W The main reason most users are still on Windows XP and Windows 7 is app compatibility. Many older apps, primarily those ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

COMMENTARY--Is Windows XP ready to go? Or are there problems lurking that Microsoft needs to know about? That's the question I was asked late last week, and by none other than Microsoft's Jim Allchin, ...

It’s not just desktop users who refuse to move on from Windows XP. Thousands of websites are still enamored with the now-unsupported OS, too. Internet research firm Netcraft recently released its ...

Dave Plummer, who developed several crucial Windows components while working at Microsoft, recently suggested that the ...

Task Manager creator says it's about time Microsoft creates a special version of Windows 11 without new features, AI and bloat.

Microsoft Corp. updated the componentized version of Windows XP this week with the delivery of Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 1. The SP1 release brings expanded foreign-language support, the ...

It's gradually been losing ground, but Microsoft's 10-year-old operating system is still the most popular version of Windows with a 47 percent share of the market. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

While Microsoft has removed Windows XP from the Hardware Compatibility List, there are still several ways you can find out if your printer is compatible with any XP computers in your office, starting ...

An older relative (a really frugal but sharp guy in his 80's) once bemoaned to me about the scam in the computer industry pushing people to upgrade all the time. "Why" (I'm paraphrasing here) "should ...

And yet here I am writing this review, having impulsively purchased a pair of Microsoft’s limited-edition Window XP “Bliss” ...