Microsoft stops sales of Windows 7 Professional to OEMs
Microsoft today quietly put an end to sales of Windows 7 licenses to computer makers.
Microsoft today quietly put an end to sales of Windows 7 licenses to computer makers.
Windows 10's cumulative updates have ballooned in size, and a similar bloat will affect the Windows 7 updates Microsoft revamped this month.
Microsoft has told business customers who run into problems with Windows 7's new patch maintenance regime to file a ticket with the company's support desk.
Microsoft has begun yanking the long-lambasted "Get Windows 10" nag software from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs.
Microsoft in October will begin offering only cumulative security updates for Windows 7 and 8.1.
Microsoft today repudiated an early retirement date for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 support.
Queensland Health says the largest part of a massive migration program that will see its standard operating environment shift from Windows XP to Windows 7 is expected to be completed by mid-July at the latest.
Microsoft yesterday threw a bone to Windows 7 users by releasing a cumulative roll-up that collects all bug fixes from February 2011 to April 2016.
Microsoft has begun the final push in its upgrade offensive against consumers and businesses running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
Microsoft retreated from an earlier retirement date for Windows 7 and 8.1 support on newer hardware and will now support those OSes on PCs running Intel's Skylake silicon until July 2018.
Business users alarmed by Microsoft's recent announcement that new chips will not run on Windows 7 PCs need not fret. More than 100 business PCs coming with Intel's new "Skylake" Core vPro processors will run Windows 7, though the chips are tuned for Windows 10.
Microsoft has quietly ended a reprieve for Windows 7 Professional, telling computer makers that they must stop building new PCs with the OS in 12 months.
Windows 8.1 users have been half again as likely to upgrade to Windows 10 as their compatriots running Windows 7, data from a Web metrics vendor showed.
Windows 10 has easily surpassed the global usage share ascension of Windows 7 six years ago, putting it on track to become Microsoft's most successful OS introduction ever.
If you’re going for an immediate upgrade to Windows 10 from your Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 computer, this guide will get you up to speed as quickly as possible.