XP's share dipped slightly in April, but the decade-old operating system still reigns over Windows 7 as the top desktop platform. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

With a 46 percent market share, Windows XP still dominates the OS landscape, but Windows 7 keeps inching up, according to new data from NetApplications. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney ...

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 Corp. is finally pulling the plug on a piece of technology that has refused to go away. On Tuesday, the software giant will stop supporting Windows XP, the still ubiquitous computer ...

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 ...

There are three months to go for Windows XP. The ancient operating system is leaving extended support on April 8, at which point Microsoft will no longer ship free security fixes. XP itself isn’t the ...

In a Monday post to Microsoft's TechNet forums, Chris Keroack, Windows XP SP3 release manager, said Microsoft will release XP SP3 via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center on April 29, and ...

Tick, tick, tick, tick. That sound you hear is the clock winding down on the life of the Windows XP operating system. As of today, you have less than two years left until Microsoft will no longer ...

Despite warnings, Windows XP still prevails. Windows XP is no longer getting any public updates from Microsoft, but the company's decision to stop supporting the over 12 year old operating system ...

Windows XP first went on sale ten years ago today. In that span, it has become the desktop OS of choice with a worldwide install base of as much as 80 percent. Here’s looking at you XP. XP was ...

CNET Software held a new operating system ” death match ” pitting Mac OS X 10.1 against Windows XP. And the winner is … Mac OS X. When it comes to installation, CNET says that the Mac offers up its ...

A simple hack of Windows XP tricks Microsoft’s update service into delivering patches intended for a close cousin of the aged OS, potentially extending support for some components until 2019, a ...