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Despite being abandoned by Microsoft over three years ago, Windows XP is still the world’s third-most popular operating system. According to the latest statistics, it is still installed on 7.04 percent of computers around the world, eclipsed only by Windows 7 and Windows 10. Read More Windows...

The focus of Windows 10 S, which was originally expected to be called Windows 10 Cloud Edition, is on providing the minimum functionality required to get work done. Microsoft provided a very general overview of the newest version of Windows 10. First, Windows 10 S allows app installations from...

The stat trackers at StatCounter have come out with their internet usage numbers for the month of March, and they have, for the first time, reported Android as the world's most popular operating system. Nudging ahead of the once-untouchable Windows by a tiny fraction, Android is now the world's...

After more than eight years in the hands of consumers, Android is poised to overtake Windows as the most used operating system in the world. This measurement comes by way of web analytics firm StatCounter, which follows trends in worldwide web traffic. Microsoft Windows holds the slimmest of...

Microsoft is planning to quietly end support for Vista in just one month. After April 11th, 2017, Vista will receive no more updates. Read More I think this would not upset most Vista users since Windows Updates sometimes mess up Windows even more when they release a bad update. At least...

Microsoft revealed the new playable ads advertisement option on the Windows Dev Center blog today that developers can take advantage of. "Playable Ads are a completely new way for end users to interact with ads and apps. With this capability, end users never leave the current app. The ad click...

I think there maybe a lot of Android and Windows tablet which copy the Nintendo Switch sort of like how there are a lot of Android and Windows tablet which copied the PSP, and Nintendo DS. But, if the Switch becomes less popular like the Wii U, there would be fewer clone tablets with Android...

The GPD Pocket is expected to support either Windows 10 or Ubuntu 16.04 Linux. GPD is just showing off a few rendered images and mockup prototypes at this point, so we’ll have to wait a while to see a final, working product. But the company expects the system’s features to include: 7 inch...

Windows 10 only managed to make a 0.06-percent increase over the course of a calendar month. In that same span of time, the years-old Windows 7 jumped from a 48.27 percent share to a 48.38 share, according to a report from MS Power User. Obviously, being beaten out by an earlier version of the...

Microsoft has shortened the recovery rollback period from 30 days to just 10 days in a bid to help free up some more space on consumer PCs. As reported by SuperSite for Windows, the company previously allowed for 30 days before previous installs of Windows were deleted on a PC, allowing those...

Rovio has bid farewell to both Windows Phone and the PC, advising its users in an email recently that it is dropping support for both platforms. If you haven’t downloaded the Rovio game you want onto your Windows Phone device or PC, it appears you’re out of luck, at least in certain cases (some...

As the free Windows 10 upgrade offer is ending in less than than a month, the company appears to be making one final push to persuade Windows 7 and 8.1 users to update to its latest OS. Now, full screen notifications will show up for a subset of users, touting it as "the most secure Windows ever...

Microsoft took the stage last year during E3 and showed and promised a lot to their fans. But did they keep their promises? Kotaku runs it down. They mostly kept their word, but most have yet to see day of light or was delayed.

If you don't want Windows 10, whether free or otherwise, do not just click on the "X" close button of the latest Get Windows 10 nag windows. While that tool has bordered on just merely annoying for the past months, it has allegedly become more than simply aggressive. It has become deceitful...

I wonder can the Apple Watch run Windows XP.

Microsoft's nine-year-old operating system, Windows Vista, will stop receiving updates in exactly one year from now. Luckily for Microsoft, most users abandoned Vista a long time ago when they made the move to the superior Windows 7 and therefore the company won't have to make too much of an...

It's now been exactly two years since Microsoft ceased support for Windows XP, meaning that users of the OS are no longer covered with security updates. As such, vulnerabilities in the software waiting to be exploited – yet still a worrying amount of people are using Microsoft's zombie-like...

It looks like with all the fanfare that surrounded Windows 10 just recently, it does not seem as though Microsoft is about to put in all that much effort to make Windows Phone a priority for the year 2016. Of course, this particular bit of information should not come across as a surprise, since...

#GDC, #Steam Games, #Remix OS, #CodeWeavers. Play your Windows games on Remix Android using CrossOver for Android as shown at GDC 2016 in San Francisco. This is the Steam client running natively on Remix OS using CrossOver for Android. We were able to launch and play a couple of games from the...

GPD is working on a model with Windows 10 software and an Intel Atom Cherry Trail processor. So far, it looks like GPD is considering a device with a 5.5 inch, 1280 x 720 pixel capacitive touchscreen, a physical keyboard for thumb typing, and game control buttons above the keyboard. The device...