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windows xpXP is a tag that has been used by many products, most notably Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Office XP. XP is generally considered to be short for eXPerience, although the XP term has since been used by many other software products, where it does not have any additional meaning.

XP can also be used as an emoticon that signifies "laughing really hard while sticking out the tongue."

Typically though when one refers to XP is is generally in reference to the Windows XP operating system, which, despite its age (it was released in 2001) is still one of the most popular operating systems in operation today.

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