Operating systems should be invisible according to some, yet Windows XP is anything but. Visually, it's Microsoft's most innovative OS since Windows 95, making more use of graphics than ever. The ...

It was a massive generational leap, one Windows users haven't seen since.

Windows 3.0 arrived in 1990, offering a much refined interface making use of 16 colors, better resource management, and ...

A recent source code leak reveals Microsoft built and tested a number of divergent themes for Windows XP, with one closely resembling Apple's legendary Aqua GUI. Among a cache of Windows XP source ...

As far as Windows has come in the nearly two decades of this century, there are still many who hark back to some of the style choices prevalent in its earliest days. That is, they miss Windows XP. But ...

Are Windows XP's new features worth the cost of upgrading? Find out how Windows XP measures up against Windows 98 and Me. As you've probably heard, Microsoft has developed two versions of the new ...

The client version of Windows superseding Windows 2000 and prior to Windows Vista. Introduced in 2001, XP was a major upgrade with many changes to the user interface. In 2020, it was estimated that ...

When word came over the holidays that a Chinese group had created an Ubuntu distribution named Ylmf OS that clones the look and feel of Windows XP, we contacted Microsoft to see what they thought ...

SEATTLE – The stability of Windows 2000, the multimedia flash of Windows Millennium, and a new fee scale designed to keep Microsoft Corp.’s coffers full are expected highlights of Windows XP, the ...

It wasn’t meant to be this way. Windows XP, now no longer supported, wasn’t meant to be popular. For all its popularity and sustained usage, people seem to have forgotten something important about it: ...