It’s the end of the line for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. These older versions of Windows (plus Windows RT) stop receiving all security updates today, over a decade after their original releases.

The Dell Inspiron Micro comes with up to a quad-core Intel “Bay Trail” Pentium processor with integrated Intel HD Graphics, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, 32GB of storage, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0, and has a ...

After serving users for almost ten years, support for Windows 8.1, Microsoft’s serially overlooked operating system, has officially come to an end. This means that while computers running 8.1 will ...

The Windows support site quietly updated plans, and the prognosis for Windows 8 is dire. The OS will cease retail sales on October 31st of this year — a scant one year, to the day, after its ...

Microsoft is poised to release Windows 8.1, a deep and crucial revamping of the Windows 8 ideal. The code is final (though Microsoft reserves the right to tweak it further), and the time for ...

Don’t say they didn’t warn you. Turn on a PC running Microsoft Windows 8.1 and you’re likely to be greeted with a full-screen message warning that the operating system will no longer be supported ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

You may not have noticed, but most Windows 8.1 tablets run in 32-bit mode despite having a 64-bit processor. That's about to change. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including ...

When you’re upgrading to Windows 8.1 (or if you ever need to reinstall Windows 8.1), you may come across a seemingly impossible screen to get past, the “Sign into your Microsoft Account” screen. What ...

Despite previously saying that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows it would release, Microsoft is now pushing people to upgrade to Windows 11. The company has been a bit less aggressive in ...