When Microsoft Corp. releases Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP later this year, some software developers may find that their applications no longer work on updated Windows machines. Microsoft has ...

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is seen by many as a panacea to Microsoft's recent security flops. As our own Kurt Hutchinson showed us, there's a lot to look forward to. However, news has surfaced that XP ...

In Windows 7, Microsoft will give customers the ability to run older applications from within a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC, a move that solution providers are ...

Microsoft released version 2.6 of its Windows XP Application Compatibility Toolkit, which is used to point out potential compatibility issues with applications and suggest workarounds. The toolkit has ...

Hey guys. Thanks for reading this thread. I'm still a bit of a newbie. So pardon me if the answer to this question should be obvious. What I heard is that in Windows XP, 16 bit programs are completely ...

Windows XP Mode, one of the most hyped features of Windows 7, was designed to integrate XP with Windows 7 so that you can run XP applications from directly inside Windows 7. Microsoft has touted the ...

After the update, WGA notifications for XP will be the same as they are for Windows Vista service pack 1, said Alex Kochis, senior product manager in the Windows Genuine Advantage group, in a Tuesday ...

'Never guessed' that users would be so confused, think add-on was the only way to run XP apps in Windows 7 Microsoft delivered the release candidate of Windows XP Mode, but at the same time downplayed ...

Microsoft Corp. will unveil an add-on to Windows 7 that lets users run applications designed for Windows XP in a virtual machine, the company confirmed Friday — the first time Microsoft has relied on ...

Fed up with Microsoft bloating Notepad? An Ex-Microsoft engineer has shrunk it down to 2.5KB somehow.