It's gradually been losing ground, but Microsoft's 10-year-old operating system is still the most popular version of Windows with a 47 percent share of the market. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

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 ...

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 ...

First and foremost, I don't recommend doing this yourself. I created an isolated virtual machine and used a firewall to ...

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 ...

Microsoft may have retired Windows XP, but one of China’s leading security vendors is trying to keep the OS threat-free, and rolling out protection software to hundreds of millions of users in the ...

During the last 12 months, agencies posted nearly 200 solicitations for products compliant with the operating system, which will lose Microsoft's security support on April 8. During the past year, ...

Do you have a favorite Windows? It’s not something most folks think about unless you’ve experienced the rollercoaster Microsoft has put many PC fans through over the years. There’s a lot of nostalgia ...

Microsoft's Windows XP remains the most-used operating system in the world, new figures suggest. Stats from NetApplications reveal that the decade-old software saw a small resurgence in January, ...

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 ...