Post by wadmodderpudu on Apr 12, 2021 23:29:01 GMT
We all know that Windows XP was released in 2001 and how it was supported up until 2014, and how embedded variations of that operating system were supported up to 2019. We all know both the main & niche market editions, with the main editions were Home Edition & Professional, and the niche market editions being Media Center Edition, Tablet PC Edition, Embedded, & the rare Starter Edition. Others included the N, K & KN versions released in Europe & South Korea respectively to remove Windows Media Player and/or Windows Messenger, due to antitrust monopoly abuse from Microsoft in those countries.
However, There is a version of Windows XP that was only released in Japan that is even more or less rarer than the Starter Edition releases in many countries. This version of Windows XP is referred to as "Windows XP 20th Anniversary edition".
This version of Windows XP was released by Microsoft in Japan on December 9th 2005 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first Windows version (Windows 1.0 to be exact), and it came with replica installation CDs of Windows 95, 98, Me and 2000 (All of which that aren't supposed to work), Windows box origami, memorial stamps, memorial stickers, a memorial video from the man himself, and a special early "preview" version of Windows Vista. Microsoft in Japan also handed out freebies to a few lucky individuals. Fifty people would've been able to get in on the Windows Vista technical Beta, 20 would've got their packages autographed by Bill Gates, 150 would've been entered into a drawing for a frame for storing the discs, and 5 people would've got a free trip to tour Microsoft's headquarters out in Redmond, Washington.
Sadly, only 9,999 copies of this release are known to have been made, and any other information regarding this release is scarce, and whatever the CD-ROM contents includes other than the Windows XP operating system itself isn't currently known for right now.
However, there is an Amazon Japan listing of this rare version of Windows XP that you find, here's the link:
www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BY6CSY/250-6681159-6049041
If you live in Japan or if you're Japanese, please attempt to buy a copy of it and rip the disc contents into an ISO file or a MDF/MDS file, so that way this version might be able to be found media soon. I'd recommend anyone upload this rare Windows XP version to Internet Archive, so that way anyone can easily access it.
However, There is a version of Windows XP that was only released in Japan that is even more or less rarer than the Starter Edition releases in many countries. This version of Windows XP is referred to as "Windows XP 20th Anniversary edition".
This version of Windows XP was released by Microsoft in Japan on December 9th 2005 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first Windows version (Windows 1.0 to be exact), and it came with replica installation CDs of Windows 95, 98, Me and 2000 (All of which that aren't supposed to work), Windows box origami, memorial stamps, memorial stickers, a memorial video from the man himself, and a special early "preview" version of Windows Vista. Microsoft in Japan also handed out freebies to a few lucky individuals. Fifty people would've been able to get in on the Windows Vista technical Beta, 20 would've got their packages autographed by Bill Gates, 150 would've been entered into a drawing for a frame for storing the discs, and 5 people would've got a free trip to tour Microsoft's headquarters out in Redmond, Washington.
Sadly, only 9,999 copies of this release are known to have been made, and any other information regarding this release is scarce, and whatever the CD-ROM contents includes other than the Windows XP operating system itself isn't currently known for right now.
However, there is an Amazon Japan listing of this rare version of Windows XP that you find, here's the link:
www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BY6CSY/250-6681159-6049041
If you live in Japan or if you're Japanese, please attempt to buy a copy of it and rip the disc contents into an ISO file or a MDF/MDS file, so that way this version might be able to be found media soon. I'd recommend anyone upload this rare Windows XP version to Internet Archive, so that way anyone can easily access it.
