Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage team have responded to this week's news that a Windows 7 Ultimate licensing hack had been identified. After a Lenovo OEM Windows 7 image leaked and was used to ...

Microsoft might ask you to enter your Windows 7 key during the process in order to qualify for the $14.99 upgrade. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

If you purchased a computer that had the Windows 7 operating system and are looking forward to upgrading the device to Windows 8 Pro, you may have one more hoop to jump through. The upgrade from ...

Back when they had the $30 Windows 7 deal for students I ordered one, but never actually got the download/install to work. Since I was only going to be using it for VM testing anyway I pretty much ...

Microsoft closed a Windows 7 / 8 key loophole last month, and now people are experiencing issues reactivating some Windows 10 / 11 installs. Microsoft closed a Windows 7 / 8 key loophole last month, ...

Windows 7 Ultimate has been cracked. The pirate milestone, reached almost three months before Windows 7 is set to hit General Availability on October 22, 2009, was achieved via OEM instant offline ...

If you've purchased a new PC with Windows pre-installed in the past few years, you might have noticed a few changes on the outside of the device. The biggest change is the absence of a product key, ...

This article was excerpted from Microsoft Windows 7 In Depth with permission of Que Publishing, copyright 2010, all rights reserved. It covers a new installation of ...

Many computers ship without Windows 7 installation discs. Instead they come with “recovery” discs and/or partitions that claim to restore your PC to its “factory fresh” state, but include a ton of ...