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Microsoft Will Offer Extended Windows 7 Support At A Cost
Microsoft Offer Extended Windows 7 Support Like it or not, unless you are a rather specific member of the business sector, Windows 7 has only 1 year of official support left. If you do, after this point, decide to keep your operating system, please note that Microsoft will be effectively…
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Windows 10 Adoption Increases But So Does 7
Windows 10 Pulls Ahead Anyway, you look at it, it seems that Windows XP is finally dying. Despite users clinging onto it for many, many, years, with current user rates below 4% it seems that the most loved operating system might finally be bidding us farewell. While Windows 10 recently…
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Windows 7 Has (Technically) One Year Left Of Support
Windows 7 When Windows 7 was released in 2009, it was overwhelmingly well received by users. It was certainly a stark improvement on Vista, despite featuring many aspects it introduced. That being said, it still took more than a little effort for Microsoft to finally get people to abandon Windows…
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NetMarketShare Declares Windows 10 Has Finally Overtaken 7
Windows 10 Has Finally Overtaken 7 It’s fairly safe to say that Windows 7 proved to be very popular with consumers. So popular in fact that many users have stubbornly refused to make the ‘upgrade’ to Windows 10. This, despite Microsoft practically shoving their latest operating system down our throats.…
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Microsoft to Start Charging Windows 7 Users for Updates
Monthly Fee for Windows 7 Microsoft recently announced that users who are on the Windows 7 platform will soon be getting monthly charges. However, the reasoning behind this is not because Microsoft wants to shift OSes to a purely “service model”, but rather for providing updates. This is due to…
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Biostar Announces Two New Windows 7-Ready H310 Boards
Budget Motherboards for Intel 8th Gen CPUs Biostar is rolling out two new motherboards specifically for an affordable Intel 8th Gen CPU build. These are the H310MHC2 and the H310MHD PRO2 motherboards. Both use the H310 chipset and are updated versions of previous models. The main difference being that these…
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Windows 7 Usage Remain Strong–Gains 22% Share on Steam
Microsoft is struggling to further extend Windows 10 market share. They even resorted to quietly extending the free update until December 31, 2017 from the original July 2016. Even in the most recent October Steam hardware survey, Windows 10 64-bit has lost a significant amount at -18.16%. Windows 7 64-bit…
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Four-Character String Can Easily Crash Windows 7 and 8.1
Older Windows versions are not having a good time. First, the WannaCry ransomware infected Windows XP, 7, and 8.1 systems across the globe earlier this month. Now, a Russian programmer has discovered a simple NTFS bug capable of crashing Windows 7 and 8.1 using a four-character string. Master File Table…
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Microsoft Blocks Ryzen and Kaby Lake From Windows 7 & 8.1 Updates
Last month, some troubling news came out from Microsoft. According to a change in their terms of service, Redmond would no longer honour their Windows Update commitments. Moving forward, new processors would no longer get updates of any kind with new processors. This policy was trialled with Skylake but was…
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AMD Confirms Windows 10 Thread Scheduler Working Fine for Ryzen
After the launch of Ryzen, there was speculation about the impact of OS optimisation for performance on AMD’s new Zen architecture. One issue that has been bouncing around the community is with the Windows 10 Thread Scheduler not properly assigning tasks to the two CCX units and the between the…
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Overclockers Using Windows 7 to Set AMD Ryzen World Record
Even up until a month before Ryzen launched, the expectation was that AMD’s processors would be fully supported on Windows 7. Those hopes were dashed when the company revealed that unleashing the full performance would require Windows 10. Despite this fact though, it appears that lack of full support is…
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AMD Ryzen Reportedly Not Offically Supporting Windows 7
One of the nicest rumors to come out for Ryzen was the apparent Windows 7. After Intel started waffling on supporting the aging but still popular OS, many users turned to AMD to be their savior. Thier hopes were further raised when AMD partners confirmed that AM4 motherboards would have drivers…
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Windows 10 Marketshare Drops in Latest Steam Survey
Since the release of Windows 10, the latest Microsoft OS has begun an inexorable rise in marketshare. Surprisingly enough, one group that was somewhat quick to pick up the new OS was gamers as measured in the Steam hardware survey. Since launch, marketshare has gone but consistently but it appears that…
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AMD Announces Windows 7 Support for Ryzen
AMD has announced that its new Ryzen processors will support Windows 7. The bold move – announced by AMD a special Ryzen event – should ensure an extra slice of market share against Intel, whose Kaby Lake processors do not officially support Windows 7, and only partially support Windows 8.1.…
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Microsoft Urges Enterprises to Say Farewell Windows 7
Ever since the debacle with Windows XP, Microsoft has had to rethink their approach to their Windows operating systems. Somewhat luckily for the company, there will be no major panic when Vista ends support later this year in April. The problem lies with Windows 7 which is nearing it three-year deadline…
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