Now that the final version of Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing, it's time to find out how much of an improvement or not it will make over its predecessors, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

On the one hand, Microsoft’s move to bring Windows 10 to an entirely new chip architecture is one of the most exciting things to happen in the mobile computing space in years. On the other hand, early ...

Microsoft’s recent introduction of a native NVMe SSD performance driver for Windows Server 2025 has drawn attention after ...

Considering Windows has been ridiculed for decades because of its weak security, it's no surprise that Microsoft is making security a critical factor in Windows 11. It has even made certain ...

We took some of our favorite Windows 8 PCs and upgraded to Windows 10 in order to test application performance. Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native ...

TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.

Measured by runtime specs and performance benchmarks, Windows 7 M3 looks like Vista, and it runs like Vista. Welcome to Windows Vista R2! It’s here! After months of speculation, Windows 7 was finally ...

The earliest glimpses we've had of an unofficial Windows 11 build focused mainly on what users will see first. Those revolved around the very visible changes to the Start Menu and Taskbar and some ...

Security benchmarks for operating systems are typically arcane measures that get little public attention. But last week’s release of a security benchmark for Windows 2000 Professional drew broad ...

Windows 10 performance is one of the hardest things to nail down right now. Testing of the new OS, due to ship on July 29, isn’t exactly easy, because the public doesn’t yet have a way to install the ...

Microsoft has admitted that turning on BitLocker on PCs with NVMe SSDs can have a noticeable performance impact.