Extended Support for XP, which customers must pay for, will also be provided by Microsoft for five years after mainstream support for Windows XP ends. That means the end of support for those customers ...

Correction, 10:05 a.m. PDT April 8: This story misstated the type of support available after mainstream support ends next week. Under extended support, available for XP and business versions of Office ...

When Windows 10 went out of support last month, roughly ten years after release, many were confused about whether to upgrade or keep running their existing iteration. Experts who recommended upgrading ...

The new Office suite will support only Windows 7 and 8 on the desktop, leaving users of older Windows versions out of the running. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

During the last 12 months, agencies posted nearly 200 solicitations for products compliant with the operating system, which will lose Microsoft's security support on April 8. During the past year, ...

Microsoft offers support for its products for five years and extended support for another five years. That time will soon be up for Windows 2000 (desktop and server) and Windows XP SP2: July 13 is the ...

Customers running Windows XP SP1 must migrate to Windows XP SP2 over the next three months, or they will lose incident support. Microsoft also said it won't release any more security updates for SP1 ...

Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will not run on Windows XP, now or when the software eventually ships, the company confirmed this week. The move makes Microsoft the first major ...

I have 2 machines at home on Win7, and 2 machines still on XP, because shelling out $200 for Win7 just isn't in my budget. Want me to switch? Sell Win7 HP for $25 a licence (no media). Click to expand ...

A couple of weeks ago, I did a piece on why people are still using Windows XP. It turned out the primary reason was support for certain legacy programs that don't work on modern versions of the OS, ...