Archive for the ‘Windows XP’ Category

Saturday May 29, 2010 11:35

Windows XP SP2 retirement looms, puts users in tough spot

Posted by BSchwarz as Windows XP

Half of the enterprise computers running the aged Windows XP operating system are still relying on the soon-to-be-retired Service Pack 2 (SP2), a researcher said today. According to security risk and compliance management provider Qualys, 50% of the...

Microsoft's decision to abandon Windows XP with its next browser is a business move meant to push people off the aged operating system, an analyst said today. It also gives rivals like Mozilla an opportunity to make further inroads into Internet...

Tuesday March 30, 2010 13:41

PC Users Like Windows 7 and Windows XP

Posted by BSchwarz as Windows 7, Windows XP

Early Windows 7 users like the new operating system, but many Windows XP users still like their nine-year-old OS. That's the word from two new reports by Forrester Research, which said that 86 percent of the first users of Microsoft's newest ...

Thursday February 25, 2010 21:09

End of Support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista

Posted by BSchwarz as Vista, Windows XP

If you keep up with the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy (and honestly, who doesn’t? J), you may have noticed that we have a number of products and service packs with upcoming support transitions.  In today’s post, I want to discuss the end of...

Tuesday February 10, 2009 16:48

XP Holding Pattern Set To End With Windows 7

Posted by BSchwarz as Windows XP

The success of Microsoft's Windows 7 beta test phase has organizations that have been locked in a Windows XP 'holding pattern' looking to jump directly from XP to Windows 7. And now that Microsoft has said it will allow XP customers to buy Windows 7...

Tuesday December 23, 2008 10:07

Microsoft Windows XP Availability Extended Again

Posted by BSchwarz as Windows XP

If Microsoft had held to its original plans, Windows XP would be a memory now as the move to Vista would have been completed by the software giant. The overall disdain for Vista in the market by many computer users and the fact that Vista was such a...

Friday August 22, 2008 19:35

Will Microsoft still activate new XP installations?

Posted by BSchwarz as Microsoft Update, Windows XP

According to a Microsoft representative, you will be able to activate new XP installations for the foreseeable future. The fact that the company longer sells XP "has no bearing on one's ability to activate XP installations..." Of course, the current rules...

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