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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on June 5, 2005.

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October 6, 2004	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
December 10, 2004	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
January 29, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
February 9, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
December 21, 2005	Featured article review	Kept
January 23, 2008	Featured article review	Demoted
May 13, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
July 21, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
January 10, 2015	Good article nominee	Not listed
June 24, 2018	Good article nominee	Listed
April 17, 2022	Good article reassessment	Kept

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Semi-protected edit request on 4 April 2025

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Change "One Asian country, Armenia still has very high Windows XP use at 75% use (while elsewhere, including in Africa, have by now under 1% use).[7]"

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"One Asian country, Armenia, still has very high Windows XP use at 75% use (while elsewhere, including in Africa, have by now under 1% use).[7]

Perhaps linking the Armenia page to the word "Armenia". Override8188 (talk) 02:03, 4 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Not done: Country pages are typically not linked per MOS:OL. – AllCatsAreGrey ^(talk) 23:03, 5 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 10 November 2025

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Change in the System Requirements table, in Home/Professional Edition, Free Space, Recommended, 2.15 GB to +661 MB, 3.95 GB to +1.8 GB, and 4.83 GB to +900 MB. ~2025-31238-85 (talk) 19:41, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. NotJamestack (talk) 19:52, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 13 August 2026

Latest comment: 50 minutes ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Not done – malformed request. Please follow the instructions at WP:Edit requests. If rather than showing specific before→after requests, you want to show the entire article after your changes (not the preferred way of proposing changes), put your proposed new version of the article in Talk:Windows XP/sandbox. I understand you want to update the latest release date and version; please link to a reliable source for the new version. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:54, 20 October 2026 (UTC)Reply