Fax Console in Windows XP was Microsoft’s built-in way to send and receive faxes without a physical fax machine, as long as your PC had a dial-up modem. Introduced with the original Windows XP release in 2001 and updated through Service Pack 2 in 2004, it gave you a simple inbox/outbox view for all your faxes, basically like an email client for paper. You could create cover pages, track status, and even archive old faxes, which felt high-tech back when home offices were running on beige towers and 56k connections. It wasn’t flashy, but for small businesses and anyone juggling documents in the early 2000s, Fax Console quietly got the job done.