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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...