Microsoft's party line for the past few months has been that it wasn't going to get Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 out the door until some time in the first half of 2008. But this week, Microsoft ...

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UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. As operating systems go, Windows XP has had a fantastic run since debuting 13 years ago. It can be still found on nearly 28% of the ...

Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements. As of August this year, Windows XP still maintained a ...

Microsoft has opened the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to the general public. Previously, the release candidate was only available to a select group of invited testers. This ...

New details surfaced Wednesday about Microsoft's plans to get Windows XP running on the OLPC. Microsoft has been openly eyeing the OLPC project's XO Children's Machine for a year now, eager to see ...

You've been hearing the stories about how people just want to stick with Windows XP SP2, but Windows Vista security is supposed to be better. Do you wonder how many vulnerabilities and patches each ...

Microsoft set out to adopt a formal and rigid support lifecycle in 2002, back at a time when most analysts were expecting to see Windows Vista (then, "Longhorn") within a couple of years. My own point ...

The hack seemingly allows XP users to continue to install security updates, but Microsoft is advising people not to use it. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

It was a massive generational leap, one Windows users haven't seen since.

Apple Mac operating systems had more critical vulnerabilities reported in 2007 than Microsoft's operating systems, according to research. George Ou, a writer for ZDNet.co.uk's sister site ZDNet.com, ...