You really, really need to dump Windows XP. No, really. Windows XP was great, and many users still love the operating system, but…it’s more than a decade old. At the rate technology evolves, that ...

People still haven't learnt their lesson when it comes to running Windows XP, it seems. Attackers took advantage of a known, major flaw in Windows XP to launch a cyberattack which is still causing ...

Two years. That is how long it’s been since Microsoft abandoned its record-beating operating system, Windows XP. Despite the fact that during all this time there haven’t been any security updates or ...

Microsoft is facing a rather unexpected predicament right now. Its flagship operating system, Windows Vista, faces the prospect of large-scale adoption of low-cost computer systems - many of which ...

A simple hack of Windows XP tricks Microsoft’s update service into delivering patches intended for a close cousin of the aged OS, potentially extending support for some components until 2019, a ...

When WannaCry hit the world in mid-May, much focus was put on how the widespread use of the out-of-date Windows XP operating system helped it spread so fast. The UK's National Health service was one ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...

I got the chance to play with an IBM ThinkPad that dual boots Windows XP and Mac OS 10.4 (the "Intellese" version). It felt like I was in the twilight zone seeing the shiny Mac interface on a black ...

AVAST conducted a six-month study of over 630,000 samples and found that 74% of rootkit infections came from systems running Windows XP, whereas only 17% came from its successor – Vista – and 12% from ...

You’ve got no shortage of operating systems for your computer. You can buy a Mac and run OSX. If you’ve got a current Windows laptop, you’re running Windows 10 ...