It was Windows that dominated the headlines this week, and for two very different reasons. As Windows XP came to the end of its life, Windows 8.1 Update, which had been announced at Build, was ...

As planned, Microsoft Corp. will drop Windows XP out of what it calls “mainstream support” tomorrow, the company confirmed. “On April 14, Windows XP will transition from the mainstream support phase ...

During the last 12 months, agencies posted nearly 200 solicitations for products compliant with the operating system, which will lose Microsoft's security support on April 8. During the past year, ...

Extended Support for XP, which customers must pay for, will also be provided by Microsoft for five years after mainstream support for Windows XP ends. That means the end of support for those customers ...

Blizzard is killing support for both Windows XP and Vista this year, making Windows 7 the oldest OS still officially supported. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

A couple of weeks ago, I did a piece on why people are still using Windows XP. It turned out the primary reason was support for certain legacy programs that don't work on modern versions of the OS, ...

We have a consumer alert for you tonight if you are using a computer that runs Windows XP. Microsoft is ending nearly 13 years of support of the XP operating system next Tuesday, April 8 as the ...

When Windows 10 went out of support last month, roughly ten years after release, many were confused about whether to upgrade or keep running their existing iteration. Experts who recommended upgrading ...

With Microsoft on the cusp of its next OS leap forward, the 13-year-old XP still is more popular than Windows 8 and 8.1 ...

Customers running Windows XP SP1 must migrate to Windows XP SP2 over the next three months, or they will lose incident support. Microsoft also said it won't release any more security updates for SP1 ...

Microsoft is trying to ease the confusion about Windows XP support, and so the company is circulating on Monday details about what will change and what will remain the same. Let’s start with the brief ...

Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will not run on Windows XP, now or when the software eventually ships, the company confirmed this week. The move makes Microsoft the first major ...