With the release of Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate editions, Microsoft is including a little gift called XP Mode. XP Mode is a virtual machine running Windows XP. I call it a gift since to ...

I'm reinstalling Windows XP on a Dell desktop. I get to the point where it says it's installing devices; then, it hangs at 37 minutes. The blurbs to the right rotates through its usual pages.

Windows XP users may now download a fourth service pack for the 13-year-old operating system, but it isn’t coming from Microsoft. Instead, this Windows XP “SP4” comes from a single developer, who ...

Microsoft Corp. posted the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site last night, giving most users their first opportunity to try out the upgrade. Several thousand testers ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...

The latest service pack for Windows XP will be pushed to Automatic Update at 7a.m. EDT on July 10 The vague timetable that Microsoft gave Monday for pushing out Windows XP SP3 to most users got ...

Microsoft Corp. late Friday afternoon announced that it had posted what it called “slipstream builds” of Windows XP Service Pack 3 for download by subscribers of its IT professional and developer ...