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RIP, Windows 7: Microsoft ending updates and security support for popular operating system

One year ago, Microsoft began the doomsday countdown for Windows 7, promising to end support for the stubbornly popular operating… Read More

Beware, Windows 7 hold-outs: Microsoft starts one-year clock to end support for popular operating system

For the Windows 7 diehards out there — and there are a lot of them — Microsoft is only going… Read More

Time to dump Windows 7? Microsoft’s German subsidiary says popular OS ‘does not meet the requirements of modern technology’

A blog post by Microsoft Germany is urging users still hanging onto Windows 7 to make the switch to Windows 10,… Read More

Three decades of Windows: The quirks and success of Microsoft’s most lasting achievement

Thirty years ago today, Microsoft joined a competitive race with the introduction of Windows 1.0. Apple had already introduced its Mac… Read More

Windows 10 adoption starts to level off, three months after introduction

There are already 110 million Windows 10 users, according to Microsoft, but the new operating system still accounts for less than… Read More

Windows 7 market share surges in advance of Windows 10 release

Microsoft’s six-year-old Windows 7 operating system experienced a surge in market share in June, surpassing 60 percent of the worldwide desktop… Read More

New stats: Microsoft’s fastest-growing OS is … not Windows 8

Microsoft’s Windows 7 continued its rebound in June, climbing to 50.55 percent of worldwide desktop operating system usage. And despite… Read More

Windows 7 tops 50% of desktop PC usage for first time

Windows 7 is making a mid-life comeback. Five years after its release, the Microsoft operating system surpassed 50 percent market… Read More

Microsoft releases new IE11 preview for Windows 7, tries to win back former users

Microsoft this morning issued the release preview of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, following up on the earlier developer… Read More

Why the Windows 8 launch isn’t as big as you’ve been told

Three years ago, I was working at Microsoft to ensure that the security response process didn’t get in the way… Read More

Chart: Windows 7 is almost bigger than Windows XP

August is already a big month for Windows 8, with Microsoft announcing this morning that it has finished the new… Read More

Farewell, Windows Vista: I’m going to miss you, old friend

Microsoft is ending mainstream support for Windows Vista today, and I’m getting a little choked up just thinking about it.… Read More

CES: Dell jumps into the Ultrabook game with XPS 13

Posting from Las Vegas: This year’s Consumer Electronics Show may well be remembered as the year of the Ultrabook, and… Read More

As IE falls overall, Microsoft touts IE9 gains on Windows 7

Internet Explorer’s overall market share, which stood at more than 90 percent seven years ago, fell again in December 2011… Read More

IE9 share tops 20% on Windows 7 even as IE usage slips overall

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser is now used on more than 20 percent of PCs running Windows 7 worldwide, outpacing… Read More

HP shedding PC business: Why Microsoft should buy it

Bloomberg News caused a big stir in the tech world today with a report that Hewlett-Packard is looking to spin off… Read More

Verizon’s first 4G LTE netbook is a Windows 7 machine, sorta

Verizon Wireless this week is releasing its first netbook computer running on its 4G LTE network, and it represents a… Read More

Microsoft: Windows 7 hits 400 million licenses sold

At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles this morning, Microsoft updated its Windows 7 sales figures — saying that… Read More

Kinect on Windows: Results from a 1-day coding marathon

In conjunction with its release of a Kinect software development kit for Windows 7 today, Microsoft held a “Code Camp”… Read More

Q&A: Details on Microsoft’s Kinect release for Windows

Microsoft this morning officially brought its Kinect motion sensor to Windows PCs — releasing a software development kit that will… Read More

Future of comic books? Microsoft, Disney release ‘Tron: Legacy’ in HTML5

Comic books made the leap to the online world long ago, but Microsoft and Disney are aiming to take things… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: Microsoft’s ‘Ben the PC Guy’ on the new ‘Golden Age of PC Design’

Sure, Windows 8 looks snazzy with that tile interface and stuff, but what are you going to buy in the… Read More

Microsoft loosening the lid on Windows 8?

[Updated below with Microsoft’s statement on Ballmer’s comments] Two separate developments today suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to… Read More

Microsoft customer satisfaction hits new high as Windows 7 takes hold

Have we finally witnessed the death of the Blue Screen of Death? OK, so that’s still a bit of a reach,… Read More

Video: Microsoft builds PC store inside Windows 7 skeptic’s house

So this is what it takes to get somebody to upgrade a PC these days? Earlier today we told you… Read More

New Windows ads will battle old nemesis: Yesterday’s PCs

Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” campaign was originally launched as a counterpoint to Apple, embracing the phrase from the Mac maker’s… Read More

Windows 7 hits 350 million: Putting the data in perspective

Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s… Read More

Internet Explorer 10: Windows Vista users out of luck

It might sound impossible, but Microsoft is about to make its Windows Vista operating system even more undesirable. The Redmond… Read More

Inside Microsoft’s Kinect SDK

Get ready for a new wave of Kinect applications on Windows PCs. One of Microsoft’s goals at its MIX conference… Read More

A Microsoft IT tool for iOS, Android and Symbian? Yep

You can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of Microsoft’s “System Center Configuration Manager,” which IT departments can use to… Read More

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