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Overall, the Windows OS continued to lose share globally while Apple's Mac OS X picked up most of that loss, according to Net Applications Windows 7’s market share surged nearly 40 percent in the week ...

In July the number of Windows 7 operating system users surpassed Vista users, according to calculations by a leading market research firm. But Windows 7 has a long way to go to overtake the aging ...

Valve ended official support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.x in the Steam client just a year ago, forcing gamers clinging to ...

Start now. Particularly if you skipped Vista, you need to start testing applications for compatibility with Windows 7. Microsoft says it will discontinue support for Windows XP in April 2014. Gartner ...

On the eve of Friday's one-year anniversary of the Windows 7 launch, Microsoft is getting a bit nostalgic about the progress it has made. Microsoft has now sold 240 million Windows 7 licenses, which ...

Windows 7 has broken the 4% market share barrier in less than three weeks, a mark that took Windows Vista five months to reach, a Web metrics company said today. According to Net Applications, Windows ...

Windows 7's 'netbook edition' -- Windows 7 Starter -- will only let you run three applications at once, Microsoft has revealed. There has been some confusion over what this means, and how it's handled ...

While there’s still no wholesale rush to deploy Windows 7 across the enterprise, the rate at which Microsoft’s latest operating system is finding a home with corporate customers appears to be pretty ...