Windows 7

Hardcore Software is an insider’s account of the events that drove Windows and the PC…

Steam has dropped support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 yesterday, and macOS…

It finally happened, Microsoft is no longer allowing users to activate Windows 11 using a…

Microsoft quietly announced that it has stopped supporting free upgrades from Windows 7 and 8…

That the same leadership and teams made both Windows 7 and Windows 8 is an…

Microsoft is ending support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 starting today. Microsoft Edge and…

Google announced today that it will finally stop supporting its Chrome web browser on Windows…

It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoft is officially retiring Internet Explorer 11 today.

A new survey of 10 million Windows devices shows that 1.44 percent of them are…

Windows 7 couldn’t have arrived at a better time for Microsoft: 2009 was a terrible…

In January 2010, I visited the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, and interviewed Technical Fellow…

At the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2005, Bill Gates had noted that Microsoft didn’t hold…

Of the few developer innovations delivered with Windows 7, the new Scenic Ribbon and Jump…

In December 2008, I wrote an editorial describing how Microsoft’s efforts to simplify Windows were…

After the first public demonstration of Windows 7 at PDC 2008, Steven Sinofsky ceded the…

Most didn’t appreciate it at the time, but the 2008 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) was…