The new Release Candidate editions for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will be the last public test versions before their final releases next year. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Windows 7 has been officially available for less than five months. In that time, it has established itself as the fastest-selling operating system in history–selling over 90 million copies. Despite ...

While most of the attention of the tech world is focused today on the Steve Jobs keynote at Apple’s WWDC event, Microsoft is hosting its own major event this week–TechEd. At TechEd, Microsoft revealed ...

I’ll get right to it: anyone using a mature copy of Windows 7 (as opposed to a new computer or a newly installed copy) should not install Service Pack 1 (SP1). This is not a knock on Microsoft, ...

Anything interesting in it? It seems like from what I'm reading, it's just a bunch of hotfixes and security rollups. Not that that's a bad thing -- actually, it's saying quite a bit, considering the ...

The clock is ticking on the demise of some downgrade rights for Windows 7, an analyst said Thursday. Last year, Microsoft said that customers could downgrade new machines purchased with Windows 7 ...

A new set of cumulative updates (optional) are rolling out to devices with Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The optional cumulative update includes ...

Microsoft has revealed that the first service pack for Windows 7 is on the way, but claims it will only offer "minor updates". With the phrase 'service pack' having strong echoes of the massive ...

The latest development by Microsoft on Windows 7 front is the announcement of SP1(service pack 1) for Windows 7. The announcement came just few days back on 18th March 2010. Windows 7 SP1 is going to ...

For Windows customers without immediate access to MSDN (or the defunct TechNet), acquiring genuine Windows ISOs has been a frustrating and ridiculously complex experience: Microsoft tells you to ask ...