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A Free Option Turns Old Windows XP Laptops into Chromebooks

No longer supported by Microsoft, Windows XP is vulnerable to security threats and can’t be freely and easily updated to Windows 10. Those who are happy to live online, though, now have a free and ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Are people still using Windows XP and Windows 7? Yes, and here's why

Compatibility, reliability, and resource constraints ...
BGR

How To Get Windows 10 For Free If You're Running Windows Vista Or XP

Microsoft over the weekend relayed some good news for folks running older versions of Windows. It turns out that there will be a way for people still running Windows XP or Windows Vista to upgrade to ...
Bleeping Computer

It's Windows XP's 20th birthday and way too many still use it

Today is the 20th anniversary of Windows XP, and although the operating system reached the end of support in 2014, way too many people continue to use the insecure version of Windows. Windows XP was ...
Cult of Mac

How to run Windows XP on your iPhone or iPad without jailbreaking

I bet you never imagined you might one day run Windows XP on an iPhone or iPad. But thanks to a brilliant app called UTM, it’s not only possible, but it is incredibly easy. You don’t even need to ...
PC World

3 easy Linux alternatives for Windows XP refugees who don’t want a new PC

Windows XP’s refugees have two choices on April 8, when Microsoft stops supporting the decade-old operating system (for consumers, anyway). This is assuming a new PC with a new operating system (even ...
PC World

How to Upgrade From XP to Windows 7

You had good reason to stick with XP and skip the Vista experience entirely. But now that the folks at Microsoft have created a new operating system that’s worth ...
Hackaday

windows xp

The venerable Intel 486 was released in 1989 as the successor to the extremely popular Intel 386. It was the minimum recommended processor for Windows 98. (Surprisingly, the Windows 95 minimum was a ...
ZDNet

How to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 10 in 8 reboots or less

Everyone in the Windows world is sitting on a bit of a time bomb: On July 29, Windows 10 upgrades cease to be free. Let's be clear. While some of you die-hards might not want to move off of Windows XP ...
Liliputing

Windows XP turns 20 (and some people are still running it today)

Microsoft is gearing up to release Windows 11 this fall, and it will bring the biggest changes to the company’s desktop operating system since Windows 10 was released in 2015. But thanks to new ...
ZDNet

Windows XP: system requirements

You can run XP on any system that meets or exceeds those specs -- namely a 233MHz CPU with 64MB of RAM, 1.5GB of free drive space, 800 by 600 display resolution, and a CD-ROM drive. But if you want XP ...