I’ve just found out about, and am incensed at, Microsoft’s decision to stop supporting Windows XP with security updates from April 8, 2014. What about the thousands of people who still happily use XP?

The Pentium II debuted at 233MHz, unless my brain has totally fried. AFAIK, XP requires a Pentium II-level CPU minimum, so running it on a Pentium ("1") would seem to be out of the ...

My coworkers wanted to install Windows XP on her Dell Pentium II 350MHz, 8GB, 64MB PC100, ATI Ragle 8MB Int. Video, Int. Audio.<BR><BR>She installed XP and Norton Anti-Virus on it and it crawled to a ...

But if you want XP to run quickly and stably, the minimum recommendation is the target to aim for. Over the past six months, we've determined that XP runs just fine on a Pentium III-500 with 128MB of ...

Editor’s Note: This is a legacy article, originally published in January 2002. While pricing and availability details may be outdated, the test results and analysis remain accurate and relevant. Today ...

The venerable Intel 486 was released in 1989 as the successor to the extremely popular Intel 386. It was the minimum recommended processor for Windows 98. (Surprisingly, the Windows 95 minimum was a ...