Windows 8 stunk. It might have helped cost chief executive Steve Ballmer his job. Windows 8.1 was a bit better — but if you love it, you have only a month or so left to enjoy it. Microsoft will kill ...

Windows 8/8.1 users need to upgrade if they want to keep using the Google Drive desktop app beyond August this year. The Google Drive desktop app is useful for ensuring your files are kept in sync ...

Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser was an improvement over the initial version of Edge in many ways, including its support for Windows 7 and Windows 8. But the end of the road is coming: ...

Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley. According ...

Windows users running these legacy operating systems will be vulnerable to evolving security threats if they don't upgrade to a later version. Attila covers software, apps and services, with a focus ...

Should businesses upgrade to Windows 8? The benefits on offer include a raft of security improvements, such as Secure Boot, which uses the BIOS replacement known as Unified Extensible Firmware ...

This week Microsoft has confirmed that the extended support for its old Windows 7 and Windows 8 .1 operating systems has now come to an end. Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 7 three ...

"In order to continue running Steam and any games or other products purchased through Steam," Valve writes. "Users will need to update to a more recent version of Windows." Read more: Valve's latest ...

Google announced today that the Google Chrome web browser will likely drop support for Windows 7 and 8.1 starting February 2023. After support is discontinued for these two Windows versions, the ...

Steam is no longer supported on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 as of January 1, with the company recommending users upgrade to a newer operating system. The gaming company warned last year that ...

According to the official Steam Hardware Survey for December 2023, 98.95 percent of users on Windows are using Windows 10 or 11, with just .93 percent of users still clinging to Windows 7, Windows 8, ...