The ReactOS project, which is developing a Windows XP-compatible operating system, is celebrating its 30th birthday.

It has never been too hard for someone with the right amount of time, desperation, or flexible scruples to get around Windows XP’s activation scheme. And yet XP activation, the actual encrypted ...

When it comes to Microsoft Windows, there are many versions that are iconic for different reasons. Windows 3.1 liberated the mainstream from the DOS prompt, and Windows 95 felt like the future had ...

I vote it's not relevant. People working on "clean room" reverse engineering Windows (Wine, Samba, ReactOS) don't want the legal risk associated with leaked code. Microsoft has shown Windows source ...

Windows XP is the operating system that just won't die. After its 2001 release, XP would go on to sell more than 400 million copies. Microsoft tried to end support for the OS several times over the ...

Microsoft, under pressure from several sides to get its new operating system out the door, on Friday will deliver final Windows XP code to PC makers in a big way: via airdrop. In a stunt involving ...

Microsoft late Tuesday issued a nearly finished version of Windows XP to testers, signaling it plans to release final code earlier than expected. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant had told PC ...