Tag: WINDOWS XP

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/06/30/we-bid-windows-xp-a-conditional-adieu/'; Today marks the end of an era... sort of. Microsoft will cease making Windows XP available to most resellers and PC distributors, just 18 months after the release of the much hyped and much derided Vista hit the market. Companies will be allowed to sell XP until their stocks run out, and computer ...

Are those windows of yours looking a little smudged lately? No, we're not talking about the windows in your house or apartment, or the windshield of your car. Instead, we at Switched, like many other consumers and tech watchers out there, are looking at the somewhat confusing view put forward by Microsoft and computer makers for the future of Windows the operating system. Windows Vista was ...

Windows XP is turning into the operating system (OS) that just won't die. After extending the life of its last generation OS from January of 2008 until June, Microsoft is giving the aging system another stay of execution, this time till June 30, 2010, or one year after the launch of Windows 7, whichever is later. If you're thinking this sounds too good to be true, you're right. There is a ...

Though Microsoft isn't requiring computer manufacturers to fully transition to building Windows Vista-based systems until January of next year, Dell jumped out ahead of the pack early and promised to complete the switch before the end of this past March. However, it seems the world's second-largest PC maker was a little too quick on the draw. Word is out today that after a flood of requests ...