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• Must I Give Up XP?

  By Lincoln Spector | 29 September, 2011 00:13

  Spiderowych asked the Windows forum if he will be "doomed" if he doesn't upgrade from XP to Windows 7.

• Windows XP to Windows 8: Don't go there

  By Shane O'Neill | 22 September, 2011 07:17

  A majority of enterprises have migrated to Windows 7 or are planning to do so. But for Windows XP holdouts ready to side-step Windows 7 for the upcoming Windows 8 OS, you are risking a gap in support, stresses research firm Gartner in a new "first take" analysis of Windows 8 migration in the enterprise.

• An old hard drive and OS in a new PC

  By Lincoln Spector | 27 May, 2011 01:21

  Terry Marshall asked if he could move his old hard drive, unchanged, to his new home-built PC, boot his existing, "very stable" XP installation, and skip Windows 7 altogether.

• Windows 7 adoption swells, as XP suffers record drop

  By Gregg Keizer | 02 February, 2010 07:32

  Microsoft's Windows 7 took just three months to reach a penetration benchmark that Vista needed almost a year to make, Web measurement firm NetApplications.com said today.

• Microsoft to offer XP-to-Windows 7 upgrades

  By Gregg Keizer | 04 February, 2009 12:10

  Microsoft Tuesday confirmed that it will sell what it calls "upgrades" for Windows 7 to users running the aged Windows XP operating system.

• Microsoft extends XP shipments until May

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 23 December, 2008 08:38

  Microsoft is giving system builders several more months to get Windows XP for their custom PCs, ensuring XP will be out in the marketplace until almost the scheduled release of Windows 7 in early 2010.

• Hackers publish attack code for last week's Windows bug

  By Gregg Keizer | 29 October, 2008 08:19

  Just a day after downplaying the vulnerability that caused it to issue an out-of-cycle patch last week, Microsoft late Monday warned customers that exploit code had gone public and is being used in additional attacks.

• Microsoft grants Windows XP yet another reprieve

  By Gregg Keizer | 07 October, 2008 09:03

  Microsoft has extended the availability of Windows XP on new PCs by six months, the company confirmed Friday.