Microsoft has ended the free upgrade path from Windows 7/8 to Windows 10/11, though upgrading from 10 to 11 remains free. This means people with older systems will now have to pay if they want to ...

Learn how to download and use Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant, check compatibility, and finish the upgrade without losing files.

The free Windows upgrade party is over, or at least much more restrictive. It's common for Microsoft to offer a free upgrade path when releasing a new version of Windows, but it swung the doors wide ...

For more than seven years, it's been one of the worst-kept secrets in personal computing. Officially, Microsoft's free upgrade offer ended in 2016, but no one in Redmond bothered to reset the ...

If you were hoping to jump from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 for the low cost of zero dollars, you’re now out of luck. Windows has quietly closed the loophole that allowed people to upgrade their PC’s ...

If you've been holding out on upgrading to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or 8, you've just lost your free window as Microsoft has finally pulled the plug on the years-long deal that let Windows 7 and 8 ...

After nearly a decade, Windows 10 reaches the end of mainstream support today. Microsoft will reportedly release the last ...

As of Tuesday, Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10 for free, with the software having reached “End of Life” status. That ...

Microsoft says an earlier blog post contained inaccurate information about changes to the Windows 11 upgrade path. When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, ...

Now that Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14, holdouts on the operating system face larger bugbears than ...