An October surprise — that’s how many are interpreting Microsoft’s 11th-hour revelation that it will be providing a virtualized copy of Windows XP as a free compatibility add-on to Windows 7 ...

You can setup both a Samba server & an a FTP server on your Linux box. So, the Samba server will take care of sharing files with your Windows box; and the FTP server will take care of sharing files ...

I'm getting rid of a Windows XP box at the office and switching solely to my mbp. I'll be backing up the files, but there may be occasions where I want to access the old applications and such. I don't ...

The $100 Linux Laptop is now a $200 Windows XP box. The XO (or OLPC) will eventually come as a dual boot machine, loaded with both XP and the weird icon-only XO flavor of Linux, called Sugar. First ...

Capable of running everything from Linux to OS X, Oracle's VirtualBox makes it possible to work on multiple operating systems at the same time. For instance, if you'd like to run Windows XP on your ...

Update 5/1/14: Well, glory be! Microsoft issued the IE patch for XP users. Perhaps the company saw that not including them put the Windows base at too great a risk. This development only delays the ...

XP has been a dead OS stumbling for a few years now, with mainstream support already killed dead in 2009. It lacks GPT support, meaning it can't use drives larger than 2TB. The widespread use of the ...

Amazon.com customers looking to place advance orders for Microsoft's Windows XP operating system were out of luck Tuesday as the product listing disappeared from the online store. Amazon had started ...

First, Intel-built processors wind up in the Mac. What’s next—Windows XP running on an Apple-built machine? Exactly, thanks to the Windows XP on Intel Mac challenge. That contest, to get the Microsoft ...