When Windows 10 went out of support last month, roughly ten years after release, many were confused about whether to upgrade or keep running their existing iteration. Experts who recommended upgrading ...

Microsoft Tuesday confirmed that it will sell what it calls “upgrades” for Windows 7 to users running the aged Windows XP operating system. Microsoft Tuesday confirmed that it will sell what it calls ...

In Windows 7, Microsoft will give customers the ability to run older applications from within a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC, a move that solution providers are ...

That recommendation did not go unheeded as reviewers in the CRN Test Center set out to find the most efficient and easiest way to get Windows 7 deployed on XP clients. But after a series of tests on ...

Agencies still using XP can make the jump to Windows 7, although the upgrade path could be tricky in spots. Microsoft and other vendors have set up programs to help with the transition. Government ...

Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing a company-sponsored report that claims annual support costs for ...

Windows 7 has been made tons easier in many good ways for the end-user. However, so far I haven't seen the same attention paid to the IT people supporting things, and as many of us have had years to ...

Windows 7 can't use XP drivers: Check the Windows 7 Compatibility Center, which was still in its "coming soon" phase at the time of this writing. In the meantime, the Vista version of the ...

As expected, Microsoft will let computer makers sell PCs with Windows XP for six months after the release of Windows 7, a move likely to confuse companies and make it tougher for them to manage their ...

There’s been enough written about upgrading to Windows 7 to fill a library, so you’d think PC users would understand the pros, cons and pitfalls by now. Well, not quite. Most people get the gist of ...

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, ...