UPM-Kymmene, one of Finland's largest manufacturing companies, has bought Microsoft's XP OS for tens of thousands of workstations worldwide. The company said it was due to upgrade to Windows 2000 but chose XP instead.
Top security experts have cautioned the eager adopters of XP and said Microsoft's overall .NET strategy exposes new platforms for virus writers. Microsoft's .NET platform, the internet infrastructure for web services which relies on XP, allows...
HP today launched a range of Microsoft XP-enabled computers on the EMEA market. The product line currently includes the v1420 and e-pc40 desktops and the 0b6100 notebook, but will be expanded by December to include additional models includes PCs...
It also points out that the bloated nature of the XP solution makes performance a likely issue. On 28 November it posted an online document that set out to explain why Windows XP should be the natural choice for an embedded OS.
Now, faced with the much more difficult task of getting Windows XP Service Pack 2 onto users' machines, what is the Redmond behemoth planning to get home and businesses 'packed-up'? Plans for distribution and promotion aren't final, according to...
Microsoft has now extended the Windows XP service pack 2 footprint even further - to a whole range of smaller footprint devices including shop tills, thin clients and medical systems. Microsoft has taken the wraps off a XP Embedded, which comes...