PC makers that choose to ship Windows XP with icons on the desktop could have to include at least three Microsoft-mandated icons.
After a long-announced transition, 30 June marks the end of an era at Microsoft that of Windows XP.
A Vista-based successor to Microsoft's Windows XP-based Embedded system, used for retail and gaming systems, will include features such as disk encryption and anti-malware -- but its core will be seven times larger.
Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday release included a critical fix affecting all Windows Vista and XP systems, which could allow attackers to wirelessly steal confidential information from laptops by exploiting a flaw in the Bluetooth stack.
Microsoft plans to jazz up its music player in Windows Vista, the company's next operating system. But at least some of the new features will debut much sooner.
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If you want to keep Windows XP running smoothly on systems with large hard drives, you'll need to install a patch from Microsoft.
With the introduction of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, sites and software that depend on ActiveX may falter under Microsoft's new security regime.
Microsoft's Mike Toutonghi has had enough of the beige box. It's his job to push the PC past its programming basics to become an uber-control centre that talks to your refrigerator and turns off the sprinklers.
The next version of Microsoft Office is due in the next year or so. If you were product manager for the industry-standard office suite, what would you add? What would you get rid of? What would you fix?
Microsoft's MacWorld Expo announcement that it will deliver a version of its Media Player software for OS X this coming spring follows two of the company's "new millennium" strategies.
Though it is still too early to tell how the final version of Windows XP will perform, Beta 2 provides a good glimpse at the design and features of this eagerly anticipated upgrade for both home and office.
IT managers have expressed fears that extra functionality in Microsoft's upcoming Windows XP operating system will make it harder to manage the product, while doing little to enhance the operating system's security.
What, specifically, can end users and organisations expect from Windows XP and Office XP? Microsoft went a long way toward answering these questions recently, showing off early versions of the software at an event in Seattle.
Just because there are many different Windows variants doesn't mean that everybody's happy.
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