"Windows 7 is great," he said. "It's the best operating system they've put out since Windows 2000, and the first true competitor to the Mac." Making a version of Windows that people like, rather than ...

NEW YORK--Although the official U.S. launch event is still some hours away, Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system has hit the market, going on sale in a number of countries across the globe.

Windows users have been waiting for Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system for a long time. Anybody who bought Windows Vista computers in the past three years has been itching to upgrade to something ...

Q:So the big media splash and commercial wars for Windows 7 have quieted. I am in the market for a PC. Should I plan on Microsoft's new operating system, and what can I expect? Answer: I wrote this ...

Why it's a problem roughly 11% of the computers in the world are running this obsolete operating system. Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for ...

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal's award-winning personal tech columnist Walter Mossberg published an extremely favorable review of the new Windows 7 operating system set to hit stores October 22 ...

Activists have long known that the way to take the sting out of a pejorative moniker is to adopt it and proclaim it with pride. So it is with Microsoft and its “I’m a PC” ad campaign. But that slogan ...

If your customers are like most companies, they're either running Windows 7 already or figuring out ways to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately, Microsoft offers no direct path for ...

Although no one waits in long lines for a new edition of Windows software anymore, the debut of Microsoft's latest operating system is part of why buying a PC might feel fun for the first time in ...