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Title: What is Windows XP gold 2016?
Post by: Geek-9pm on March 22, 2017, 08:43:58 PM

There is no such thing!
But a yahoo search will give hundereds of matches.
On pnterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/197454764892514234/
On You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3yrA05zfgQ
On Computerworld:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2583447/microsoft-windows/microsoft-releases-windows-xp--gold--code-as--antitrust-case-goes-to-lower-court.html
By Jennifer DiSabatino and Patrick Thibodeau
Computerworld | Aug 24, 2001
Thisis one you need to read for the background of how this happended.

Quote

The same day that Microsoft Corp. is releasing the final version of its Windows XP operating system software, the company's antitrust case was returned to a lower court, where a new judge will consider remedies to impose on the vendor for its anticompetitive practices.
Amid buzzing helicopters and the glare of gold Zero Halliburton P5 attache cases at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus, Chairman Bill Gates and Jim Allchin, group vice president of Windows, were to officially hand over CDs containing the 'gold' code, or final version of the Windows XP operating system software, to six PC makers today.

Here we are now some 15 or 16 years later and the topic is still very warm.
Links to  ***censored  ***  and others such sites are not included here.  ::)

Somewhere I read one time XP was near 80 %  of all desktops in the world. :'(

Title: Re: What is Windows XP gold 2016?
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 22, 2017, 11:25:24 PM

"Windows XP 2016 Gold" is a pirated distribution of Windows XP, like "Windows XP Black Edition".

it has absolutely nothiing to do with the original RTM going "Gold".