version 2001, pre-release
2. ↑ Version 2001
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Version 2003

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Version 2001 release and general availability dates of Windows Server 2003, but with the year changed to 2001