The complaints started late last week in the Microsoft Answers forum for Windows 7. Users appear to be experiencing two distinct problems, as described in this thread. In one case, Windows 7's ...

Spotted by the ever-alert Mark Wyciślik-Wilson for BetaNews, Microsoft has used blog post promoting its Microsoft 365 subscription service to quietly announce it will start taking payments for ...

It's the end of an era: Windows 7 will reach end of support tomorrow, on January 14, a decade after its initial release, with Microsoft to no longer provide users with software updates and security ...

Windows operating systems provide a platform on which to do basic computing, but you still need to add software for special tasks. As is the case for its predecessors and successors, Windows 7 Home ...

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Don't panic. Here's what you need to know. — -- It's the beginning of the end for Microsoft Windows 7. Microsoft is cutting off free support today for the ever-popular operating system ahead of ...

Above all else, Microsoft is launching the update in an effort to discern whether Windows 7 installed on a PC is authentic or pirated. The antipiracy upgrade, known as Windows Activation Technologies ...

At a joint event with Intel, Microsoft says newer systems can expect 10 percent to 20 percent battery improvement over Vista when playing DVDs. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats ...

Microsoft's Windows 7 Extended Security Updates are bound to take their final curtain call this week, or on January 10, to be more exact. So in a few more days, Windows 7 Professional and Enterprise ...

Microsoft issued a formal security advisory late Tuesday on a reported zero-day flaw in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. However, the software maker also said that the flaw does not affect the ...

When Windows 7 reaches end of support, the operating system will display a full screen warning stating that Windows is more vulnerable to viruses and that you should upgrade to Windows 10. On January ...

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