Microsoft's former Windows Product Activation author says the famous pirate key may have been leaked by someone at Dell or ...

Many theories over the years proposed that the FCKGW key worked because Microsoft's key generation algorithm was very basic, ...

It's gradually been losing ground, but Microsoft's 10-year-old operating system is still the most popular version of Windows with a 47 percent share of the market. Windows XP refuses to give up its ...

Raymond Chen explains why 32-bit Windows client editions capped RAM at 4GB even though Microsoft had a way to address more ...

You really, really need to dump Windows XP. No, really. Windows XP was great, and many users still love the operating system, but…it’s more than a decade old. At the rate technology evolves, that ...

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 ...

Windows XP users, your favorite operating system is a decade old, and if you’re still using it, you’re not cool anymore, at least according to Microsoft. That’s the software giant’s recent take on its ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...