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 of yesterday, Microsoft has stopped selling Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to system builders. The only way to acquire a copy of these operating systems now is to buy the dwindling stock still available ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many computer users have upgraded from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 as part of Microsoft’s free upgrade offer, which ends on Friday. After Friday, holdovers who want to upgrade from Windows 7 will ...

This Friday is Halloween, but if you try to buy a PC with Windows 7 pre-loaded after that, you’re going to get a rock instead of a treat. Microsoft will stop selling Windows 7 licenses to OEMs after ...

If you’re one of the many still holding on to the nearly nine-year-old Windows 7 OS, it might be time for an upgrade. Microsoft is set to end extended support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020, ...

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 ...

We've cleared up the confusion over the European pricing of Windows 7 with a handy Q&A, taking care of everything you wanted to know about Windows 7 E but were afraid to ask Richard Trenholm was ...

Apple [AAPL] has announced that it will be adding support for Microsoft’s [MSFT] latest OS, Windows 7, to Bootcamp by the end of the year. This update will encompass support for Windows 7 Home Premium ...

Last night, as promised, Microsoft started rolling out the patch to Windows 7 Pro that implements 'Support for Windows 7 is coming to an end' nag screens. While all indications at this point say that ...

When Windows 7 reaches end of support, the operating system will display a full screen warning stating that Windows is more vulnerable to viruses and that you should upgrade to Windows 10. On January ...