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In this video I demonstrate the setup and UI of Windows Whistler build 2475 – one of the first builds of Windows Whistler to identify itself by the operating system’s recently-announced official name, “Windows XP”. This build was released to testers on 24th May 2001.

In this video I demonstrate the setup and UI of Windows Whistler build 2428 (beta 2) which would eventually evolve into Windows XP. This build was shown to reviewers on 9th February 2001 – the same day that Microsoft announced the official name of Whistler – “Windows XP”.

In this video I demonstrate the setup and UI of Windows Whistler build 2419 – the third post-Beta 1 build of Whistler – which would eventually evolve into Windows XP. This build was first released to testers on 23rd January 2001 and was one of four post-Beta 1, pre-Beta 2…

In this video I demonstrate the setup and UI of Windows Whistler build 2416 – the second post-Beta 1 build of Whistler – which would eventually evolve into Windows XP. This build was first released to testers on 16th January 2001 and was one of four post-Beta 1, pre-Beta 2…

In this video I demonstrate the setup and UI of Windows Whistler build 2410 – the first post-Beta 1 build of Whistler – which would eventually evolve into Windows XP. This build was first released to testers on 4th January 2001 and was one of four post-Beta 1, pre-Beta 2…

(Crikey, I sound so young here. :|) In this video I demonstrate the setup and UI of Windows Whistler Beta 1, build 2296, which would eventually evolve into Windows XP. This was the first of the Beta 1 builds and was released on 31st October 2000.

We continue our investigation into the development of Windows XP with Windows Codename “Whistler” build 2250. This build of “Whistler” was compiled on the 28th June 2000 and was shown at the Professional Developers Conference 2000. This makes it the first “Whistler” build to be shared with developers outside of…

Following the cancellation of Neptune, Microsoft put together a team of developers to start work on Whistler. This build is one of the first glimpses into their earliest developments. The long and short of it is that this equates to “not much”, but even the world’s (possibly) most-loved operating system…

In this video I begin our investigation into the development of Windows XP (complete with added dog barking) with build number 5111 of an entirely separate but nevertheless seminal Windows project: Neptune.