Starting today, March 19, 2013, Microsoft will start rolling out automatically Windows 7 SP1 to its users via Windows Update. The new change comes right on time, considering that Microsoft is terminating the mainstream support for Windows 7 with no Service Pack very soon. And to ensure customers will continue having support, the software giant has [...]
On Tuesday Microsoft finally made available for download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 after many months on the making. The new web browser shares all the same technologies as the version of IE10 in Windows 8 and Windows RT, but with the exception of the modern chromeless UI with the distinctive URL bar at [...]
Microsoft has been working for a while getting ready Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7, and for millions of users today the wait is over. IE10 for Windows 7 ditches the “Release Preview” label and becomes available for everyone to download in 95 languages, bringing better JavaScript performance and improved battery life on portable devices. [...]
Following the traditional product lifecycle and after nearly four years, Microsoft is about to end support of Windows 7 RTM (Release To Manufacture), the version of the operating system with no service pack on April 9, 2013. This essentially means that now is the right time to install Service Pack 1. Windows 7 with SP1 [...]
When upgrading from any new version of Windows, you will always be recommended (at least by me) to make a full backup of your PC before proceeding. This is just in case things were to go wrong and you have to rollback, for example, from Windows 8 to Windows 7 and, of course, to protect your [...]
Microsoft is today putting an end to the vulnerability found in old versions of Internet Explorer (6-8) that allowed an attacker to execute harmful code in a target computer, if the user was tricked by a specially crafted website. Soon after the security hole was found, the software giant quickly made available a temporary workaround [...]
The Mail Windows 8 app is a simple and really useful email client that comes bundled with the operating system, and with every update more features become available. One of these features that you might not have noticed is that after adding your Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and even IMAP email accounts, anyone can [...]
Microsoft has just made available for download Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview for Windows 7. This latest preview can be downloaded from the Microsoft website. But here is the thing, IE10 for Windows 7 is in its pre-release stages, which means that anyone should not be using this code in a production Windows PC, for [...]
Today in a quick response to the matter, Microsoft is rolling out two security updates to resolve the security flaws on Internet Explorer. In this Windows Update the software giant is releasing two patches: The first patch 2744842 (described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-063), permanently fixes the vulnerability on IE7, IE8 and Internet Explorer 9 on [...]
Days after the newly discovered weakness in Internet Explorer (versions 9, 8, 7 and 6) that could potentially put at risk a massive number of Windows PCs, Microsoft has made available a temporary resolution for the problem in form of a Windows Fix it (kb2757760), also an update scheduled to be released this Friday to permanently path the issue. The [...]