Buried in the letter which Bill Veghte, senior vice president of the Online Services & Windows Business group sent to Windows customers earlier this week, which re-affirmed that XP is pretty much gone ...

Microsoft [MSFT] has announced that it will no longer be offering Windows XP to netbook manufacturers from October 2010. This strategic move by Microsoft is aimed at encouraging netbook manufacturers ...

As the second half 2014 rolls in, Microsoft is stepping up its warnings for approaching support deadlines for some of its key products, including Windows 7. A few definitions worth knowing: Mainstream ...

Just a day before Microsoft Corp. drops support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company announced on Monday that people running some versions of Windows 7 can “downgrade” to the aged ...

Last month, Windows 7 passed Windows Vista in market share, according to Netmarketshare.com. One year after Windows 7 hit RTM and nine months after it was released, Microsoft’s newest OS managed to ...

Microsoft ended support for Windows 7 almost two years ago. For the sake of your own security, stop procrastinating and make the move to Windows 10. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET ...

Windows 7 has been around for a long time, and it’s one of Microsoft’s most popular operating systems. But its time has now long passed, and Microsoft no longer officially supports it for the general ...

1. The Taskbar reloaded: Windows 7’s version of the Taskbar is less cluttered than Vista’s, and it handles both running and nonrunning apps with equal aplomb. 2. Slicker, quicker Taskbar Previews: Now ...

This article was excerpted from Microsoft Windows 7 In Depth with permission of Que Publishing, copyright 2010, all rights reserved. It covers a new installation of ...