Windows XP, and why you should ditch it. Regardless of which computer publication you are reading, or which family members you’re rubbing shoulders with, the chances are you’ve come across the ...

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FILE - This July 22, 2009 file photo shows a Windows XP logo on a Hewlett Packard Laptop at a Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif. On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, Microsoft will end support for its still ...

Windows XP’s day of reckoning is finally here -- it will no longer receive security updates after Tuesday -- which means users should upgrade their computers to a more recent operating system or ...

Microsoft retires its 12-year-old Windows XP operating system on Tuesday. Even so, there are still millions of XP computers out there. Here’s what to do if you own one of them: What happens Tuesday? — ...

The end is nigh for Windows XP, and Best Buy is hoping to make some sales off of that. The electronics retailer will offer users of the the aged operating system $100 credit toward new computers when ...

Dell Inc. today started selling a mininotebook with Microsoft Corp.’s Windows XP Home preinstalled, the first time that the world’s largest computer maker has had a PC to sell with that operating ...

Today marks the official death of Windows XP, the operating system that Microsoft rode to success early last decade (and that caused a million headaches for users). Computers with XP on them won’t ...

When you're having trouble with your Windows XP computer, often your only solution is to reinstall the entire operating system using a repair install. A repair install restores Windows XP to its ...

SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. will begin testing a version of Windows XP in January on the "$100 laptop" from One Laptop Per Child. It has taken nearly a year of engineering to get the bulky operating ...

Microsoft has today announced an agreement with the One Laptop per Child that will see its Windows XP operating system appear on the OLPC's low-cost XO laptops as soon as next month. Though the ...

Windows XP is just like any other operating system -- at any given time, it's performing hundreds or thousands of processes. When any of these processes conflict with one another or fail, your ...