Starting Wednesday, users with pirated copies of Microsoft Corp’s Windows XP Professional operating system (OS) on machines that are Internet-capable could find their computer displays going black and with no screen icons visible.

There are 8.6 million users of Win XP Pro in Malaysia and about three million are expected to suffer the “blackouts,” according to Microsoft Malaysia.

To continue working, the user would need to reset the machine’s desktop background. Everything will return to normal. But when 60 minutes are up, the black screen will reappear and the user must go through the whole process again.

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Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don’t want to be forced into using XP’s successor, Vista. Read the rest of this entry »

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Microsoft has made available the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 on its website.

Although its not the final version, the real one which is schedule to be launch in the first of of 2008 will not differ much.

The release candidate of Windows XP SP3 has a download size of 336MB while the full SP3 will be around 70MB. SP3 will be the final major upgrade of the Windows XP operating system

Try if you dare by downloading it here.

via PC World

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