Tag archive: XP

It would be easy to say that it was inevitable, but it really wasn’t. After the dismal failure of Vista, Microsoft needed a bona fide hit. After 10 months, it appears that they officially have that with Windows 7. Microsoft has released its quarterly earnings, and as part of those earnings, Microsoft announced that it has sold over 175 million copies of the operating system, and projections show that as many as 350 million copies may be sold… Read More

A new XP patch is being released today, but users infected with the Alureon rootkit malware will need to look elsewhere for help. The BBC is reporting that Microsoft’s newest patch will recognize an infected system and stop installation to avoid a potential crash of the system caused by rootkit malware. The patch is designed to strengthen the system kernel, which could help prevent the malware from taking hold, but computers that are already… Read More

Earlier this month, Microsoft released a patch for its entire supported line of Windows operating systems—that'd be Windows 2000 all the way through Windows 7—which included a fix for a security vulnerability that had been lurking in its Virtual DOS Machine for some 17 years—a record by almost any standard. The problem was that the security update led to problems on some Windows XP machines: users would install the… Read More