Can we talk? Based on the e-mail I get every day, I know a lot of you are still using Windows XP. I can understand why; it’s like a comfortable old shoe. Plus, it’s bought and paid for. Windows 7 ...

Windows 7 plus Google's Chrome browser is an excellent netbook combination. The two together make pretty good use of a netbook's most limited resources: screen size and processor power. The result is ...

Microsoft is, if anything, tenacious. After nearly three years trying to get people to buy Vista, the company has decided to put that operating system in its rear-view mirror. On Thursday Microsoft ...

Believe what Microsoft and its resellers tell you, and every man and his dog is either migrating to Windows 7 or planning to do so in the next few months. But is it really the automatic and obvious ...

The relatively close release dates of both OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Windows 7 plus the awesomeness of both operating systems are generating much publicity. Inevitably, both OSes will also be the ...

Despite pleas from users to stop the confusion and craft one version of Windows 7, Microsoft is continuing down the path it followed with XP and Vista releasing multiple versions or SKUs ...

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Windows 7 has been around for a long time, and it’s one of Microsoft’s most popular operating systems. But its time has now long passed, and Microsoft no longer officially supports it for the general ...

Windows 7's five years of extended support will expire on January 14, 2020—exactly one year from today. After this date, security fixes will no longer be freely available for the operating system that ...