An October surprise — that’s how many are interpreting Microsoft’s 11th-hour revelation that it will be providing a virtualized copy of Windows XP as a free compatibility add-on to Windows 7 ...

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Microsoft is working to fix a publicly disclosed flaw in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services that can lead to a denial of service attack against certain Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server ...

I think most people would agree that Windows Millennium Edition (ME) was the bastard child Microsoft wanted to turn its back on. After yesterday's Patch Tuesday, I'm starting to think Windows XP and ...

According to the Security Advisory posted Saturday, the bug in Windows Remote Desktop Service affects not just Windows XP SP2, as originally thought, but all the supported editions of Windows, ...

"It suffers from being very complicated," Steven Gibson says, trying to explain why he thinks a little-known feature of some operating systems could spell doom for businesses on the Internet. Gibson ...

DOS in Win2k, WinXP enviroment is actually a 32 bit program emulating a 16 bit enviroment. They call it NTVDM.<BR><BR>It also does not allow direct access to hardware devices unlike win9x. Hence, some ...

Q. I have used an accounting system for many years that is based on DOS. I presently am using Windows 98 SE, and everything works fine. However, I understand that the newer XP Microsoft Windows ...

Well I know NT Compatible has a list of compatible games, but they don't partition their list out by original OS and it isn't very complete. After the troubles many people have had with getting DOS ...

What to know before you dig into the startup areas Back in the days of DOS, if a program was automatically loading when a computer started up, there were only two places that the program could have ...

Kenneth M. Frith is moving away from Windows XP (as he should). But he still has some old DOS programs he’s either unwilling or unable to give up. Can they run in Windows 8? The big question is: Does ...