With Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) falling out of support in less than a year, users of that operating system will begin seeing regular notices from Microsoft warning of the impending deadline starting in April.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 14, 2019
Starting April 1, organizations can purchase Microsoft's Windows 7 Extended Security Updates plan to extend the life of their Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) implementations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2019
Microsoft on Friday announced the "general availability" of Windows Defender ATP support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 22, 2019
A new Windows 10 Office app is set to arrive for business and consumer users in the next few weeks, according to a Microsoft announcement on Wednesday, effectively "replacing" the current MyOffice app that comes preinstalled on Windows 10 systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 21, 2019
The next Windows 10 feature update release, due this spring, will mark a few changes to Microsoft's Windows servicing lingo and management behavior.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 15, 2019
Windows 10 versions 1803 and 1709 now have support, with some limitations, for Microsoft's MSIX packaging format.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 12, 2019
Microsoft this week assured organizations that they're not likely to face application compatibility issues if they move to Windows 10.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 17, 2019
Windows 7 entered its final year of support on Jan. 14, as did Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. The two products are due to fall out of "extended support" on Jan. 14, 2020.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 15, 2019
A gallery of the most interesting Windows 10 offerings from this year's event.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 14, 2019
Microsoft this week described a new "Reserved Storage" feature coming to Windows 10 that will allocate about 7GB of a PC's storage space for OS updates.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 11, 2019
Windows 10's convoluted update practices drew a lot of attention this year, but so did many other key Microsoft developments. Below are the most popular news articles of the past year.
- By RCP Staff
- December 20, 2018
Microsoft this week released a new resource to help businesses find and troubleshoot problems on their Microsoft Surface devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 13, 2018
As part of an ongoing effort to be more transparent about its monthly Windows update process, Microsoft this week shared its rationale for sometimes releasing Windows updates that don't follow the standard schedule.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 11, 2018
Organizations can now sign up to test drive the Microsoft 365 suite via a new "Insider" program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 10, 2018
It's now possible to use devices based on the Fast IDentity Online 2.0 (FIDO2) protocol with a Microsoft account and Windows 10 version 1809 to verify user access, Microsoft announced on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 27, 2018