This week has seen lots of talk about Microsoft Windows 8 coming to hardware running on ARM processors. Now, the first prototypes, from Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments, are on display here at ...

Intel’s upcoming Core i-series processors based on the Ivy Bridge architecture are being pitched at ultrabooks, but the company is now extending the chips to high-performance tablets with Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft claims to be “embracing silicon innovation” by restricting upcoming CPU architectures to Windows 10 only. In effect, the company is preventing people from running Windows 7 and 8.1 on new ...

As it promised, Microsoft has stopped issuing updates for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users whose PCs run Intel’s seventh-generation processors (codename Kaby Lake), AMD’s seventh-generation processors ...

Last year Microsoft Corp. reimagined and redesigned Windows, and, for the first time Windows ran on an ARM chip. The result of bringing Windows RT together with Qualcomm Snapdragon processors has ...

We knew Microsoft was planning to block installation of Windows 7 and 8.1 updates on systems with Intel 7th Generation Core processors (more memorably known as Kaby Lake) and AMD Ryzen systems; we ...

Late last year, it was reported that Microsoft may halt support for newer processors and it looks like Microsoft has just made it official. According to a new ...

Windows Vista may have just been finally put to rest, but it won't be alone soon. Well, not too soon, at least. Windows 7 and even Windows 8.1 have been put on notice, whether you like or not. And ...

A recently published Knowledge Base article suggests that Microsoft is going to block Windows Updates for owners of the latest Intel and AMD processors if they try to run Windows 7 or 8.1. Last year, ...