When Microsoft released Windows XP, most of the clients I consulted weren't ready to care--many had just finished working out the kinks in Windows 2000. Then Microsoft's new licensing program met with ...

Situation: I have 10 laptops that have been donated to my charity organization. They are the exact same models and are in identical (read: stock) configurations. We have 10 individual licenses for ...

Hello all. I'm trying restore a Dimesnion 4600 for a friend who had Windows XP reboot problems. I've determined that the hard drive needs to be replaced (it failed the dell HDD diagnostic), or atleast ...

Good news for companies looking to refurbish and resell their dust-collecting PCs -- as of Friday, Microsoft has broadened its refurbishing rules in order to give outfits with heaps of ...

Over at The Seattle Times, you can read a long feature I wrote about installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 in three ways on an Intel iMac: with Boot Camp, via Parallels, and using Q. Most of this ...

Have a Windows XP app that refuses to run on your shiny new Windows 8 computer? No problem. Just fire up Windows XP in a virtual machine and run the app that way. Don’t want to pay extra for a Windows ...

Two weeks ago, InfoWorld launched a petition campaign to save Windows XP. So far we’ve gotten more than 70,000 signatures, thanks to a passionate response from a wide range of XP users. We hope we can ...

With the first end date deadline for the general availability of Windows XP just six months away, June 30, 2008, there are a number of XP licensing questions that are still on the minds of internal ...

I have two Dell computers here—one running Windows 2000 and one running Windows XP. The XP machine is old and broken down, so I'm going to gut it for parts. I have the Dell-branded Windows XP ...