(or Micro$oft decided to let the marketing hacks screw with XPE.) What really cranks the whole thing was that after going to MEDC last year, after being told by the ...

Microsoft has issued a reminder this week that it will stop providing support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 on July 13, 2010. After this date, public support for these products ends ...

Windows Vista users are flocking to Windows 7, but a considerable number of holdouts are resistant to upgrading from Windows XP, according to an InfoWorld survey that was taken over the past several ...

Want more charts? See my follow-up post, When will XP finally fade away? And be sure to vote in the poll. Last year at this time, Microsoft was in the final stages of preparing Windows 7 for its ...

Today is the 20th anniversary of Windows XP, and although the operating system reached the end of support in 2014, way too many people continue to use the insecure version of Windows. Windows XP was ...

Somebody should tell Doug “netbook” Aamoth that Windows 7 seems to be a battery hog. The fine folks at Laptop magazine have put three different netbooks to the test, determining their respective ...

When the system requirements for Microsoft Office 2010 were first posted, we noticed that Windows XP 64-bit was mysteriously absent. We contacted Microsoft, and the ...

Q: Do you know of a place I could get my 9-inch Dell Computer updated to Windows 10? It has never been used. It has a Windows XP operating system so you know how old it is. I was downsizing, packing ...

With Microsoft cranking up its effort to reduce the use of pirated Windows operating systems in China, a group of Chinese software pirates have developed a new operating system called Ylmf OS which ...

Even Microsoft is recommending that XP users just scrap their PC's and start over with a new one pre-loaded with Windows 7 when it comes out this Fall. "If you're running Windows XP, or any other ...

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Stump the PC Club is a free tech-advice column written by members of the North Orange County Computer Club, which has been in existence since 1976. Hi readers! I’m Ed, the guy answering your questions ...