The software giant hopes to compel XP users to dump XP and upgrade to Windows 7 or Windows 8 — before it ends all XP support, including issuing security patches. That will happen come April 8, 2014.

Operating systems should be invisible according to some, yet Windows XP is anything but. Visually, it's Microsoft's most innovative OS since Windows 95, making more use of graphics than ever.

Unless the user chooses to repartition or format the current partition, Vista's files from C:WINDOWS will be preserved under C:WINDOWS.OLD, just as when upgrading from XP to Vista.

Microsoft is patching Windows XP as well as Windows 7 to fix a wormable flaw in Remote Desktop Protocol. Skip to main content. ... Hey, Windows 7 and XP Users -- You Need to Patch Now.

While Windows 7 will be more familiar to XP users than Windows 8.1, it can also be more expensive to get a Windows 7 PC at this point, since they’re less common now and most often found in ...

In this second part of my Windows 7 series I will address why XP users who fought so hard to protect Windows XP will finally let it go and move to Windows 7.