Not long after the Sept. 11 attacks, designers at Microsoft Corp.'s lead advertising agency, McCann-Erickson, began to scrutinize each image and word of their marketing campaign for the new Windows XP ...

When reports of viruses, hackers and software flaws seem to show up in e-mail boxes several times a day, they become almost mundane. But the latest one was a doozy. Microsoft Corp. said its new ...

Microsoft Corp. has found an unlikely new partner to help promote Windows XP: Google Inc. While senior Microsoft executives pit the company against Google in a looming Internet search war, the Redmond ...

Return with me to the Glory Days of Windows XP, which apparently some people, somehow, are still using even though support for it ended in...2014. I don’t know whether to be amazed or horrified at how ...

After a week-long delay to take care of a last-minute compatibility bug, Microsoft Tuesday gave the green light to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). The service pack, undoubtedly the last for the aged ...

Those rolling green hills of the old Windows XP desktop background could be available once again for those with the hardware and know-how. Image: Gizmodo Imagine it ...

GUI matters: Microsoft released the original edition of Windows XP in 2001 and kept the operating system alive for more than 17 years. The once massively popular platform remains fondly remembered, ...

A Reddit user figured out how to run Windows 11 on a Windows XP computer using a virtual machine. The experiment was conducted on a Windows XP x64 system, utilizing VirtualBox 5.2.44 with Certificate ...

After October 14, 2025, Microsoft will no longer release any regular updates to Windows 10. The company may make exceptions if a really serious security flaw is discovered — this has happened with ...

If you’ve been using Windows for a long time, you’ve probably been told to periodically reinstall the operating system to keep it fresh. I remember I used to reinstall Windows XP every few months back ...