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Top personal computer makers, including Dell Computer Corp., said Wednesday they have begun selling some PCs with Microsoft Corp.'s widely anticipated new Windows XP operating system four weeks ahead ...

ANAHEIM, CALIF. — In his keynote address yesterday at Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference, Bill Gates, the company’s chairman and chief software architect, announced the ...

Use of Windows XP is still widespread across NHS hospital trusts, with the operating system in use in 90 percent of trusts questioned. Virtualisation software company Citrix made Freedom of ...

AVAST conducted a six-month study of over 630,000 samples and found that 74% of rootkit infections came from systems running Windows XP, whereas only 17% came from its successor – Vista – and 12% from ...

Microsoft has issued a software patch that will reanimate frozen notebook PCs running Windows XP. The patch, according to Microsoft's Web site, resolves a problem affecting notebooks based on Intel's ...

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Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP in April, but a simple registry hack lets users continue to get security updates. The hack, as reported by ZDNet, fools Microsoft into thinking the system is ...

Currently, Windows XP is still used by more than 1% of computers across the globe, and millions of people are still using the 19-year-old operating system. On Thursday, Sept. 24, some users on 4chan ...

Microsoft’s most successful operating system in its history, Windows XP, refuses to die, no matter how many stakes Microsoft drives through its heart. But now it appears that Microsoft’s work is ...