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Article | 10/02/2009 HP says its netbooks likely will run 3 versions of Windows 7

In a vote of confidence for Windows 7's suitability for use on netbook PCs, Hewlett-Packard says it likely will offer at least three different edition...

Article | 10/02/2009 Microsoft dumps Ultimate Extras from Windows 7

Microsoft will not offer "Ultimate Extras" in Window 7, the company has confirmed, saying it abandoned the heavily-criticized concept to focus on "exi...

Article | 9/02/2009 Economy could slow enterprise adoption of Windows 7

The turbulent economy could hinder enterprise adoption of Windows 7, even though many companies opted to skip Windows Vista and are still running the ...

Article | 6/02/2009 MS cites 'click fatigue' for Windows 7 security change

Microsoft changed the default settings of one of its most important security features for Windows 7 because users balked at clicking more than two pro...

Article | 5/02/2009 Mozilla patches critical Firefox flaws

Mozilla Corp. has patched seven security vulnerabilities in Firefox, two of them labeled "critical," in the browser's first update for 2009.

Article | 4/02/2009 Microsoft to offer XP-to-Windows 7 upgrades

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

Article | 4/02/2009 MS: Six versions of Windows 7 for sake of PC makers, users

While it plans to focus on marketing two versions of Windows 7, Microsoft will offer six editions of its next operating system to better satisfy PC ma...

Article | 4/02/2009 MS to shove XP toward retirement with upcoming support shift

In 10 weeks, Microsoft will begin to retire Windows XP by shifting the seven-year-old OS into a more limited support plan.

Article | 4/02/2009 Microsoft revs up 'Fix it' support tool

Microsoft has ramped up a new Windows support assistant nearly three months after it quietly debuted the automatic repair and configuration tool.

Article | 3/02/2009 Microsoft's IE loses more share, slides to new low

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) again lost market share last month, although at a slower rate than the previous two-month stretch, but still ended ...

Article | 3/02/2009 Microsoft denies Windows 7 UAC vulnerability

Microsoft is denying that there is a security hole in the User Account Control (UAC) feature of Windows 7 after a blogger reported it last week and po...

Article | 3/02/2009 Windows 7, Mac OS X gain market share

Although the beta of Windows 7 quickly grabbed one-tenth of 1% of the operating system market share last month, Microsoft's OS continued its downward ...

Article | 2/02/2009 UAC fix in Windows 7 creates security hole, blogger says

A change that Microsoft made in Windows 7 to improve its controversial User Account Control security feature has left the new OS less secure, accordin...

Article | 2/02/2009 Microsoft warns that Vista, XP upgrade blockers will expire

Microsoft is warning customers that tools for blocking automatic upgrades to the newest service packs of Windows Vista and Windows XP will expire in t...

Article | 2/02/2009 Microsoft: Next step for Windows 7 is a release candidate

The head of Microsoft's Windows development confirmed Friday that Windows 7 will take the unusual path of moving straight from a single beta, which wa...

Article | 30/01/2009 How many flavors will Windows 7 come in?

Windows Me may not have had much going for it, but it has one claim to fame: it was the last major release of Windows to come in a single edition, or ...

Article | 30/01/2009 Mozilla delays Firefox 3.1 again

Mozilla has delayed the third beta of Firefox 3.1 for the second time this month, a company executive said Thursday, citing troublesome bugs in the br...

Article | 30/01/2009 Fan starts campaign for Windows 7's immediate release

A Windows enthusiast is calling for Microsoft to release Windows 7 now, only a few weeks after the company made available the software's first public ...

Article | 30/01/2009 Microsoft delivers Vista SP2 RC to testers, reports say

Microsoft has delivered a preliminary release candidate for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) to testers and is again on track to offer another publi...

Article | 28/01/2009 IE8's clickjacking fix not much help, experts say

New Microsoft technology designed to protect Internet Explorer users from a powerful new Web-based attack will not fix the problem, security experts s...