windows 7
- News
You May Still be Able to Upgrade From Windows 7 to 10 for Free
Windows 7 officially entered its end-of-life yesterday meaning that Microsoft was no longer supporting the still highly popular operating system. Well, not without one last major final security patch at least. As such, for those of you still using it, you might at this point be wondering what to do.…
Read More » - News
Windows 7 Support Ends Today With One Potential Final Patch
Well, January 14th is here and, unless Microsoft metaphorically calls the Warden for an 11th-hour reprieve, support for the Windows 7 operating system is due to end today! Perhaps surprisingly, Microsoft has largely been quiet on the subject. I mean, to my knowledge there hasn’t been masses of ‘make sure…
Read More » - News
Chrome Will Remain Supported on Windows 7 for 18 Months
Like it or not, at the time of writing Windows 7 users have to decide (pretty quickly) whether they’re going to make the ‘upgrade’ to Windows 10 or face living with an operating system that Microsoft no longer supports. Yes, Windows 7 officially enters end-of-life on January 14th. Now, while…
Read More » - News
NVIDIA to End Quadro Driver Support for Windows 7 & 8
As you may be aware, official support for Windows 7 ends on January 14th. Yes, we are less than a week away now until one of the most popular operating systems of all time official enters its ‘end of life’. There is, however, the small matter of curiosity as to…
Read More » 
- News
Windows 7 Support (Mostly) Ends in Just 2 Weeks
As the popular phrase goes, all good things must eventually come to an end. When it comes to operating systems, however, it abundantly clear that users are often more than a little reluctant to make the transition to newer versions. Windows 7 users, however, will have some difficult choices to…
Read More » - News
Windows 7 Pro Users Can Expect End of Support Notifications
As much as many of you might still be stubbornly clinging onto the Windows 7 operating system, you’re going to have to make some very difficult decisions in the very near future. Yes, official support (beyond the realms of business use) of the operating system is coming to an end…
Read More » - News
Windows 10 (Finally) Gets Over 50% Market Share
It’s been around 4 years now since Windows 10 launched and if one thing has been made abundantly clear, it’s that people have been very slow in adopting the latest operating system platform. In fairness, there has been good reason for this. Firstly, it’s hard to ignore just how hard…
Read More » - News
Microsoft DX12 Port Support Adds Ray Tracing to Windows 7
With the ray tracing technology largely being locked to Windows 10 via DirectX 12, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft wouldn’t be in any particular hurry (nor indeed any despite) to bring support to Windows 7. The operating system is, after all, two-generations old now and, more so, is…
Read More » -
- News
Windows Malware Update Still Not Applied To 1M Systems
Windows Update Earlier last month, Microsoft revealed how a security exploit had been found in some of their earlier operating systems. Affecting users of Windows XP, 7 and their server platforms, an update was released to try and ‘plug the hole’ in the system. Despite it being released for nearly…
Read More » - News
Microsoft Urges Windows 7 & XP Users to Apply Security Update
Windows 7 & XP Update Warning While Windows XP user figures have started to dwindle a little over the last year or so, there are still a huge number of people who are (through preference or stubbornness) still sticking with 7. Admittedly, the transition to Windows 10 hasn’t proven to…
Read More » - News
AMD Adrenalin 19.3.2 Brings DX12 Support To Windows 7
AMD Adrenaline Brings DX12 Support To Windows 7 A few days ago we reported the exceptionally surprising news that despite Windows 7 having less than a year of official support left, Microsoft had decided to bring official DirectX 12 support to the platform. With this support now out, AMD Adrenaline’s…
Read More » - News
Microsoft Finally Brings DirectX 12 To Windows 7
Microsoft Releases DirectX 12 For Windows 7 When Windows 10 was first released in 2015, one of the key ‘selling points’ of the operating system was being able to access the latest version of DirectX. Admittedly, nearly 4 years on and we’re still seeing mixed results between versions 11 and…
Read More » -
- News
Windows 7 Users Need To Brace Themselves For Nagware!
Windows 7 Users – Prepare To Get Nagged! There is now, less than a year of official support remaining for Windows 7. By January next year, users of the operating system are going to have a difficult decision to make. Namely, either choosing to stick with it, paying for additional…
Read More » - News
Google Warns Windows 7 Chrome Users To Update Immediately!
Google Warns Of “Serious” Windows 7 Bug Despite Microsoft’s best efforts, there is still a remarkably high number of people clinging to Windows 7 rather than making the update to 10. With the operating system having less than a year of official support left, however, users are, sooner or later,…
Read More » - News
Google Warns Users of Two Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Chrome
Update Strongly Encouraged Google‘s Threat Analysis team has discovered two Zero-day vulnerabilities last week affecting the Chrome browser. They have now issued an update fix with the latest version 72.0.3626.121. Normally, some users have auto-update enabled. However, in case you are unsure, simply go to Settings > About Chrome then…
Read More »
