Instead of enhancing and improving the previous menu designs from Windows 7 and 10, Microsoft opted for a backward redesign,” Lance Whitney suggests, noting that an overhaul is expected.

including Windows, Xbox, Outlook, and Office. This continued as recently as last year, when Microsoft integrated AI-powered Bing into Skype. However, the company also maintained its Lync messaging ...

Ballmer aimed to integrate Skype with several Microsoft products, including Lync, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Phone and Xbox video game consoles. Microsoft also got Skype running on its Azure ...

in today’s guide we’re going to answer whether it’s possible to run DirectX 12 on Windows 7, so let’s get started. No, Windows 7 doesn’t support DirectX 12. The system lacks certain features that ...

Many users reported that Roblox is not working on Windows 7, and this is expected after developers dropped support for Windows 7. However, there might be still a way to play the game, by following ...

Management and deployment have been simplified to help lower costs, including in-place upgrades from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 that ... Skype, and Lync. Customized education environment with ...

Here’s how it works. One of the most promising use cases for AI in a massive operating system like Windows 11 is navigating the maze of settings, menus and options. Being able to type “turn on ...

Microsoft has confirmed that users can no longer use old Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 keys to activate Windows 11. And that applies not only to Canary builds, as it was last month—from now on ...

Microsoft is no longer allowing users to activate Windows 11 using a Windows 7 or Windows 8 key. The company had quietly announced the change two weeks ago, but Paul’s own testing showed that it ...

Despite the end of support for Windows 7, with the operating system no longer getting security updates from Microsoft, millions of people are still holding onto it heading into the end of the year ...

Why it matters: Windows 7 went out of Microsoft's extended support (through the Extended Security Updates paid program) in January, and software companies are now revealing they will do the same ...

Valve announced this week that it will stop supporting Steam on Windows 7 and Windows 8 on January 1, 2024. "After that date," the company's brief announcement reads, "the Steam Client will no ...