Windows 7 and Vista are staging an unexpected comeback as users push back against Windows 11.

Roblox has officially ended support for the beloved game creation platform on Windows 7 devices, sunsetting the game on older operating systems. Roblox's sunsetting of Windows 7 support follows suit ...

Windows 7 and Vista have unofficially come back to life 9 years after Microsoft ended support for the latter OS. Tech ...

As for the reasoning, this isn't a decision spearheaded by Valve, as Steam relies on an embedded version of Google Chrome, "which no longer functions on older versions of Windows." In addition, future ...

Microsoft is touting the new self-help support baked into Windows 7, even as its engineers continue to wrestle with an “endless reboot” problem that has crippled some computers being upgraded from ...

Steam is no longer supported on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 as of January 1, with the company recommending users upgrade to a newer operating system. The gaming company warned last year that ...

Microsoft today repudiated an early retirement date for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 support, saying that it will patch those operating systems on PCs running Intel’s Skylake silicon until 2020 and 2023, ...

TL;DR: Windows 7 is experiencing a surprising resurgence in 2025, rising to nearly 10% of the global desktop Windows market share, up from 2% in July. Despite Microsoft ending support in 2023, its ...

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