Microsoft is shifting focus to fixing Windows 11 performance and reliability after months of buggy updates, boot failures, ...

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Microsoft issued a second emergency Windows patch in January after earlier fixes caused new bugs, raising concerns about ...

Windows 7 and Vista have unofficially come back to life 9 years after Microsoft ended support for the latter OS. Tech ...

In context: Despite being released many moons ago, Windows 7 continues to be remembered fondly by millions of users. In fact, some people are still using the old operating system for gaming tasks. Now ...

Honey, I shrank the OS. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Remember when the prevailing wisdom of consumer tech was 'smaller is ...

Dozens of sites reported this week that Windows 7 usage is "skyrocketing." The reports are based on charts from a notoriously unreliable source. More likely explanation: Changes in iOS 26 are ...

Every month, Statcounter publishes market share figures for the various Windows versions, but this month’s figures are something special. In September 2025, an ancient Windows version that hasn’t been ...

TL;DR: Windows 7 is experiencing a surprising resurgence in 2025, rising to nearly 10% of the global desktop Windows market share, up from 2% in July. Despite Microsoft ending support in 2023, its ...

End-of-life for Windows 10 is just around the corner. Microsoft confirmed long ago that support ends on October 14, 2025, which means it’s a good time to upgrade to Windows 11. We’ve already seen a ...

Mozilla is once again throwing a lifeline to users still running older versions of Windows. The company has announced yet another extension of support for its Firefox 115 Extended Support Release (ESR ...