Dell Inc. yesterday bowed to pressure from customers and dumped its Vista-only policy for consumer PCs by adding Windows XP as an operating option on half a dozen machines. Dell now offers Windows XP ...

Windows XP has been on the market for over four years, and as time ticks away, it's running out on Windows XP Home, which will soon be obsolete unless support changes are made.<BR><BR> Story.

For years, software makers invented operating systems and applications that required more computing power, leading to a demand for new chips and other hardware--a cycle that has been likened to the ...

Yes, 32bit Windows can work with more than 32bits worth of memory, thanks to PAE (and no, it's not a "hack" and it doesn't make things slower: if you're running XP SP2 on a recent processor with XP ...

Microsoft Thursday said it would continue to offer via OEMs Windows XP Home for ultra-low-cost computers until 2010 or when the next version of the operating system ships. Microsoft Thursday said it ...

Ask most anyone who runs Windows at home what edition of the operating system he or she is using, and odds are you’ll hear a fairly predictable roster of responses: Windows XP Home, XP Professional, ...

And while they expect more problems after SP2 for Windows XP Professional becomes available over Automatic Update (AU) on Aug. 25, partners are preparing for a messy week following the broad ...

The addition of a five-year "extended support" phase to Windows XP will take effect in May 2009. In Microsoft parlance, extended support is the period when all support is fee-based and non-security ...

When Windows 10 went out of support last month, roughly ten years after release, many were confused about whether to upgrade or keep running their existing iteration. Experts who recommended upgrading ...

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this feeling, ...