Since 2020, Microsoft has been keeping Windows 7 alive via paid security updates delivered through Windows 7 ESU SKUs. Unfortunately for Windows 7 users, all of that is ending very soon. Paid security ...

is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Windows 7 appears to still be running on at least 100 million machines, ...

With a heartfelt nod to Monty Python, Windows 7 would like you all to know that it's not dead yet. How do you configure Windows 10 PCs to avoid common security problems? There's no software magic ...

Every month, Statcounter publishes market share figures for the various Windows versions, but this month’s figures are something special. In September 2025, an ancient Windows version that hasn’t been ...

In context: Windows 7 as a proper computing platform has long been dead, but leakers are still playing with the corpse of one of Microsoft most successful software products. A new preview build of the ...

What just happened? Judgment day for Windows 7 and 8 has finally arrived. While we've known this was coming for a while, Microsoft had a final surprise for Windows 7 users: anyone still needing ...