Despite valiant efforts to push its Windows licensees to adopt Vista and the forthcoming Windows 7, Microsoft has one again agreed to extend the option of selling Windows XP for use on new PCs for ...

Hewlett-Packard is betting the Oct. 25 arrival of Windows XP will boost PC sales, says Chief Executive Carly Fiorina. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Although Microsoft Corp. will not officially release its Windows XP operating system until Oct. 25, it has allowed PC makers to begin shipping machines loaded with the new OS as of Monday, which ...

HP Thursday confirmed that some users of its AMD-based desktops have had problems after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), and said it would issue a patch this week to prevent machines from ...

Will Microsoft?s new OS encourage consumers to buy new PCs? The first indication will come when PC makers start to sell notebooks and desktops loaded with XP. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...