Yesterday at CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. At PC World we’ve been running our own evaluations of the forthcoming replacement to ...

Windows beta testing ain't what it used to be. Over the past couple of days, this reality seems to be setting in among some Windows 7 testers. Windows 7's testing and release schedule is like that for ...

Last week my colleague Mary Jo Foley reported on rumblings of discontent from the invitation-only Windows 7 technical beta test community: A number of Windows 7 testers have complained recently that ...

Microsoft has reopened the Windows 10 beta channel and is asking Insiders to join or switch to receive a new beta build in the coming weeks. The announcement comes three years after the last Windows ...

Windows has been at the center of the PC business for so long now that it is impossible to imagine a world without it. While it has had its highs and lows, Windows 10 has been a relatively stable ...

Raycast isn't trying to replace Windows Search. It's rethinking what happens after you find something, and that's exactly why ...

Right up against the weekend here in late July, 2021, Microsoft released the first official Beta for Windows 11. This release is available to anyone who wishes to join the Windows Insiders program, ...

The new version of Windows is now available in beta, so you can have a look see what all the fuss is about. Joe has been writing about consumer tech for nearly seven years now, but his liking for all ...

Microsoft released a technical preview of Windows 10 this morning, and it’s available for download here. System requirements are a 1GHz or faster processor, 1GB of RAM for 32-bit systems or 2GB for 64 ...

Before I switched to a Mac as my primary computer, I had made my Windows 11 PC a lot more useful by using Flow Launcher. And when I settled in on macOS, I found Raycast, which is a similar launch bar ...

In December 2021, Google revealed plans to bring its Android games to the Windows operating system in a big way, something it had said would start in 2022. We're less than a month into the new year ...

Windows Vista, Microsoft’s newest OS and arguably its largest project ever has finally hit Beta 2. Windows Vista is the latest and most complex operating system to emerge from Microsoft’s Redmond, WA ...