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 ...

COMMENTARY-- Dear Jim and Bill and Steve: I am writing in the hope I can convince you to make a significant change in the activation and licensing scheme for Windows XP, particularly the Home Edition.

It may be coming half a decade late, but an independent software seller is now offering a service pack for Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), which Microsoft itself never got around to doing. And just as ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Launching his company’s biggest product in six years, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Thursday touted the Windows XP operating system as the harbinger of a new era in more ...

If the reason you were intending to leave XP behind was because it just isn’t cool enough, then think again. According to a report the United States navy is one of the government bodies in America ...

A friend uses AutoCAD for his business. He has a machine running Windows 7 Ultimate, which runs AutoCAD 2011 fine. He has another guy working on a machine running Windows XP Media Center Edition. He ...

Microsoft’s plan to convert those enterprise XP holdouts into new licenses for Windows 7 is to woo the consumer, using its typical tactic of offering free upgrades to Windows 7 to folks who buy Vista ...

It wasn’t meant to be this way. Windows XP, now no longer supported, wasn’t meant to be popular. For all its popularity and sustained usage, people seem to have forgotten something important about it: ...