Windows Xp

Computing

One-Third Of Windows Users Still Use XP

6:40AM December 16, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Are you a Windows user? Are you amongst the 32.8% of those using Windows XP? I have one question to ask: Why? More »


Software

Windows XP Still The World’s Most-Used Desktop OS

5:00AM October 27, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Windows XP first went on sale 10 years ago today. In that span, it has become the desktop OS of choice with a worldwide install base of as much as 80 per cent. Here’s looking at you XP. More »


Software

Windows XP Is Ten Today

Flag
10:50AM October 26, 2011 | Alex Kidman

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 »


Geek Out

Windows XP’s Iconic Bliss Desktop Has Lost Some Of Its Bliss

Flag
9:00AM September 1, 2011 | Alex Kidman

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 »


Computing

Windows XP On A 4K Display Makes Eyeballs Bleed

11:20AM July 19, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Although it’s still far, far away from the mainstream, 4K displays do exist! Will they ever take off? It’s too soon to tell, but if so, don’t try to run XP with one – it’s like a UI-crushing black hole. More »


Everyone’s Favourite Windows Error Is Now Artwork

10:40AM December 18, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

500 prints of the Windows XP wallpaper “Green Hill” have been turned into a piece of art, called “My Favourite Landscape.” Yes, the world’s most infuriating computer error can now be cooed at in an art gallery. Ugh. More »


Computing

Kitchen Computing Goes Star Trek

10:20PM November 24, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

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 »


Software

There Will Be No More PCs Preloaded With Windows XP

2:23AM October 23, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

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]


Software

Microsoft To Allow Windows XP Downgrades Until 2020

3:20AM July 14, 2010 | Adam Frucci

Windows XP is dead, Windows XP will live forever! Windows 7 Professional buyers will continue to have an option to downgrade two gens to Windows XP for the next 10 years, according to Microsoft. More »


Software

Google Publicly Pulls Microsoft Up On Security Flaw In XP

1:09AM June 12, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

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 »