According to the latest StatCounter data, Windows 7 has managed to scoot past Windows XP in terms of market share and is now the most popular operating system in the world. Its predecessor, Windows ...

Update: Microsoft provided the below statement regarding its most recent security report. “There was an increase in computers cleaned from malware (CCM) in the 4th quarter of 2013. This increase was ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing a company-sponsored report that claims annual support costs for ...

Windows XP might very well be the most loved operating system of all time (on the Windows side), but after nearly 10 years since being released, it's no longer the popular. That distinction now ...

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 ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

If there's one thing we've learned from the end of Windows XP support, it's that nobody listens to Microsoft. Microsoft has issued more dire warnings about the end of XP than we can count and yet, it ...

Are you ready to throw Windows XP into the trash? I'm not. Yeah, so XP SP3 is five years old. So what? Does it still work? Yes. Does it still run all my Windows applications? Yes. So, tell me again, ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is introducing the Consumer Preview version of its Office ...

Windows 7 is doing much better out of the gate than Windows Vista did. As good as the OS roll out is going, there are still legacy devices out there that don’t have drivers and software updates to ...