The steady rise of Windows 7 has finally accumulated with the overtaking of Windows XP in the past year to become the most widely used Operating System worldwide. Windows 7’s rise to the top comes on eve of release of Windows 8 which is expected to be released to computer manufacturers in July just three…

From itbusiness.ca: Microsoft has kicked off what it calls a “two-year countdown” to the death of Windows XP and the Office 2003 productivity suite. Separately, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista, the problem-plagued operating system that never really took hold among customers, exited mainstream support on April 10. In a product’s extended support phase, Microsoft provides security…

An excerpt from Computer World: Windows XP quietly turned 10 years old Wednesday, a milestone for the still-popular operating system that powers nearly half the world’s PCs. Microsoft did not celebrate the anniversary, eschewing any congratulatory blog post or press release. On Aug. 24, 2001, Microsoft shifted Windows XP’s status to RTM, for “release to…

Below is an excerpt from our latest Knowledge base article, How Does Downgrade Rights for Windows 7 Work? Introduction Windows 7 is the latest offering in desktop operating systems from Microsoft.  In some cases end-users still need to operate with previous versions of O/S such as Windows XP or Vista. As part of Microsoft’s End…

Please be aware that when upgrading Windows XP based systems to the larger capacity hard drives,  limitations do exist. Here is a short video from Seagate that explains the challenges of using hard drives over 2.1TB

Not everyone has been going with Windows 7 as there are many companies who have standardized on Windows XP Pro and cannot migrate quite yet. Microsoft is to discontinue support on XP Pro SP3 in April 2014 but just try buying a copy. Usually after the first service pack we will see further adoption to…