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.

As the January end-of-support deadline for the aged OS approaches, Microsoft is ramping up efforts to get users to move to Windows 10. Microsoft will soon begin nagging users running Windows 7 ...

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 ...

This year, Halloween will be scarier than usual for PC fans. Friday, October 31 is the final day that Microsoft will sell Windows 7 licenses to PC makers (OEMs in industry parlance), per Microsoft’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s now less than a year left before Microsoft ends extended support for Windows 7. With that deadline approaching, the company has announced its pricing plan for businesses and enterprises 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...