Since its highly ballyhooed rollout near the end of October, Windows 7 has been applauded by many as Microsoft’s best operating system yet. But no OS is perfect, and that goes for Windows 7. Windows 7 ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

With Microsoft closing the book on Windows 7 bug fixes, one solution provider says we’re unlikely to see history repeat itself with the shift from Windows 10 to 11. At long last, we’ve reached the end ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Bug fixes and security patches don’t make for the most exciting Windows update, but they’re the high points of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, now widely available for download. * ...

In context: Windows 7 as a proper computing platform has long been dead, but leakers are still playing with the corpse of one of Microsoft most successful software products. A new preview build of the ...