“Windows 8 on a desktop.” The very phrase makes some people recoil and instinctively mouse over their Start buttons. It’s too bad that the modern UI has proven so contentious, because aside from the ...
Microsoft’s new flagship desktop operating system is here. The failure of Windows Vista, combined with the lengthy exposure the public has had to Windows 7 during the development process have resulted ...
Windows 7 officially ships on Thursday, which means end users and administrators running Windows XP (and to a lesser extent, Windows Vista) have some interesting decisions to make. To help you make ...
Windows 7 is coming. Will your PC be ready? InfoWorld’s Windows 7 compatibility calculator, a feature in the free Windows Sentinel PC monitoring tool, will tell you. Note that we’ve based our Windows ...
Microsoft's popular operating system aged out of support this month. And while it still has many fans, it's time to move on. When Windows 7 arrived 14 years ago, it was seen as better than its ...
Overall the reports about the Windows 7 public beta are quite good. What do people like? It’s stable, especially for a beta. And it easily outshines Windows Vista in its stability, polish and ...
What just happened? Windows 7 was initially released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and is no longer officially supported by Microsoft. And now, one of the most popular operating systems for PC is ...
It's easy to hate a new OS, to poke holes in the feature set, to find it wanting -- but Windows 7 has me sold. Here's why One of the benefits to writing a book about an OS or application is that you ...
Windows 7 comes with important safeguards out of the box, but it isn't hard to make it even more secure Software makers routinely sacrifice some security for the sake of usability, and Microsoft is no ...