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=== Deprecations and removals === | === Deprecations and removals === | ||
Windows XP drops the ability to upgrade from both [[Windows NT 3.51]] and [[Windows 95]], requiring at least [[Windows 98]] or [[Windows NT 4.0]]. Subsequent service packs would later gradually drop the ability to upgrade from | Windows XP drops the ability to upgrade from both [[Windows NT 3.51]] and [[Windows 95]], requiring at least [[Windows 98]] or [[Windows NT 4.0]]. Subsequent service packs would later gradually drop the ability to upgrade from Windows NT 4.0, 98, [[Windows 98 SE|98 SE]] and [[Windows Me|Me]], requiring [[Windows 2000]] at minimum. Support for the [[w:i486|486]] CPUs and the [[w:SGI Visual Workstation|SGI Visual Workstation]] 320 and 540 computers was dropped during development. | ||
Varying networking protocols such as [[w:AppleTalk|AppleTalk]], [[w:NetDDE|NetDDE]], [[w:NetBIOS#NetBEUI|NetBEUI]] and [[w:Data Link Control|Data Link Control]] have been deprecated or otherwise removed from the operating system. Several communications applications such as the [[Phone Dialer]] and [[Windows NetMeeting]] have been deprecated, although they remain accessible in the operating system. Support for running OS/2- and POSIX-based applications was dropped from Windows, with [[w:Windows Services for UNIX|Windows Services for UNIX]] acting as a replacement, whereas the DriveSpace compression utility was removed in favor of native NTFS compression support. | Varying networking protocols such as [[w:AppleTalk|AppleTalk]], [[w:NetDDE|NetDDE]], [[w:NetBIOS#NetBEUI|NetBEUI]] and [[w:Data Link Control|Data Link Control]] have been deprecated or otherwise removed from the operating system. Several communications applications such as the [[Phone Dialer]] and [[Windows NetMeeting]] have been deprecated, although they remain accessible in the operating system. Support for running OS/2- and POSIX-based applications was dropped from Windows, with [[w:Windows Services for UNIX|Windows Services for UNIX]] acting as a replacement, whereas the DriveSpace compression utility was removed in favor of native NTFS compression support. | ||