Microsoft has decided to give businesses some more time to move off of Windows XP. Until now, those buying new PCs with Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Professional have had the option to downgrade ...

Bowing to what it calls customer feedback, Microsoft Corp. yesterday said it would sell Windows XP to large computer makers and at retail through the end of June 2008, five months later than the ...

The company had planned to end the option with the shipping of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, which entered beta on Monday. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed ...

Microsoft has officially retired the traditional phone-based activation system for Windows (and MS Office) that served as a ...

Discussions between AOL Time Warner and Microsoft over whether AOL's online service software would be bundled with Windows XP collapsed Saturday. During a phone call, Microsoft Windows group Vice ...

The end is nigh. No, really. Less than a month from now Microsoft will officially stop supporting the Windows XP operating system. Many security experts predict that it won’t be pretty for Windows XP ...

Microsoft has officially discontinued support for Windows XP Service Pack 2. Although the company will continue to support Service Pack 3 through 2014, it’s worth nothing that nearly 50 percent of the ...

As the end of Microsoft Windows XP support nears, CRN highlights the Windows XP security risks and provides tips for migrating customers from Windows XP to Windows 7 or Windows 8. On April 8, 2014, ...

Some twelve-and-a-half years after Windows XP first went on sale, Microsoft is turning off support for the operating system. From 8 April there'll be no further free updates or security patches. There ...

The hills are alive on this year’s ugly holiday sweater from Microsoft. Throwing things back to the early 2000s, the… Read More Twenty years after a rolling green hill and blue sky showed up as the ...

Microsoft has been on a roll lately. Office for iOS (and soon Android), free Windows licenses for small devices, universal Windows and Windows Phone apps, Siri rival Cortana, even a promise to ...

Just a day before Microsoft Corp. drops support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company announced on Monday that people running some versions of Windows 7 can “downgrade” to the aged ...