Are you a Windows user? Are you amongst the 32.8% of those using Windows XP? I have one question to ask: Why? More »
It was all really happening a decade ago this week. Earlier in the week a decade ago, the iPod was unveiled. Later in the week — ten years ago today — Microsoft officially launched Windows XP. Astonishingly, they’re both still in heavy use today. More »
A good desktop image is hard to find. Microsoft did very well with the default pretty “Bliss” Windows XP desktop, but that was years ago. The site where the photo was taken? It’s not quite as pretty as it once was. More »
Some people install monitors in their walls for kitchen-computing but usually stop at Windows or OS X for the OS. Not Dutchman Pascal, though – who created a Windows XP skin inspired by Star Trek‘s LCARS interface. More »
As of today, PC makers are no longer allowed to preload Windows XP on netbooks, the last type of machine to go. That means that no PCs of any type are rolling off the assembly line with Windows XP. On a separate but not unrelated note, today marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Windows 7. Times, they are a-changin’. [ZDNet]
Oh, it is ON between Google and Microsoft. A Google security engineer in Switzerland warned Microsoft of a vulnerability in Windows XP, but after they didn’t fix it within five days, he went public with the hacker’s wet dream. More »
