SIUC asked the Windows forum about running software intended for Windows XP in Windows 7. For the most part, it should just work. I’ve rarely run into programs that run fine in XP but have trouble in ...

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 ...

Now, the iPad is a real computer. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac With the recently-released PC emulator UTM SE, you can now emulate Windows on iPad directly. You can revisit old PC games, just ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...

Microsoft Corp. posted the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site last night, giving most users their first opportunity to try out the upgrade. Several thousand testers ...

Windows XP Service Pack 1, which includes traditional bug fixes and security patches that have been identified since the operating system shipped last October, will comply with Microsoft's tentative ...

Microsoft Corp. late Friday afternoon announced that it had posted what it called “slipstream builds” of Windows XP Service Pack 3 for download by subscribers of its IT professional and developer ...

But before you plunge into Windows 7, it’s critical to determine how all of your organization’s important applications will work with the new operating system. Even though most contemporary programs ...