The world was very different 25 years ago. We ushered in the new millennium wearing low-slung denim, watching The Lord of the Rings, and listening to MP3s on iPods. This was also a time when even the ...

Microsoft still can't shake the success of Windows XP. In a move that seems designed both to ensure backwards compatibility and to sway the Vista nay-sayers it has been revealed Microsoft's impending ...

In context: Piracy has been a part of Windows history from the very beginning. Microsoft began taking the issue seriously with Windows XP, and Dave Plummer has now revealed that the first unauthorized ...

After a week-long delay to take care of a last-minute compatibility bug, Microsoft Tuesday gave the green light to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). The service pack, undoubtedly the last for the aged ...

I've recently developed some curiosity about how Windows XP handles USB storage devices (thumbdrives). I read the recent thread about how Win XP occasionally fails to assign drive letters, an found it ...

Utility operators will face new security challenges once Microsoft Corp. ends support for the Windows XP operating system next month, the Wall Street Journal reports. The operating system used to ...

After reading John Siracusa's excellent article on meta data, I started wondering about what MS is offering in its NTFS 5(.1?) filesystem. Under Windows XP, and perhaps Windows 2000, it seems as if ...

Microsoft has warned users updating to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) that they won’t be able to downgrade from Internet Explorer 7 to the older IE6 without uninstalling the service pack. The warning ...