"Plug and Play will make upgrading your computer so easy that even a child could do it." When Windows 95 was first released, Microsoft wanted us to believe that the Plug and Play service (also known ...

On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will officially retire Windows XP, the company's most popular version of Windows ever, first launched about 12 years ago. That doesn't mean if you have XP running on some ...

Click to viewJust as extensions make Firefox better, so do plug-ins add extra goodness to the Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system (MCE). For the uninitiated, MCE provides DVR and other ...

Steve Dagley of Netscape's Technical team sent us a note denouncing Microsoft's decision to make the Windows Media Player plug-in non-standard, crippling its ability to function properly in other ...