Like its predecessor, Windows 7 can be used for up to 120 days without providing a product activation key, Microsoft confirmed Wednesday. Although Microsoft generally touts a 30-day time limit for ...

The launch of Windows 7 may be more than two months away, but the buzz, already building, is starting to reach fever pitch. Reviews, such as Preston Gralla’s in Computerworld,, have called it “solid” ...

Support for Windows 10 has now ended as of October 14. Here's everything you need to know about how your PC is at risk, and ...

A group of developers who call themselves Massgrave have successfully hacked Microsoft's activation tools for Windows and Office. The collective has uploaded a set of PowerShell scripts to their ...

As of Tuesday, Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10 for free, with the software having reached “End of Life” status. That ...

Now that Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14, holdouts on the operating system face larger bugbears than ...

Microsoft's offer to upgrade for free from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 (and from there to Windows 11, if you want, and your spec qualifies) has been one of the most long-standing freebies ever, ...

Consumer protection organizations warn: never have so many computers been cut off from security updates as after the end of Windows 10. The waste would be huge.

You can speed up your PC and laptop by cloning HDD to SSD free. But Windows does not come with a free disk clone tool. Fortunately, there are some great free SSD cloning utilities to clone HDD to SSD ...

Much of this, however, isn’t obvious, particularly if you don’t know the names for these things, and haven’t taken the time to read any “what’s new” articles, read an introductory book like Windows 7 ...