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RSS xpXP Starter Edition off to slow start
News The software giant first launched the Windows XP Starter Edition in Thailand last October, followed by Malaysia and Indonesia in February this year. Shintara told silicon.com's sister site CNETAsia that his primary... [18 Mar 2005]
Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade
Case Study The mammoth task of migrating the council's staff of more than 12,000 laptop and PC users to Windows XP was streamlined using Centennial Discovery (CD). Leeds has been working with Centennial Software since 2004 and has... [28 Mar 2008]
XP Reloaded - an update before Longhorn
News Microsoft is considering updating Windows XP before it releases Longhorn, the code name for a major overhaul of the industry's dominant operating system that is not expected for about two years. Issuing an update to... [27 Feb 2004]
One year on: XP still outshining Vista
News New tests have revealed XP with the beta SP3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with the newer OS' long-awaited SP1. Gates: Vista selling faster than XP ¦ Vista, both with and without SP1,... [28 Nov 2007]
XP SP2 by Christmas for most UK IT managers
News Almost three-quarters of UK IT managers plan to roll out XP SP2 and 63 per cent of them plan to do it before Christmas, according to research by emedia for desktop tools outfit LANDesk. Rolling out XP... [24 Aug 2004]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data losses never seem far from the reader comments page, with this week being no... [01 May 2008]
XP licensing far from clear to HP PC users
Comment Its latest range of Pavilion PCs - popular with home and small business customers alike - has been shipped without recovery CDs for the Windows XP operating system. According to Carly's crew, if you change or replace the... [10 Jan 2002]
XP update displays settlement concessions
News Microsoft is finishing work on an update to its Windows XP operating system, clearing the way for public release of the software within the next few days, sources say. The Windows XP update is unique,... [30 Aug 2002]
Microsoft - halted Vista, XP updates resumed
News A week ago, Microsoft delayed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a problem that could lead to data loss when running the XP update in conjunction with its Microsoft Dynamics Retail... [07 May 2008]
XP SP2 breaks the 100 million barrier
News After a rocky start, Microsoft has beaten its target for take-up XP SP2. For corporate users, likely to be distributing the service pack via Automatic Update, the wait before XP SP2 hits users proper may... [26 Oct 2004]
XP Service Pack 2: First security flaws found
News Security researchers say they're starting to find flaws in Microsoft's latest major update for Windows XP. Last week, German company Heise Security announced that two flaws could be used to circumvent the new warnings... [19 Aug 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: XP v Linux as an embedded OS, services in 2002, and surveying servers
Comment It also points out that the bloated nature of the XP solution makes performance a likely issue. On 28 November it posted an online document that set out to explain why Windows XP should be the natural... [21 Dec 2001]
Minority Report: XP on a Mac - a wise move?
Comment Enabling Windows XP to run on a Mac may be Steve Jobs' boldest move yet. In a nutshell, Boot Camp allows users of Intel-powered Macs to boot Windows XP natively in place of the incumbent OS X operating... [12 Apr 2006]
XP and smart tags - Microsoft at it again?
Comment Just this week the suggestion that XP will feature Instant Messenger as standard has rekindled the bundling debate. As you write in Word or feed data through Excel, XP will highlight related information... [08 Jun 2001]
XP wins with the Finns
News UPM-Kymmene, one of Finland's largest manufacturing companies, has bought Microsoft's XP OS for tens of thousands of workstations worldwide. The company said it was due to upgrade to Windows 2000 but chose... [26 Oct 2001]
