OpenXP

OpenXP is a project dedicated to upgrade Windows XP/Server 2003 experience, by including newer functionality derived from Windows Vista and later.

History

The project was created on February 5, 2023 by the lead developer Ash, via a MessengerGeek post, which included updated documentation for Windows Server 2003 source code compilation. The project started to gather interest and months later, on June 20, 2023, an official Discord server was created. Initially project was hosted on private Git server of one of members, but years later due to unexpected annihilation of latter, development of OpenXP have been moved into another Git server, uplifted by Ash itself.

Soon after, in 2024, a Reddit post was created about the project, which caused a massive interest growth, increasing Discord server members from ~150 to almost 600 members. Later, a video was created by Neptuned, which also expanded the interest in OpenXP.

In November 2024, OpenXP got it's own official website - https://theopenxp.org, which includes the latest newsletter and project resources, among with this wiki.

Currently, OpenXP releases patches for Windows Server 2003 source code, and in future plans to release relatively new and enhanced version of core of Windows Server to audience, with source code for public development.