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 ...

If you feel like cracking into nearly 20-year-old operating systems for what we'll describe as "various and sundry" reasons, the source code for both Windows XP and ...

The same day that Microsoft Corp. is releasing the final version of its Windows XP operating system software, the company’s antitrust case was returned to a lower court, where a new judge will ...

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 ...

Microsoft has been working on the successor to Windows XP, code-named Longhorn since XP was first released. But work on Longhorn was slowed about a year ago in response to a flurry of damaging viruses ...