Windows 10, the next-generation operating system from Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), will launch across a multitude of platforms in 2015. Unlike previous iterations, Windows 10 is being ...

Pesky Windows -- always wanting to reboot after installing new updates and patches. You'd think the OS would be courteous enough to restore your currently running programs (much like Firefox restores ...

We are at the close of the week so it's time to recap everything important that happened in the world of Microsoft in the past week. We did get a new Windows 11 Dev channel build this week, as well as ...

NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp. will make a renewed effort to promote and update Windows XP before the arrival of the next major update to its flagship operating system, code-named Longhorn, it said ...

FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives thinks that the upgrade offer (Windows 10 will be free to Windows 7 and 8.1 users) is a key part of Microsoft's strategy. "It shows Microsoft is looking in the ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I recently replaced the mother board, CPU, and memory in my computer and am now being told to activate windows ...