Microsoft has officially retired the traditional phone-based activation system for Windows (and MS Office) that served as a ...

When Microsoft released Windows XP, most of the clients I consulted weren't ready to care--many had just finished working out the kinks in Windows 2000. Then Microsoft's new licensing program met with ...

Hello all. I'm trying restore a Dimesnion 4600 for a friend who had Windows XP reboot problems. I've determined that the hard drive needs to be replaced (it failed the dell HDD diagnostic), or atleast ...

Good news for companies looking to refurbish and resell their dust-collecting PCs -- as of Friday, Microsoft has broadened its refurbishing rules in order to give outfits with heaps of ...

Situation: I have 10 laptops that have been donated to my charity organization. They are the exact same models and are in identical (read: stock) configurations. We have 10 individual licenses for ...

Have a Windows XP app that refuses to run on your shiny new Windows 8 computer? No problem. Just fire up Windows XP in a virtual machine and run the app that way. Don’t want to pay extra for a Windows ...

Two weeks ago, InfoWorld launched a petition campaign to save Windows XP. So far we’ve gotten more than 70,000 signatures, thanks to a passionate response from a wide range of XP users. We hope we can ...

Over at The Seattle Times, you can read a long feature I wrote about installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 in three ways on an Intel iMac: with Boot Camp, via Parallels, and using Q. Most of this ...