There are two main types of Windows users in the world. Which kind are you: Windows XP or Windows Vista? The recent news that testers at Devil Mountain Software found Microsoft’s beta of Windows XP ...

Microsoft confirmed yesterday that the new Office 2103 will not run on older PCs powered by Windows XP or Vista. “The new Office will work with Windows 7 and Windows 8,” a Microsoft spokesperson said ...

One of the dreaded tasks of getting a new PC or laptop is updating the shiny new machine with existing contacts, pictures, and files from that old and aging PC running Windows XP. In this quick guide ...

In a strictly logical sense, Windows 7 is an upgrade to the version of Windows that preceded it–which is, of course, Windows Vista.As a practical matter, however, most of the people who may buy ...

New tests have revealed that XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1. Vista's first service pack, to be released early next year, ...

Bill Veghte, Microsoft's senior vice president of Online Services & Windows Business Group, has written a letter addressed to "Windows Customers" in which he explains his company's plans around the ...

Now that the final version of Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing, it's time to find out how much of an improvement or not it will make over its predecessors, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Microsoft has made XP Service Pack 3 available to Windows users. And as Don Reisinger points out, it's a worthy upgrade to Vista. Don Reisinger CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist ...

Cue the OS flamewar theme song -- there's more potential fuel for the Vista hating fires in a recent set of speed tests. Although neither is available to the public yet, earlier reports suggest that ...

Part 1 of this four-part series details the steps to acquire and install the beta edition of Windows 7. Part 2 takes a closer look at the OS’s new features. Part 3 assesses the pros and cons of ...

Bad news for owners of dedicated retro rigs: Steam is dropping support for Windows XP and Vista on January 1, 2019, Valve announced this week. And the deadline isn’t just for feature updates. If ...