The hills are alive on this year’s ugly holiday sweater from Microsoft. Throwing things back to the early 2000s, the tech giant’s latest soft-wear features “Bliss,” the default desktop image… Read More
Twenty years after a rolling green hill and blue sky showed up as the default desktop wallpaper image for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, the search for “Bliss” is still… Read More
Microsoft seems to have rebooted a holiday idea from last season and is bringing back some “ugly sweater” soft-wear that pays homage to its classic software. In a tweet on… Read More
Thirty years ago today, Microsoft joined a competitive race with the introduction of Windows 1.0. Apple had already introduced its Mac OS and Microsoft was a year and a half late… Read More
There are already 110 million Windows 10 users, according to Microsoft, but the new operating system still accounts for less than 10 percent of global desktop market share and adoption is slowing,… Read More
Microsoft’s Windows 7 continued its rebound in June, climbing to 50.55 percent of worldwide desktop operating system usage. And despite its retirement, Windows XP saw a small increase in market share during… Read More
Windows 7 is making a mid-life comeback. Five years after its release, the Microsoft operating system surpassed 50 percent market share among desktop computers for the first time in May… Read More
China has banned the use of Windows 8 on government computers, Reuters reported today. Oddly enough, the move came as a part of a notice on energy-saving products, though it… Read More
You’ll have to pry Windows XP out of their cold, dead hands, apparently. As support for Windows XP ended last month, all those efforts by Microsoft to get users to upgrade… Read More
In a major turn of events in the Internet security world, Microsoft says it will patch a high-profile vulnerability in Internet Explorer on versions of Windows including Windows XP, despite recently… Read More
With a high-profile bug leaving Microsoft’s Internet Explorer vulnerable to attack, and about 25 percent of the world still running Windows XP, should Microsoft release a patch for XP users, making an… Read More
Want to blow up Clippy? Obliterate an old operating system? Here’s your chance. As a part of Microsoft’s ongoing campaign to get the last hold-outs off of Windows XP, the… Read More
The traditional notebook and desktop PC industry experienced its best quarter in nearly two years, according to numbers released by the Gartner research firm this week. Yes, shipments declined by… Read More
Ohio is known for a lot of things. LeBron James. The Best Damn Band in the Land. John Glenn. The Amish. A river that once caught on fire. And, of course, Devo.… Read More
With support for Windows XP ending today, an essay in the Michigan Law Review contends that Microsoft should make the code for the operating system available in such a way… Read More
Are you still running Windows XP? Are you ready for Tuesday? More than 12 years after Windows XP’s release, Microsoft will officially end support for the aging operating system on… Read More
Microsoft really wants people to stop using Windows XP. The company launched a new promotion that offers XP users $100 off the purchase of a new PC that costs more than $599… Read More
In an attempt to coax Windows XP users away from the aging operating system, Microsoft is now offering potential PC buyers a $50 gift card to the Microsoft Store if they buy… Read More
Microsoft is trying to convince business owners that it’s time to retire their Windows XP installations, and start using a more modern operating system. The company is ending support for… Read More
Microsoft is ending all support for Windows XP in April 2014, and doing its best to move users to newer versions of its desktop operating system. But Google isn’t letting… Read More
Attention, Windows XP users: The clock is ticking. Microsoft will officially end support for Windows XP one year from today, on April 8, 2014. This will mean no more security… Read More
Attention, Microsoft: It’s probably time to send a sales rep to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A video by Boing Boing, showing NASA officials celebrating the historic landing of the Curiosity… Read More
With the release of Windows 8 approaching, Microsoft is making a bid for the attention of existing Windows users by streamlining and lowering the cost of upgrading. PCs running Windows… Read More
Microsoft is ending mainstream support for Windows Vista today, and I’m getting a little choked up just thinking about it. OK, not quite, but in contrast with the PC users… Read More
Ten years ago today, on Oct. 25, 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP to the world. A decade later, much of the technology world is completely different, but you wouldn’t know it… Read More
Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s an impressive number on the surface, but absent any other… Read More
