Even in a multi-part review, it's almost impossible to cover every perceivable feature of a Windows operating system, but there are a few new niceties that we'd like to shed a little light on. For ...

Microsoft's new OS gives you more options for viewing and manipulating windows and screen elements, and also ribbon-izes Paint and WordPad. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

Note: A couple of weeks ago Ed Bott and I decided that we'd each write a piece offering up our view of what's new in Windows 7. This is my piece. You can find Ed Bott's thoughts on the subject here. I ...

Yesterday at CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. At PC World we’ve been running our own evaluations of the forthcoming replacement to ...

Zack Whittaker posted some shots tonight of the Windows 7 user interface. Needless to say, I couldn't get myself to worked up over them. Apparently somebody did since the post was yanked shortly, but ...

Jim Thomas said no to Windows Vista -- but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter. Thomas, CIO at Pella Corp., says his IT team began beta-testing Vista's successor a year ago as an upgrade path ...

It is the statement that has re-ignited the near-religious debate about whether the Windows user interface was copied from Mac. Define ‘copied’. Adopting features that work is not new to Windows 7 or ...

Windows 7 may have helped propel Microsoft’s second quarter revenues to record levels, but many enterprises are still slowly, carefully deploying the OS, if at all. For those enterprises mulling over ...

In context: Windows 7 as a proper computing platform has long been dead, but leakers are still playing with the corpse of one of Microsoft most successful software products. A new preview build of the ...

What comes to mind when you look back at the history of Windows? Is it the iconic logos, the ever-changing Start menus, or maybe the introduction of Live Tiles? The story of Microsoft’s flagship ...

On October 26, 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, a hybrid tablet/desktop operating system that took bold risks but garnered mixed reviews. Ten years later, we’ve caught up with former Windows ...