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 ...

The HP Compaq TC1100 is only 10 years old, but in mobile computing years, it’s laughably archaic. Running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, this device practically dared its owners to enter text without ...

Microsoft next year plans to update Windows XP to support two technologies left out of the new operating system: USB 2.0 and Bluetooth. Both technologies are used for connecting peripherals to PCs, ...

I didn't want Vista -- I see no need to learn the new interface or have any of my apps stop working -- so my choices were limited. And I didn't want to play the downgrade game. Here’s a frustration we ...