Microsoft will officially end support for its most popular operating system later this year. Here's what you should do with ...

While Microsoft technically ended its free Windows 10 upgrade program in July 2016, as of November 2021, CNET has confirmed the free update is still available for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 users.

On the 14th January 2020 Windows 7 became no longer supported, and Windows 8.1 will stop in 2023. If you still have one of the older versions of Windows on your computer, it would be advisable to ...

Windows 7 start menu. If you really want the Windows 10 Start menu to look like Windows 7, you can download a utility called "Open Shell" that used to be called Classic Shell and Classic Start.

Figure 1: Occasionally, Windows Update shows a link that reads “View optional updates.” (Click image to enlarge it.) This, by the way, is a return to functionality offered in Windows 7, when ...

Windows 7 users can head to Control Panel and look for the preview updates. If you own multiple PCs or if you would like to patch the PCs manually, you can download and install the updates from here .

Even though Windows 10 is still getting the Copilot AI love, the fact remains that it will no longer receive updates as of its end-of-support date, October 14, 2025, as noted in Microsoft's IT Pro ...