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Steam To Drop Support For Windows 7, 8 and 8.1
As time and technology moves on old operating systems are slowly put to bed and that time is soon approaching for Windows 7 8 and 8.1 for Steam compatibility Steam Dropping Old Windows Support In an announcement from steam support, as of January 1st 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting…
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Google Ends Chrome Support on Windows 7 and 8!
With official support now officially over from Microsoft for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 it’s hardly any surprise that, sooner or later, third-party applications would also start to look to move away from the operating systems. There isn’t, after all, much point throwing resources at platforms that are effectively, from…
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Be Aware Folks! – Microsoft is Ending Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 Support Next Week!
While both the Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 userbase is now quite significantly diminished, there are still a fairly significant number of people still utilising the operating systems. Yes, while the figure might be less than 15%, if you are still residing on one of those platforms then you need…
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Nvidia to End Both Kepler & Windows 7-8.1 Driver Support
Back in May, Nvidia confirmed that they were effectively putting their ‘Kepler’ based graphics cards (such as the GeForce GTX 700-series) out to pasture with the end of ‘official’ driver support set to happen before the end of this year. In many respects, the decision did make a lot of…
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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…
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Alienware say Windows 10 is Killing Steam Machines
While Microsoft was apparently eschewing gamers with its mobile/desktop crossover operating system Window 8, developer Valve, owner of the Steam digital distribution service for games, partnered with a number of PC builders to create a PC box specifically aimed at gamers, the Steam Machine. Running the SteamOS, Steam Machines not…
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Windows 7 and 8 Moving to Cumulative Patches
Back in August, Microsoft announced that they would be changing the way Windows 7 and Windows 8 updates would be delivered. According to the information at the time, it appeared that the new model for patches would have gone a Windows 10 like model. In a recent blog post, Microsoft…
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Windows Phone Is Now ‘On Hold’
Microsoft has been keen on promoting their “one platform for all premise”. This meant that no matter what device you were using, be it your computer, a tablet or a phone, you would experience the same system. The concept of Windows Phone has recently been put in doubt, with major…
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Windows 10 Mobile Will Not Come to All Lumia Phones as Promised
With news that Windows 10 Mobile will be coming to the Lumia line of phones, people were eagerly awaiting the update after what could only be considered a lackluster of support and empty promises for windows 8 mobile. Sadly not everyone will be able to enjoy this as it has…
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Microsoft Will Only Support New Processors on Windows 10
Microsoft has recently stated that security updates for Windows 8 will stop this month, and we all know that leaves people with only two fully supported operating systems for windows. Currently, the choice is now between Windows 10 and Windows 8.1, both options that some people may not like. The…
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Windows 8 To Stop Receiving Security Updates
Microsoft recently cut off support for their popular operating system, Windows 7. In light of this, you would think their later operating systems would have a little longer left on the clock? Not if you are one of the users who stuck with Windows 8. The follow-up and slightly controversial…
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Windows 10 Hits 110 Million Mark by Second Month
Earlier in the month, we got word that Windows 10 had surpassed the 100 million install mark. While that was an unofficial source, we now getting word directly from Microsoft that their new operating system managed to hit 110 million installs in the first 2 months. By this point of the month,…
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Windows 10 Data Policy is Optionally Coming to Older Operating Systems
The recently revised “Microsoft Services Agreement” has caused a great deal of controversy and could theoretically disable pirated games and unauthorized software. Additionally there are concerns about Microsoft’s data policy in regards to monitoring user activity. It’s still unclear what the true extent of these updated terms are, but some users…
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OneDrive Can Finally Sync Shared Folders
The long-awaited option to synch shared folders on OneDrive is finally here. Microsoft finally started to roll out an update that allows users to sync content in shared folders and have it pushed to other users as soon as the files get synced. Up until now, Google Drive and Dropbox…
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Windows 10 Hits 14 Million Upgrades in Just 24 Hours
Many Windows users look like they’re jumping right onto the Windows 10 bandwagon right away. According to Microsoft, more than 14 million devices have upgraded to and are using Windows 10. Given that many users on Windows 7 and 8/8.1 that are eligible for upgrading but have not yet gotten…
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