How Microsoft hopes it will happen: "I hope everyone upgrades before April 8, 2014!!!" How it will actually happen: "So XYZ big corporation just got hacked using a Windows XP exploit and Microsoft isn ...

Correction, 10:05 a.m. PDT April 8: This story misstated the type of support available after mainstream support ends next week. Under extended support, available for XP and business versions of Office ...

Among analysts and IT workers, the predictable yearly updates to integrated productivity suites inspire more yawns than excitement. Although Microsoft Office XP doesn’t set the desktop world on fire, ...

A new licensing program being put in place by Microsoft will force the majority of its business customers to either upgrade to Office XP before Oct. 1 or pay a heftier purchase price later, analysts ...

Brace yourself: I kind of like XP. I've always been rather leery of most Microsoft products. But XP is remarkably clean for a .0 operating system. You've probably read plenty of articles about XP's ...

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will announce at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto a revamped "Desktop Deployment Initiative" that provides partners with more business investment ...

The UK government has paid Microsoft several million pounds for extended support for Windows XP. Computers running the operating system within the public sector will continue to receive essential ...

According to information posted on Microsoft's Web site, the per-incident support cost for all Windows users is now $59. Before Jan. 30, when Microsoft released the retail version of Vista, the ...