Just a day before Microsoft Corp. drops support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company announced on Monday that people running some versions of Windows 7 can “downgrade” to the aged ...

Warning for Windows XP users: The end is near. No, that doesn't mean computers using the 12-year-old operating system will suddenly crash and spread calamity throughout the Internet. But considering ...

On the eve of Microsoft pulling the plug on support for Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2, company officials announced they are extending downgrade rights for Windows XP. Originally, downgrade rights -- ...

Today marks the last day of official support for XP. So what does that mean for the aged operating system and its many steadfast users? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

Change: It’s inevitable in and of itself, and it’s inevitable that some people don’t like it. Ars Technica cites a report from Net Market Share contending that Microsoft’s almost-13-year-old operating ...

Windows XP may have been largely developed in a different millennium, but it's not going into retirement without a fight. Even as Microsoft promotes Windows 8, its latest operating system, Windows XP ...

Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 next week – on Tuesday, July 13 – meaning that customers have to either upgrade to newer versions of the software or stop ...

A Windows developer has successfully compiled both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 from source code leaked online last week. Last week, a 43GB collection of Microsoft source code was released as a ...

As the end of Microsoft Windows XP support nears, CRN highlights the Windows XP security risks and provides tips for migrating customers from Windows XP to Windows 7 or Windows 8. On April 8, 2014, ...