Microsoft may have discovered the ultimate turnoff. The company's new product-activation technology, which locks Office XP or Windows XP to a particular PC hardware configuration, can deactivate ...

Here are a few things you should know if you are still using Microsoft XP: • Microsoft Corp. will issue its final update today to fix known security flaws with XP ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. As Microsoft Corp. prepares for the official launch of its ...

Consumers are just getting their first look at Windows XP, but that hasn't stopped Microsoft from preparing the first major update of the new operating system. Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said ...

Microsoft will cut off support to its 12-year-old operating system Windows XP at about 1 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, leaving more than a quarter of the world’s computers effectively undefended ...

NEW YORK — Microsoft will end support for the persistently popular Windows XP on Tuesday, and the move could put everything from the operations of heavy industry to the identities of everyday people ...

When the system requirements for Microsoft Office 2010 were first posted, we noticed that Windows XP 64-bit was mysteriously absent. We contacted Microsoft, and the ...

Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system was released the same year that Alicia Keys’ “Fallin’” hit No. 1 on Billboard, 2001. Yet Microsoft has continued to support and update the aging OS -- until now ...

First and foremost, I don't recommend doing this yourself. I created an isolated virtual machine and used a firewall to ...

Hats off to Microsoft, it just saved 1 in 4 of the world’s PCs. That is the frightening proportion still running Windows XP and all of them were left crippled after ...