According to the latest StatCounter data, Windows 7 has managed to scoot past Windows XP in terms of market share and is now the most popular operating system in the world. Its predecessor, Windows ...

Update: Microsoft provided the below statement regarding its most recent security report. “There was an increase in computers cleaned from malware (CCM) in the 4th quarter of 2013. This increase was ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this feeling, ...

Windows XP might very well be the most loved operating system of all time (on the Windows side), but after nearly 10 years since being released, it's no longer the popular. That distinction now ...

If there's one thing we've learned from the end of Windows XP support, it's that nobody listens to Microsoft. Microsoft has issued more dire warnings about the end of XP than we can count and yet, it ...

Windows 7 is doing much better out of the gate than Windows Vista did. As good as the OS roll out is going, there are still legacy devices out there that don’t have drivers and software updates to ...

Bill Veghte, Microsoft's senior vice president of Online Services & Windows Business Group, has written a letter addressed to "Windows Customers" in which he explains his company's plans around the ...

Are you ready to throw Windows XP into the trash? I'm not. Yeah, so XP SP3 is five years old. So what? Does it still work? Yes. Does it still run all my Windows applications? Yes. So, tell me again, ...

Office 2013 will only support Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems. Office 2013 will only support Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...