This holiday season, Microsoft has gone back in time to create an "ugly sweater" based on its iconic Bliss wallpaper from Windows XP. If you like the look of it, the software giant is making the ...

After Microsoft's Ugly Sweater was offered in a slick minesweeper look in 2021, this year's edition pays homage to a Windows OS of days past. The "Bliss Edition" of the Ugly Sweater has the standard ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And, according to my peepers, Windows has never had a better aesthetic combination than the blue taskbar, green Start button, and gentle rolling hills of the ...

Did you read the news about the Windows XP activation algorithm getting cracked and suddenly get nostalgic for the blue skies and bluer taskbar of that old Windows release? Or maybe you just like ...

Microsoft has created limited edition Crocs that even come with a Clippy shoe charm. Microsoft has created limited edition Crocs that even come with a Clippy shoe charm. is a senior correspondent and ...

I vividly remember when I got my very first computer growing up, and I was introduced to the internet. I must have been around four-six years old, and while I don't remember the make or model of our ...

Windows XP was an actively supported Microsoft product for 13 years, including five years where it was the newest version available and another three years where it was vastly more popular than its ...

Windows XP was the most blissful iteration of Microsoft's ubiquitous operating system. That's an objective, empirical, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed, double-blind fact. After all, it's arguably ...

Windows XP also became one of the longest-supported and widely used versions of Windows and was one of those rare releases that outlived its successor. This interesting failure was Windows Vista. XP ...