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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Gates, chairman, Microsoft, and Jim Allchin, VP, Microsoft platforms group Microsoft on Friday will host a celebration marking the release of Windows XP to PC manufacturers, but the big question ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...