With Windows 7 set to hit store shelves on Oct. 22, retailers are urging consumers to buy Windows 7 upgrades for as little as $119.48 . But that $119.48 could get you into a lot of trouble. Completing ...

The uncertain economy would seem to be a less-than-ideal environment for launching a new version of Windows. But Microsoft enterprise partners who've been rolling out the OS internally say the ...

A few months back I explained how Windows 7 users can use built-in tools to create a system-repair disc–an important step to take given that few PCs these days come with one. A reader who uses Vista ...

SEATTLE, June 25 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is to sell the standard home-user version of its new Windows 7 operating system for 8 percent less than the comparable version of its Vista system, as the ...

Microsoft has made enhancements to its upcoming Windows 7 operating system that will speed up applications on machines with Intel’s multicore chips, resulting in better overall system performance and ...

Microsoft late on Friday confirmed that an unpatched vulnerability exists in Windows 7, but downplayed the problem, saying most users would be protected from attack by blocking two ports at the ...

In context: Windows 7 as a proper computing platform has long been dead, but leakers are still playing with the corpse of one of Microsoft most successful software products. A new preview build of the ...

Given a choice, customers of a Pacific Northwest PC system builder overwhelming pick Windows 7 over the newer Windows 8, the company’s president said Thursday. “Windows 7 is known, it has years of ...