Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows XP, after 12 and a half years of service. The operating system has dominated PC market share and is one of Microsoft's most successful software products. Windows XP is still, incredibly, the second most used PC operating system, behind Windows 7. Users have been given dates and advice but still seem adamant on keeping the old OS. Windows XP expiry date Microsoft actually gave up mainstream support for Windows XP in 2009, four years ago. The company has released statements encouraging users to move to ...

Microsoft’s pre-beta Build release of Windows 8 has influenced users to start using Windows 7 in detriment of the older XP version. As expected, Windows 7 usage has increased almost 2% in only just one month. At the same time, the usage of Windows XP has decreased in almost the same increment, leading to believe that most XP users have jumped to Windows 7 in preparation for the new OS.   Windows 7 to Overtake XP As Most Popular OS According to statistics shared by Net Applications, an Internet metrics company, usage of Windows ...

If you live in the US, you get the full-blown Google experience. If you live in Japan or Australia or anywhere outside of the US, you may not have the same search results as I would. The reason being is, if you look at the Google address you are going to, probably like many other sites in the search results, you have a country code in your top-level domain (TLD). This may be Google.co.uk or Google.co.au. This isn’t bad. However it ...

If you install a lot of programs on your PC you might have noticed that several programs often add a new option to the right-click context menu. Over the time the right-click menu can fill up the entire screen – which is not only difficult to manage but quite confusing. It also considerably slows down the menu opening time. One such option is the “Groove Folder synchronization” module added by Microsoft Office 2007. Not many of us need this module, so lets look at how to remove it, in a few simple steps.

In just over a year since its release to manufacturer (RTM), Windows 7 has overtaken Windows Vista for the first time in total market share worldwide according to web analytics firm, StatCounter. Good news? I think so, after all Windows 7 is the best OS from Microsoft so far. The firm's research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that, in August, Windows 7 took 19.4% total market share, compared to Vista's 17.7% worldwide. XP continues to dominate the global market with 55.4%. Microsoft already revealed that it sold in excess of 175 million copies of Windows 7. The company is projected to ...