Microsoft will continue to sell Windows 7 and 8.1 to OEMs until 31 October 2016. Retail boxed sales are finished.

Microsoft has decided that the new, over-arching snooping features in Windows 10 are such a good thing that it is quietly including them in Windows 7 and Windows 8.

HP says its current range of Windows-based PCs running Windows 7 or 8.1 is ready for the Windows 10 upgrade from 29 July 2015, so keep happily purchasing!

Microsoft has announced that pirated copies of Windows 7 and 8.1 will be upgraded free to Windows 10 but will stay in a non-genuine state until paid for.

With Microsoft shamefully preventing Windows 7 from upgrading with apps and settings intact to Windows 8.1, it appears this will be rectified with the Windows 10 OS upgrade.

Microsoft has announced the latest version of its Windows operating system. It is called Windows 10, skipping a release number to give the impression of a major advance.

PCs running Windows 7 or Windows Vista have a higher chance of being infected with malware than Windows XP computers, according to Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report.

Honeywell has released a major enhancement to its Refinery and Petrochemical Modeling System (RPMS) which it says will improve model building and maintenance, case management, and optimisation to help plants maximise profitability.

A new version of Parallels Access provides full support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and simplifies use of the product with certain corporate networks.

HP in the US is promoting Windows 7 PCs rather than those running Windows 8.

As expected, Microsoft has released seven security bulletins covering issues with Windows and other software, notably Internet Explorer. There's also a policy change regarding vulnerabilities in software sold through the company's various online stores.

Microsoft intends to release seven security bulletins this week. Affected products include Windows, Office, and Windows Defender.

April's Patch Tuesday will see the release of nine security bulletins by Microsoft, two of them rated critical.

Microsoft is set to release patches for a whopping 57 vulnerabilities later this week.

The first Patch Tuesday for 2013 has rolled around, and Microsoft has released seven security bulletins addressing a dozen vulnerabilities. It's also one of those months when Adobe releases updates alongside Microsoft.

Microsoft released six security bulletins on November's Patch Tuesday. Four are rated critical, and a total of 17 vulnerabilities are addressed.

Microsoft is preparing to release six security bulletins this month, four rated critical, one important and one moderate. Even Windows RT and Server 2012 are affected.

Microsoft released seven security bulletins overnight, addressing a total of 20 vulnerabilities. Only one of the bulletins is rated critical, and there are also wide-ranging non-security updates this month - only Microsoft's Mac customers miss out.

It looks like being a particularly quiet Microsoft Patch Tuesday this month - so quiet that it seems most systems will not need to be patched for security reasons.

Acronis has boosted cloud storage support to the latest version of its disk-based backup software for home users, Acronis True Image 2013.