If your customers are like most companies, they're either running Windows 7 already or figuring out ways to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately, Microsoft offers no direct path for ...

Microsoft Tuesday confirmed that it will sell what it calls “upgrades” for Windows 7 to users running the aged Windows XP operating system. Microsoft Tuesday confirmed that it will sell what it calls ...

In this second part of my Windows 7 series I will address why XP users who fought so hard to protect Windows XP will finally let it go and move to Windows 7. As I had said yesterday, the resistance to ...

Many of you did not upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista, but are planning to upgrade to Windows 7. How dare you leave the Microsoft upgrade path? As a punishment, you can't upgrade directly from ...

In Windows 7, Microsoft will give customers the ability to run older applications from within a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC, a move that solution providers are ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...

Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing a company-sponsored report that claims annual support costs for ...

Windows XP Mode, one of the most hyped features of Windows 7, was designed to integrate XP with Windows 7 so that you can run XP applications from directly inside Windows 7. Microsoft has touted the ...

If your IT department is scrambling to ditch Windows XP before support for the operating system ends next April, the odds are very good that you’ll soon be running Windows 7—and not Windows 8.1, which ...