Microsoft might ask you to enter your Windows 7 key during the process in order to qualify for the $14.99 upgrade. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

If you purchased a computer that had the Windows 7 operating system and are looking forward to upgrading the device to Windows 8 Pro, you may have one more hoop to jump through. The upgrade from ...

To recall, Microsoft launched Windows 10 in 2015. At the time, it promised to provide users with a free upgrade to Windows 10 within one year. This offer ended on July 29, 2016. In fact, even after ...

Microsoft closed a Windows 7 / 8 key loophole last month, and now people are experiencing issues reactivating some Windows 10 / 11 installs. Microsoft closed a Windows 7 / 8 key loophole last month, ...

If you've purchased a new PC with Windows pre-installed in the past few years, you might have noticed a few changes on the outside of the device. The biggest change is the absence of a product key, ...

This article was excerpted from Microsoft Windows 7 In Depth with permission of Que Publishing, copyright 2010, all rights reserved. It covers a new installation of ...

A new Microsoft website has just made life a little easier for anyone who's ever purchased a retail copy of Windows 7. If your original installation DVD has been damaged or lost, you can now download ...