It’s that whole back-to-school season, which means parents are probably wondering if they have to buy their college-bound kids a brand new PC or they can wring another year out of the old one.

Earlier this week when Microsoft unveiled its lineup of six Windows 7 SKUs, the company said it expects Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Home Premium to fit the needs of most customers, with the ...

Microsoft today stopped providing Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Ultimate licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including its PC partners and systems ...

Last night, as promised, Microsoft started rolling out the patch to Windows 7 Pro that implements 'Support for Windows 7 is coming to an end' nag screens. While all indications at this point say that ...

Six Windows 7 versions, to be precise. But most users only need to decide between two versions. Microsoft has said that 80 percent of users will be deploying Windows 7 Home Premium (consumers) or ...

We're roughly three months away from the end of extended support for Windows 7, and Microsoft is doing everything in its power to ensure that its most stubborn customers flee the operating system and ...

Bottom line: If your Windows 7 Pro PC isn't part of an IT domain (think corporate environments), Microsoft will start sending you pop-up notifications from next month and remind you (again) to bite ...

Microsoft said last Fall that it would offer paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates on a per-device basis for big customers willing to pay for them after the company ends Windows 7 support on ...

Why it matters: We know that Windows 7 users now have under 12 months before Microsoft ends its extended support for the aging OS. After January 14, 2020, the only people who will receive extended ...

In April this year, Microsoft began proactively notifying Windows 7 Home users about the approaching end of support deadline for Windows 7. Starting this week and rolling out over time, Microsoft will ...

Microsoft Corp. is extending a helping if not cheap hand to small and midsized businesses that for whatever reason have been unable to update their computers to its Windows 10 operating system. The ...