Part of the recently-released Service Pack 2 for Windows XP was a slew of long-awaited updates to Internet Explorer. Along with patches for the browser, SP2 also included features such as the ability ...

The critical Internet Explorer flaw that left every desktop version of Microsoft's Web browser vulnerable was patched today (May 1) — even for Windows XP, the outdated operating system that Microsoft ...

Newer Windows operating systems exist, but many people still use Windows XP Pro successfully to help them work. Although Microsoft support for Windows XP ends in 2014, you can still use it after that ...

Windows XP drops out of extended support on April 8, 2014. As of April 9, 2014, there will be no more security updates or other fixes made for the ancient operating system. Joining it are Internet ...

Microsoft’s support for Windows XP is over. It really is. But because of the company’s sense of responsibility, it will fix and Internet Explorer vulnerability that affects XP—just this once. That was ...

UPDATE: Microsoft will deliver the patch for all versions of Internet Explorer on Thursday (including Windows RT). Windows XP, which Microsoft discontinued support for on April 8, will get a patch, ...

Per its year-old policy on supporting browsers, Google will discontinue support for IE8 when version 10 ships in November. Casey Newton writes about Google for CNET, which he joined in 2012 after ...

Despite the fix, Hall again stressed XP users must update. "Just because this update is out now doesn’t mean you should stop thinking about getting off Windows XP and moving to a newer version of ...

Update 4/30/14 9:04 a.m. ET: Microsoft says that there’s a way to avoid falling victim to the latest zero-day vulnerability if you use Internet Explorer 10 or Internet Explorer 11 on x64-based systems ...

We hope that you heeded our advice to finally ditch Windows XP in favor of a more modern operating system, because there's a new security exploit that'll leave stubborn XP users in the cold. In a ...

LOS ANGELES – Microsoft is releasing a security update for Internet Explorer that closes a gap that allowed attackers to take complete control of a computer. It also issued the update to Windows XP ...