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  1. Windows 10 Market Decline: Growing Shift to Windows 11 Ahead of Support Cutoff

    In a notable shift within the PC landscape, millions of users are moving away from Windows 10 as the deadline for official support looms ever closer. As of August 2024, a StatCounter report indicated that Windows 10's market share had dipped below 65%, a drop of 11% compared to the previous...
  2. Windows 10 Upgrade Help Available in Select Retail Outlets

    It's hard to imagine, but there are people out there that haven't experienced Windows 10 yet through the Windows Insider program. Microsoft hopes, of course, that there's been enough grassroots chatter that even the common PC user will want to jump on board come July 29, when the Windows 10...
  3. Windows 8 NEWS: MICROSOFT MAY BE BRINGING BACK THE START BUTTON WITH WINDOWS 8.1

    ?22 APR 2013 With the introduction of Windows 8, Microsoft abandoned the Start button, causing an uproar amongst long-standing users of the OS. But according to The Verge, the Start button could be making a comeback with Windows 8.1. But before PC users get too excited, the site's sources claim...
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    Microsoft will no longer support ActiveX as of 2015

    I just read in my E-mail today from PC MAG that Microsoft will no longer support ActiveX as of 2015, or was it with the new Windows 8? Just 3 years after I purchaced Windows 7? What in the wide world of sports is agoin' on here??? Call Windows 8 for what it really is , Vista 2.0...
  5. Windows the next frontier

    I want to blog on the site, and want to know if my writing is any good or if I will embarrass myself. Pleas let me know what you think. I also have one or two more. If this one is any good, I can post them as well and see what you think. These are a few years old, please excuse the out of date...
  6. Microsoft Kinect SDK for Windows 7

    Samantha Velez Use the 360 Kinect on the PC Microsoft made the Kinect software development kit (SDK) available today. PC users will be able to make their own applications to use on Windows 7. Microsoft Senior Director of Developer Relations, Jeff Sandquist , said, “The wait is over—we are very...
  7. Microsoft's Windows 8 Faces Legacy, Tablet Challenges

    Microsoft is betting big on Windows 8's ability to satisfy both tablet and PC users. But the success of Windows 7 and legacy applications offers challenges. Link Removed
  8. First Year Strong for Windows 7 as PC Users Flee Vista

    Microsoft is celebrating the first year of Windows 7 success. The software giant reports it has sold more than 240 million licenses to date. Link Removed due to 404 Error
  9. PC Users Like Windows 7 -- and Windows XP

    PC Users Like Windows 7 -- and Windows XP Early Windows 7 users like the new operating system, but many Windows XP users still like their nine-year-old OS. That's the word from two new reports by Forrester Research, which said that 86 percent of the first users of Microsoft's newest operating...
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    Windows 7 Should Microsoft Windows 7 be free of charge?

    Microsoft’s' newest operating system, Windows 7, has a new campaign out. The advertisements follow certain people around, and they end up showing how "I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea". Of course Microsoft's new operating system was someone else's idea. They haven't had an original idea in...
  11. Ballmer: Windows 7 Microsoft's 'Best Ever' OS (InformationWeek)

    New operating system is building market momentum as PC users upgrade from Vista, CEO says. Link Removed - Invalid URL
  12. Windows 7 Windows 7 will be speedy,uses less memory than Vista & will be on sale in early 2010

    Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that regular PC users will be able to test out a "beta" version of Windows early next year. Windows 7, the forthcoming operating system, will let users choose to see fewer alerts and warnings from their computers. Rampant notifications and pop-up windows alerting...