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Nvidia ends support for Windows 7 and 8, as well as Kepler GPUs

13 October 2021, 11:11

On the positive side, the GeForce v496.13 WHQL driver is optimised for Back 4 Blood.

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AMD's Radeon driver moves Windows 7 to legacy support

23 June 2021, 10:11

And the latest 21.6.1 driver no longer supports pre-Polaris graphics cards / APUs.

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Windows 7 nears EOL anniversary - still has over 100 million users

31 December 2020, 11:11

But thankfully active online Windows XP users are firmly below the 1 per cent mark.

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Windows 7 market share dips to under a quarter of PCs

4 June 2020, 12:11

Spending on new laptops for WFH and students helped Win 10 advance recently.

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Windows 7 still OS choice of more than a quarter of Windows users

4 March 2020, 12:11

Microsoft sees this is an 'opportunity' but blames Covid-19 and Intel for stalling upgrade rate.

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Microsoft will release a free Windows 7 'black desktop' fix

27 January 2020, 13:31

OS maker previously shared workarounds for the problem. Software update is due in Feb.

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Windows 7 support ends today

14 January 2020, 11:11

One in four Windows PCs is still running Windows 7, according to StatCounter.

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Microsoft prepares full screen nag for Windows 7 holdouts

11 December 2019, 12:11

Notification will start to appear on 15th January, the day after the end of support for this OS.

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Microsoft extends OS upgrade nags to Windows 7 Pro users

18 October 2019, 15:11

It previously ruled out such alerts for Pro and Enterprise versions of the ageing OS.

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Microsoft announces extended Windows 7 support for SMBs

2 October 2019, 12:11

Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) will be available for a fee through to Jan 2023.

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Windows 7's market share dropped sharply in July

6 August 2019, 11:11

Migration to Windows 10 accelerates as Windows 7 end-of-support looms (January 2020).

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Microsoft is ending support for its classic Internet Games

11 July 2019, 12:14

Internet games services will end on 31st July for XP and ME, and on 22nd Jan 2020 for Windows 7.

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Microsoft fixed 88 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday

12 June 2019, 13:41

Among them were four zero-day flaws, and 21 critical vulnerabilities.

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Microsoft's worm patches are breaking AV software

21 May 2019, 14:11

And this can cause some PCs to hang when booting.

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Microsoft releases worm fix for older versions of Windows

15 May 2019, 11:21

It hopes to stem WannaCry-style attacks propagating via the horde of older systems.

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Microsoft drops plans for Sets feature in Windows 10

23 April 2019, 13:11

Meanwhile, Windows 7 users have started to receive notifications about end of support.

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Valve ends Windows XP and Vista Steam support

2 January 2019, 10:11

And there is a little over a year left of extended support for Windows 7 from Microsoft.

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Microsoft Windows 7: orgs can pay for 3 more years of support

10 September 2018, 10:01

Corporate and institutional customers can pay to keep Win 7 secure until Jan 2023.

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Windows 10 set to unseat Windows 7 by year end

6 August 2018, 12:30

Windows 10 already trumps 7 in StatCounter, soon it will do the same in NetMarketShare.

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Windows 10 finally overtakes Windows 7 says Statcounter

2 February 2018, 11:10

It has taken 29 months to eclipse the 2009 vintage OS, by gaining 42.78 per cent share.

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Windows 7/8.1 updates blocked on Kaby Lake and Ryzen PCs

14 April 2017, 10:01

"Your PC uses a processor that is designed for the latest version of Windows".

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Wine 2.0 released with support for Office 2013, and 64-bit MacOS

26 January 2017, 10:01

Binaries are available now for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, and MacOS.

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Microsoft says Windows 7 isn't fit for modern hardware and security

17 January 2017, 11:01

Asserts people should learn from the Windows XP changeover and upgrade earlier.

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Microsoft ceases OEM sales of Windows 7 Pro and Windows 8.1

2 November 2016, 14:31

Extended support for these OSes runs until 2020 and 2023 respectively.

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Windows 10 is on over 14 per cent of PCs worldwide

2 May 2016, 11:31

Meanwhile Windows 7's market share drops under the 50 per cent mark.

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Uninstall QuickTime for Windows now says US-CERT, Trend Micro

15 April 2016, 12:31

There are two known critical vulnerabilities but Apple won't be updating QuickTime for Windows.

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Microsoft extends Windows 7 and 8.1 Skylake chip support

21 March 2016, 13:01

Support for Windows 7 and 8.1 on Skylake systems extended to 17th July 2018.

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Windows 7 OEM sales to cease on 31st October 2016

3 November 2015, 10:06

Microsoft appears to be confident that Windows 10 will satisfy business users after that date.

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SafeDisc, SecuROM DRM support removed from Windows 8, 7, Vista

24 September 2015, 12:06

Microsoft provides a workaround to its own security patch, warns you against using it.

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Microsoft releases fix for critical flaw in Windows font driver

21 July 2015, 15:06

The flaw exists in all supported versions of Windows.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes 5 'Critical' security issues

11 March 2015, 10:45

A fix for the widespread cross-platform FREAK bug is included.

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Microsoft ends Windows 7 mainstream support today

13 January 2015, 11:50

The termination should not have a major effect on users' day-to-day use of the OS.

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Nine security bulletins detailed by Microsoft for Patch Tuesday

13 October 2014, 10:20

Three 'Critical: Remote Code Execution' patches are among the fixes.

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