Even in a multi-part review, it's almost impossible to cover every perceivable feature of a Windows operating system, but there are a few new niceties that we'd like to shed a little light on. For ...

Microsoft's new OS gives you more options for viewing and manipulating windows and screen elements, and also ribbon-izes Paint and WordPad. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

The operating system that introduced the graphical user interface to the masses may also be the first to bring touch-screen technology to PCs. Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, will ...

Note: A couple of weeks ago Ed Bott and I decided that we'd each write a piece offering up our view of what's new in Windows 7. This is my piece. You can find Ed Bott's thoughts on the subject here. I ...

Yesterday at CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. At PC World we’ve been running our own evaluations of the forthcoming replacement to ...

With tons of hype and a multitude of screen shots being posted, I was eager to get some hands-on time with the Windows 7 public beta. I decided to see how much damage would be done to my old Celeron ...

Zack Whittaker posted some shots tonight of the Windows 7 user interface. Needless to say, I couldn't get myself to worked up over them. Apparently somebody did since the post was yanked shortly, but ...

Hardware and device makers that hadn’t developed drivers compatible with https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Microsoft+Windows+Vista.html when it was released shouldn’t ...

Windows 7 may have helped propel Microsoft’s second quarter revenues to record levels, but many enterprises are still slowly, carefully deploying the OS, if at all. For those enterprises mulling over ...

Windows 10 launched on July 29th and has already been downloaded over 14 million times. But why? Microsoft ’s decision to make Windows 10 free plays a big part (especially given warnings to wait) but ...