Hongu, inyaya yekutarisa munhoroondo, asi Windows XP yakashandiswa nevakawanda vedu kwemakore akawanda, saka ruzha urwu runodzosa ndangariro zhinji. Mushure mezvose, yaive iyi Microsoft system yaiperekedza chizvarwa chese chevashandisi vePC. Vamwe vese, kunyanya vadiki, vanogona kuzoteerera kune imwe yechokwadi inonzwika ruzha mukusiyana kwayo kwakawanda.
Ndizvo chaizvo zvakaita musanganiswa uyu. Yekutanga yepakutanga inoteverwa nekugadziriswa kwayo kwakasiyana-siyana, iyo inowanzonakidza chaizvo. Kune huwandu hwe23 yavo muvhidhiyo. Windows XP (inonyanya kuzivikanwa se "xpéčka") ndeye inoshanda sisitimu kubva munhevedzano Windows NT kubva kuMicrosoft, iyo yakaburitswa kumashure muna 2001. Yakanga yakagadzirirwa kushandiswa zvakanyanya pamba kana bhizinesi makomputa emunhu, malaptop kana media center. Chidimburiko che "XP" chinomirira eEXPerience. Iyo sisitimu inogovera zvikamu zvakakosha nehurongwa Windows Sevha 2003.
Yakanga iri iyo inotungamira sisitimu yekushandisa kweanopfuura makore gumi uye panguva iyo Microsoft yakatanga kuitsiva nehurongwa Windows Vista (Mbudzi 2006) akashandisa hurongwa Windows XP inenge 87% yevashandisi. Yaive yakanyanya kushandiswa sisitimu yekushandisa kusvika pakati pa2012, payakaipfuura Windows 7, asi ichiri kushandiswa makore mashanu mushure mekupera kwekutengesa Windows XP painoda kusvika 30% yemakomputa.
