January 19th Update - Microsoft has now removed this article from its website. No explanation was given, but the motivation seems obvious: it was disingenuous scaremongering, and Microsoft realised it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It feels like its been a long path to Windows 7; close to a year ago today we were looking at early screenshots of Vista's replacement, and the months in-between have been punctuated with test builds, ...

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 ...

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Windows 7, successor to Windows Vista, is slated to ship in early 2010 (although rumor has it that Microsoft hopes to get it out even earlier. But aside from saying it will refine Vista’s kernel, ...

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 ...

If you want to escape the clutches of ransomware, the best thing you can do is install the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, according to Microsoft. Microsoft says there's been a 400 percent rise in ...

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