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 ...
October 1, 2023 at 10:42 am by Jakob Aylesbury
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 ...
January 6, 2023 at 9:08 am by Mike Sanders
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 ...
June 25, 2022 at 10:43 am by Mike Sanders
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 ...
June 13, 2021 at 10:31 am by Mike Sanders
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 ...
January 16, 2018 at 2:55 pm by Mike Sanders
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 ...
May 30, 2017 at 5:39 pm by Ashley Allen
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. ...
April 14, 2017 at 1:00 pm by Samuel Wan
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 ...
March 28, 2017 at 4:48 am by Ashley Allen
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 ...
October 13, 2016 at 11:40 am by Samuel Wan
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, ...
September 22, 2016 at 10:00 am by Samuel Wan
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 ...
September 6, 2016 at 5:27 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
August 16, 2016 at 7:01 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
August 12, 2016 at 1:01 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
July 18, 2016 at 6:00 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
May 24, 2016 at 8:40 pm by Ashley Allen
