Deciding to stay in the "save-XP" camp? This month's Service Pack could be the last, so lets hope it's a good one.

Freeze!A patch is reportedly on the way if you've an HP AMD machine affected by the SP3 problem.

Blue screens after installing the update are not an isolated incident, if online reports are to be believed..

If you're installing Windows XP SP3 on multiple machines, or you still haven't got around to downloading it at all - you'll be pleased to learn Microsoft has released SP3 as an ISO image you can burn to CD, and then install from disc.

The long-awaited and much-delayed update to Windows XP, Service Pack 3, is giving owners of machines with AMD hardware headaches aplenty it seems.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been cropping up on numerous file sharing and developer sites over the weekend.

Now you see it, now you don't. XP and Vista service packs delayed by "compatibility issue"..

Vista and XP updates will be pushed to users automatically, whether you like it or not.

As Vista and Windows 7 share the same core code, Microsoft has decided to merely nudge up the version number (Windows Vista was 6) so that applications are tricked into thinking it's Vista they're dealing with

Yes, some programs will break after you install SP1, but it could be worse.

Microsoft has confirmed that the next service pack for Office 2007 will be released February-April next year.

Officials examining the next version of Window, and they say they're looking to prevent "bugs" fixed in Vista from reappearing.

Feature-complete release candidate of virtualisation software released.

Microsoft bought anti-spyware technology last week to protect its Internet Explorer browser from surging rivals like Mozilla's Firefox, Gartner analysts in the US have said.