This article was updated at 12:16 on Friday, June 12, to correct the Windows 7 Professional version information. People love to pick on Microsoft, and often rightly so. The software giant is directly ...

First, the good news: Microsoft has extended the end-of-life date for PCs that come pre-installed with Windows 7. Now for the bad news: It won’t matter to you unless you’re willing to splurge on a ...

Microsoft today quietly put an end to sales of Windows 7 licenses to computer makers, marking a major milestone for the seven-year-old OS. According to Microsoft’s rules, the Redmond, Wash. company ...

In addition to being useful for collaborative business use, shared network folders can also come in handy when it comes to backing up your business computers. The Backup and Restore feature of Windows ...

Devices running Windows 7 (or older) will lose Microsoft support starting on January 14, 2020. What does that mean? According to Microsoft, your PC will "become more vulnerable to security risks" ...

Microsoft has decided to not pull the plug on PCs that come pre-installed with Windows 7 - but only for business computers (Windows 7 Professional). This means that for everyone else who wants a PC ...

Microsoft today stopped providing Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Ultimate licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including its PC partners and systems ...

Microsoft Corp. is extending a helping if not cheap hand to small and midsized businesses that for whatever reason have been unable to update their computers to its Windows 10 operating system. The ...

Just days before Microsoft orders OEMs to stop building new PCs with Windows 7 Home Premium, Dell tried one last time to spur sales using the lure of the five-year-old consumer OS. In a banner that ...

Apple [AAPL] has announced that it will be adding support for Microsoft’s [MSFT] latest OS, Windows 7, to Bootcamp by the end of the year. This update will encompass support for Windows 7 Home Premium ...

We've cleared up the confusion over the European pricing of Windows 7 with a handy Q&A, taking care of everything you wanted to know about Windows 7 E but were afraid to ask Richard Trenholm was ...

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