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Windows 10 overtakes Windows 7 in global usage

Diyan — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 08:22:43 +0000

The most used Deskop OS in January was Windows 10

StatCounter measures the desktop usage share by aggregating data of 2 million websites. It’s an indicator about which OS is used the most for a specific month, not which OS ... Read More

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Emergency update released for Windows to disable the buggy Intel patch

Diyan — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:33:54 +0000

Windows 10, 8.1 and 7 get updates to disable Spectre 2 security patch

Intel released in January firmware updates for its Broadwell and Haswell processors that should protect against the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, the updates caused troubles for ... Read More

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Windows 10 is installed on more than 24% of all machines

Diyan — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 07:50:31 +0000

Windows 7 still leads with 48.34%

Microsoft’s latest OS is now running on 24.36% of all Desktop machines in use, according to a report at NetMarketShare. Windows 10 was on 23.72% of the machines in November, which means an ... Read More

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Microsoft releases a big cumulative update for Windows 7

Michael — Wed, 18 May 2016 14:27:21 +0000

Update for Windows 7 SP1 brings all security and non-security patches

A ‘convenience rollup’ update is now available for PC running Windows 7 Service Pack 1. The cumulative update includes all security and non-security updates released between Windows 7 SP1 ... Read More

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