Microsoft has decided to give businesses some more time to move off of Windows XP. Until now, those buying new PCs with Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Professional have had the option to downgrade ...

Microsoft has released Windows 11, and while its public reception is much better than that of, for example, Windows Vista, certain design changes have proven controversial. The design changes aside, ...

Microsoft’s decision to take a radical departure in the user interface of Windows 8 has many of its customers asking the same question. Microsoft has always had downgrade rights in place for its ...

I'm currently running a licensed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate on my laptop. In anticipation of my impending Sandy Bridge build this weekend I purchased a family pack of Windows 7 Home Premium to make ...

A few weeks ago, security researcher Alon Leviev revealed a frightening Windows vulnerability that allows attackers to “downgrade” a secure Windows system and unpatch security flaws, making the hacked ...

A federal judge has dismissed a year-old lawsuit against Microsoft over alleged antitrust violations for the "downgrade" rules it set for Windows Vista and XP. The order issued Monday by U.S. District ...

TL;DR: Microsoft has made it clear that users running Windows 11 on an unsupported PC should revert to run Windows 10 instead. This comes via an update to a support document that offered a workaround ...

Microsoft has relaxed its “downgrade” rules and will let computer makers continue to sell PCs preinstalled with the aged Windows XP for as long as six months after it launches Windows 7, according to ...

After being in its beta stage for months, Microsoft officially released the latest version of its desktop operating system- Windows 11 to the public. We have already covered a detailed guide on how ...

For six months after Windows 7's official launch, Microsoft will let OEMs sell new PCs equipped with Windows XP Professional Microsoft has relaxed its “downgrade” rules and will let computer makers ...