Users welcomed the 2001 launch of Windows XP, which was more stable, more attractive and more user friendly than the Microsoft operating systems that preceded it, including Windows 95, Windows 2000 and Windows ME. The new system made burning CDs easier, along with managing music files and photos. Icons and text for XP were more bubbly and graphical than previous versions and looked more like the Macintosh operating systems. But XP required so much memory that only computers less than two years old, for the most part, could easily handle it.