Microsoft Corp. will phase out Windows XP as an installation option for brand-name computer makers faster than it has any other operating system, but an analyst today said it probably wasn’t a ...

Microsoft Corp., tacitly acknowledging the continued popularity of Windows XP, said yesterday that it was updating the operating system’s antipiracy technology to detect illegal copies installed with ...

What this means is that Microsoft will no longer offer security updates for these versions of Windows, although the operating systems will continue to function normally. Support for Windows Vista RTM ...