With Microsoft on the cusp of its next OS leap forward, the 13-year-old XP still is more popular than Windows 8 and 8.1 ...

Even though Microsoft retired Windows XP two years ago, an estimated 181 million PCs around the world ran the crippled operating system last month, according to data from a web metrics vendor. Windows ...

We have an interesting situation. A department has x PowerEdge servers with applications installed running Windows XP. These applications run perfectly fine under XP, none of the servers require ...

After the update, WGA notifications for XP will be the same as they are for Windows Vista service pack 1, said Alex Kochis, senior product manager in the Windows Genuine Advantage group, in a Tuesday ...

Microsoft Corp. has had to create a new build of Windows XP Professional for computer makers because the six-year-old operating system’s continued popularity has nearly exhausted the supply of product ...

You really, really need to dump Windows XP. No, really. Windows XP was great, and many users still love the operating system, but…it’s more than a decade old. At the rate technology evolves, that ...

Windows 7 has overtaken Windows XP as the world's most-used operating system. StatCounter's latest figures confirm that Microsoft's most recent OS is being used by 40.21% of global PC owners, while ...

Microsoft is giving Windows XP another stay of execution. The operating system was supposed to have been phased out by now, but since Windows Vista doesn’t run well on netbooks, and since netbooks are ...

CNET Software held a new operating system ” death match ” pitting Mac OS X 10.1 against Windows XP. And the winner is … Mac OS X. When it comes to installation, CNET says that the Mac offers up its ...

Microsoft is requiring consumers who want to use the latest version of Windows Media Player to upgrade to the new Windows XP operating system--a move that is ...