Posts under XP tag.

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Acer unveils new dual boot Android – Windows XP Netbook

Acer has unveiled a new dual boot netbook having two operating systems installed; Google’s Android mobile software and Microsoft’s Windows XP OS in the same netbook.  The Acer Aspire One AOD255 netbook uses Android as a quick-booting operating system and [...]

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Windows 7’s biggest rival: Windows XP SP3

Thanks to sales of the new Windows 7 operating system, revenue in Microsoft’s Windows division jumped 44% to $4.55 billion from $3.17 billion a year earlier as the recent fiscal fourth quarter ending report indicated. While there is a healthy [...]

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New security flaw could compromise older Windows Operating Systems

Microsoft was made aware Monday of a security flaw in older versions of Windows that could, if exploited, allow hackers to run malicious code on unsuspecting computers. The vulnerability is caused ‘due to a boundary error in the “UpdateFrameTitleForDocument()” function [...]

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Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective Formed!

A group of security researchers, pissed off with the way Microsoft supposedly ‘treated‘ Tavis Ormandy, a Google engineer, for publicly disclosing a zero-day Windows XP Help Center vulnerability, currently being exploited in the wild, has come together to form the [...]

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Attacks on Windows XP Help and Support Center hole increase

On June 10th, Microsoft warned of a vulnerability in the Help and Support function of Windows XP SP2 or SP3. The vulnerability was first discovered by Google’s senior security researcher, Tavis Ormandy, who after notifying Microsoft of the vulnerability, released [...]

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How to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7

If you have skipped Vista and are now planning to upgrade from XP to Windows 7, then this read may help you. The upgrade option of upgrading from XP to Windows 7, is not available in Windows 7 Setup when [...]