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Windows 7 & 8 Keys No Longer Activate Modern Versions of Windows
Microsoft previously offered a free upgrade offer to Windows 10 which ended back in 2016 however, users with old Windows 7 or 8 keys could get themselves onto Windows 10 using the free installation path upgrades until now when that all will change. Windows 7 & 8 Key Activations Ended…
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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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Microsoft Windows 8.1 Users Warned to Start Expecting End-of-Life Nagware!
Getting one elephant out of the room immediately, no, the Windows 8.1 operating system was never popular. – Released at a somewhat awkward time when Microsoft seemed to believe that the future lay in touchscreen products, while 8/8.1 somewhat worked reasonably well with laptops and tablets, for desktop PCs, it…
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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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Free Windows 10 Upgrade Final Deadline Expires January 16th
Last Chance for Windows 10 Upgrade Since offering the upgrade for free the adoption rate for Windows 10 has been a rather mixed bag of results. Reports have suggested that many users have held firm in the face of Microsofts very extreme pressure to make the upgrade. Although figures do…
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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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Microsoft Facing Data Loss Lawsuit Over Windows 10 Upgrade
Microsoft caught a lot of flak for its heavy-handed upgrade policy following the release of its Windows 10 operating system in July 2015, which saw Windows 7 and 8.1 users subjected to nagware harassment, forced downloads, and misleading install windows, and now it could be facing a lawsuit over it.…
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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 10 Upgrade Nagware Removed from Windows 7/8.1
After launch mid-summer last year, Microsoft started offering Windows 10 as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8.1 users. As part of the effort to advertise this new offer, Microsoft took a variety of steps to ensure users were made aware of it. Unfortunately, these methods ranged from the…
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Kaby Lake and Zen Won’t Support Windows 7 and 8.1
The push for Windows 10 exclusivity is set to continue, with Intel and AMD revealing that its next generation of processors will not include support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 – not even temporarily. While Microsoft backtracked on Windows 7 and 8.1 support for its Skylake chips – the…
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Windows 7 and 8.1 to get Windows 10-Style Monthly Updates
Since Microsoft’s strategy of issuing fixes and patches for Windows 10 in one monthly bulk update has been so staggeringly unpopular, it is rolling out the same strategy for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, too. The Redmond company has announced that the Monthly Rollup update for Windows 7 and 8.1…
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Microsoft Extends Skylake Support to Windows 7 and 8.1
Microsoft has reneged on its policy of ending support for Intel’s Skylake range of processors for its older operating systems, which was set to end on 17th July, 2018. From Thursday (11th August), the Redmond company will extend its Skylake support to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 Enterprise users, effective…
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Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Will Miss Adoption Target
Before Microsoft launched Windows 10 last year, it announced a self-imposed deadline for the new operating system to be installed on 1 billion devices by Summer 2018. As we near the end of the free Windows 10 upgrade for Windows 7 and 8 period, though, the Redmond company has conceded…
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Microsoft is Now Upgrading PCs to Windows 10 Without Permission
Since Windows 10 was launched last year, Microsoft has been employing increasingly dirty tricks in order to force Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users into “upgrading” to the new operating system, evolving from gentle harassment to misleading pop-ups, repeatedly pushing upgrade-related Windows Updates, with the latest tactic being to sneak…
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