There are two main types of Windows users in the world. Which kind are you: Windows XP or Windows Vista? The recent news that testers at Devil Mountain Software found Microsoft’s beta of Windows XP ...

Still holding onto a computer running Windows XP or Windows Vista? It may be time to upgrade to Windows 10. Dan Graziano is an associate editor for CNET. His work has appeared on BGR, Fox News, Fox ...

New tests have revealed that Windows XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1. Vista's first service pack, to be released early ...

Over the past couple years, I’ve been regularly checking in to measure whether Windows Vista is living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. (To catch up with ...

Windows Vista users are complaining on Microsoft Corp.’s support forums about long start-up, shutdown and application load times compared with Windows XP. The users, who sound pro-Vista for the most ...

Strike another program down for Windows XP (and Vista) fans. Google recently announced that the Google Drive desktop utility would cease support for Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003 beginning ...

If you're planning to upgrade your current PC to Windows 7 when Microsoft releases their new OS, there's good and bad news for XP and Vista users. Here's a closer look at your upgrade options. Pros: ...

Windows Vista's less than stellar reputation and poor uptake are due in large part to the heavy demands it makes on system hardware. When Vista appeared in the autumn of 2006, PCs and notebooks were ...

If you took all the remaining Windows XP and Vista users in the world—a surprisingly robust 10 percent—and placed them in a Venn diagram with those that play Blizzard games, the intersection would ...

Bad news for owners of dedicated retro rigs: Steam is dropping support for Windows XP and Vista on January 1, 2019, Valve announced this week. And the deadline isn’t just for feature updates. If ...

In what many would consider overdue, Steam will no longer support the Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems starting on January 1st 2019. Supporting older versions of operating systems can ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is introducing the Consumer Preview version of its Office ...