Microsoft Corp. last week launched its long-awaited Windows 7 Release Candidate to the public a day earlier than expected, posting …
Microsoft plans 10 fake ‘updates’ for Windows 7
Microsoft plans to test Windows 7's update mechanism by feeding users of the just-issued Release Candidate as many as 10 …
Microsoft patches huge Windows 7 RC bug
Just days after it launched Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), Microsoft has released a fix for a major flaw that …
Windows 7 RC ignores file extension security risk
Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) continues a long-running Microsoft practice that puts users at risk, a security researcher said today. …
Microsoft: Windows 7 is faster on SSDs, with two caveats
Microsoft Corp. today gave a strong, though qualified, endorsement for running Windows 7 on PCs equipped with solid-state disk (SSD) …
Microsoft’s Windows 7 release candidate goes public
The near-final version of Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, became available late Monday to the general public. Microsoft will …
Leaked copies of Windows 7 RC contain Trojan
Pirated copies of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) on file-sharing sites contain malware, according to users who have downloaded the …
Windows 7 could launch as early as August
Although Microsoft Corp. refuses to name a delivery date for Windows 7, it could launch the new operating system as …
Microsoft doctors AutoRun in Windows 7 to stymie Conficker
Prompted by the spread of the Conficker worm through infected USB drives, Microsoft Corp. will unveil changes in next week's …
Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management
Microsoft opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of …
Windows Mobile to get voice command capability
Microsoft has high hopes that a new speech-recognition application for the forthcoming Windows Mobile operating system will be attractive enough …
Hands on: Running Windows 7 on a netbook
Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter …
Microsoft cuts UAC prompts in Windows 7
User Account Control, a Windows Vista security feature that has long been considered intrusive, will appear about one-third less often …
Developers to get Windows 7 RC next week
Some Microsoft developers will be able to download a near-final version of the company's Windows 7 operating system next week, …
Windows 7 gets virtual ‘XP mode’
Microsoft Corp. will unveil an add-on to Windows 7 that lets users run applications designed for Windows XP in a …
Windows bugs never really die
Hackers can successfully attack Windows PCs months — even years — after Microsoft Corp. fixes a flaw, a security expert …
Microsoft leaks Windows 7 RC delivery date
Microsoft will deliver a release candidate of Windows 7 in little more than two weeks, the company's Web site revealed …
VMware bug allows Windows hack to attack Macs
A bug in VMware's Fusion virtualization software could be used to run malicious code on a Mac by exploiting Windows …
1 in 5 Windows PCs still hackable by Conficker
Although the media blitz about the Conficker worm prompted a significant number of enterprise users to finally fix a six-month-old …
Intel’s Atom chips to support Windows 7 this year
Intel Corp. plans to make sure all of its popular Atom microprocessors support at least two versions of Microsoft Corp.'s …