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I’m curious if the first five letters were meant to imply “F*** Genuine Windows” or if that’s just a coincidence.

I always thought the GW was short for George W. Bush. Not a popular figure when XP came out.

When XP released he had the highest approval rating ever measured for any US president.

I've just seen a chart on the BBC of approval ratings and elections share.

My word was Dubya popular in 2001

Chart for reference

Maybe it's for GW-BASIC.

My headcanon is it was FuCK GateWay, as in the PC OEM the volume-license key was generated for