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Just a day before Microsoft drops support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company announced on Monday that people running some versions of Windows 7 can “downgrade” to the aged operating system for up to 10 years. The move is highly unusual. In the past, Microsoft has terminated downgrade rights — which let [...]

After distributing a buggy anti-virus update that apparently disabled hundreds of thousands of computers on Wednesday, McAfee is still at a loss to explain exactly what happened. McAfee says that just a small fraction of its corporate customers — less than 0.5 percent — were affected by the glitch, which caused some Windows XP Service [...]