Microsoft’s Jared Spataro has been joking about the company’s terrible history of marketing names for products at Ignite today. “Simplicity and naming, well, they haven’t always been our strong suit,” ...

Microsoft is trying to ease the confusion about Windows XP support, and so the company is circulating on Monday details about what will change and what will remain the same. Let’s start with the brief ...

The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of other things -- like the fact that squeezing 13 years of use out of Windows XP is pretty amazing. But now it's time to move on. Share on Facebook (opens ...

When Microsoft stopped supporting the XP operating system on April 8 after years of forewarning, many government agencies took the option of paying for extended security support. Computerworld NZ ...

We had some weirdness after we did this though, as editing the sysoc.inf causes two Windows Messenger entries in Add/Remove Windows Components with different icons (one added with SP1 to remove links, ...