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Windows XP Outshines Vista In Benchmarking Test
News New tests have revealed that XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1. Vista, both with and without SP1, performed over two times slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over...
[November 27, 2007, 7:10]
XP Is Dead; Long Live XP
News Although Microsoft is keen for users to switch to XP's successor, Windows Vista, that operating system has not been the success that was hoped for by Redmond. Testing of the beta versions of both service packs showed that XP SP3 was likely to...
[June 30, 2008, 13:53]
PC Makers Find Ways To Extend XP's Life
News Taking advantage of the "downgrade rights" offered as part of the Windows Vista licence agreement, HP and Dell both plan to offer machines loaded with XP well beyond the 30 June deadline, imposed by Microsoft in a bid to get manufacturers and...
[April 28, 2008, 14:04]
Deadline Looms For Demise Of Windows XP
News HP has been offering business desktops, notebooks, and workstations with the option to downgrade to Windows XP Pro from Vista since August 2007, and will continue to offer this option on its business systems [until] at least 30 July, 2009.
[June 17, 2008, 9:12]
Microsoft Allows XP To Stay A Little Longer
News In recent weeks, several PC makers launched programs that allow new PC buyers to more easily "downgrade" their Vista Business and Vista Ultimate machines to Windows XP. This allows the installed base of Windows XP users more time to manage the...
[September 28, 2007, 8:07]
Vista Still Struggling To Gain Enterprise Users
News Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte told ZDNet.co.uk sister site CNET News.com on Wednesday that, at the end of June, Vista was tracking slightly ahead of Windows XP in corporate adoption at the same stage in its life cycle.
[July 25, 2008, 9:01]
Asus Desktop Eee Due In August — With XP
News The cut-off date for sales of the operating system is 30 June, after which customers are supposed to buy Vista instead, but Microsoft recently decided to let XP be sold on 'netbooks' — low-cost, relatively low-specified subnotebooks, like the Eee...
[June 20, 2008, 13:36]
Intel's Atom Burns Microsoft, Brings Back Memories
Blog Not content with forcing Microsoft to downgrade the Vista Capable sticker requirement so that it included Intel's outdated 915 chip - and excluded Vista capability - Intel is now gleefully pumping XP full of monkey glands and sending it cakes full...
[March 10, 2008, 16:56]
Microsoft Throws Another Lifeline To Windows XP
News Although the largest PC makers can't sell XP anymore (except for ultra-low-cost machines), they can sell Vista Ultimate and Vista Business machines with XP discs in the box, or even Vista machines that are 'factory downgraded' to Windows XP.
[October 6, 2008, 8:42]
Will Microsoft Ever Stop Selling XP?
Blog The answer is self-evident: the Eee Box's innards are very similar to those of, say, the upcoming Eee PC 1000 - both use the low-powered Atom processor, for example - and it simply can't handle Vista.
[June 20, 2008, 17:00]
Microsoft Scrambles To End XP Support Panic
News The software maker has now updated the online information to reflect that the the consumer Windows XP editions, along with XP Professional, will be supported until two years after Vista ships, she said.
[January 13, 2006, 7:55]
Windows XP SP3 Out By End Of April
News Windows XP has been around since 2001, and was replaced at the end of 2006 by Windows Vista. However, Vista has been poorly received by many users, and numerous petitions are currently circulating the internet, pleading with Microsoft to continue...
[April 16, 2008, 12:17]
Running The Numbers On Vista Sales
News Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report. Standalone unit sales of Vista at US retail stores were down 59.7 percent compared with...
[September 12, 2007, 8:14]
Microsoft: Vista SP1 Due Next Year
News In the next few weeks, Microsoft will start private testing of a beta of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Vista as well as a third service pack for Windows XP. Microsoft has set out ambitious goals for business adoption of Vista, saying it expected...
[August 29, 2007, 18:15]
Do We Need A Campaign To Save XP?
Blog The XP-to-Vista transition is a pretty clear example of the way proprietary operatings fail users. Moving people on, is obviously in Microsoft's interest, as more new PCs, mean more profits (though we've seen elsewhere that in many circumstances...
[January 15, 2008, 11:51]
Vista Sales Gaining Momentum
News But, while corporations may be planning their Vista move, most large companies that are buying PCs are still immediately reinstalling Windows XP, said IDC analyst Al Gillen. Dell and other PC makers brought back XP on consumer and small-business...
[October 29, 2007, 14:59]
DoJ 'encouraged' By Microsoft Moves
News Also in the filing, Microsoft noted that it is working on a plan for Windows Vista, the next version of the operating system, that would extend customisation options beyond those in Windows XP. Plaintiffs are very encouraged by the direction of...
[October 21, 2005, 10:30]
Apple Launches Safari For Windows
News Safari 3.1, which was launched on Tuesday, will run on Windows XP or Vista and, of course, Mac OSX. Apple released a beta for the Windows-supporting version in June last year. Apple has released the first version of its browser, Safari, for the...
[March 20, 2008, 15:17]
Microsoft Readies Windows Embedded 'Quebec'
News Although Microsoft hasn't revealed much about its plans for a Vista-based successor to its Windows XP-based embedded operating system, the company is already working on one. Unlike the 2009 release of Windows Embedded, the Quebec product will make...
[June 9, 2008, 9:16]
Microsoft: Patch Now Or Turn Off Bluetooth
News Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday release included a critical fix affecting all Windows Vista and XP systems, which could allow attackers to wirelessly steal confidential information from laptops by exploiting a flaw in the Bluetooth stack.
[June 11, 2008, 12:34]
