When it comes to Microsoft Windows, there are many versions that are iconic for different reasons. Windows 3.1 liberated the mainstream from the DOS prompt, and Windows 95 felt like the future had ...

Microsoft, under pressure from several sides to get its new operating system out the door, on Friday will deliver final Windows XP code to PC makers in a big way: via airdrop. In a stunt involving ...

Microsoft late Tuesday issued a nearly finished version of Windows XP to testers, signaling it plans to release final code earlier than expected. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant had told PC ...

Windows XP is the operating system that just won't die. After its 2001 release, XP would go on to sell more than 400 million copies. Microsoft tried to end support for the OS several times over the ...

I vote it's not relevant. People working on "clean room" reverse engineering Windows (Wine, Samba, ReactOS) don't want the legal risk associated with leaked code. Microsoft has shown Windows source ...

Reddit users have shared a hack that can create working Windows XP activation codes, though you should think twice before booting up the two-decade old OS. Reading time 2 minutes Imagine it’s 2001.

It has never been too hard for someone with the right amount of time, desperation, or flexible scruples to get around Windows XP’s activation scheme. And yet XP activation, the actual encrypted ...

The update will be the first for Windows XP since the operating system was launched last October. The Windows XP Service Pack 1 includes traditional bug fixes plus important security patches and code ...