Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Visual Studio 2012.1) is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Windows XP and more thoroughly test their work. The ...

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Windows XP reaches the end of its support life in less than a month, but it continues to be popular. Just how popular is a matter of debate, but one thing that's clear is that Microsoft is still ...

Some twelve-and-a-half years after Windows XP first went on sale, Microsoft is turning off support for the operating system. From 8 April there'll be no further free updates or security patches. There ...