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Freedows OS was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 13 January 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Microsoft Windows on 27 January 2013. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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I want to add windows xp Cookiemonster005 (talk) 18:55, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's mentioned in the article, in a section titled "Home versions of Windows XP". Does this header need tweaked? —C.Fred (talk) 18:59, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Uptime?

Reliability is hard to compare, but maximum uptime is useful indicator. What is best (known) uptime for each version of Windows? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.64.112.166 (talk) 20:10, 15 December 2016 (UTC) XP: 131 days[reply]

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