Microsoft is to learn the hard way that "a deal is a deal," at least in the eyes of the European Union, by being forced to swallow a massive fine for breaching earlier promises made with the 27-nation ...

Microsoft is bringing its Edge Web browser to Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 for the very first time. The company this week announced that it has released previews of its Chromium-based Edge browser for ...

Hello, all.<BR><BR>So, I've been using the Windows 7 RC for a while, and I've loved it, but one niggling thing is bothering me. It absolutely will not allow me to use other browsers to handle Internet ...

Here are ZDNET's top picks for a variety of use cases. Read now Microsoft might have stopped providing security updates for Windows 7 almost two years ago. However, enough people are still using the ...

Microsoft will continue to support the new Microsoft Edge in Windows 7 even after the operating system reaches the end of life tomorrow. With tomorrow being the last day that Windows 7 will receive ...

The company began pushing new Edge to Windows 10 users in June, shortly after deprecating legacy Edge on Windows 10. Unlike the old Edge, the new Edge isn't exclusive to Windows 10 and runs on macOS, ...

Yesterday, a Microsoft executive said that computer manufacturers will have the option of selling the Windows 7 operating system without IE in Europe, caving to European Union pressure. But Norweigan ...

The European Antitrust Commission just reported that Microsoft has offered to pre-install rival browsers on Windows 7 – which is due to be released in October. This proposal was offered by Microsoft ...

Google’s Chrome browser is leaving Windows 7 and 8.1 behind. To access new versions of Google’s Chrome browser, users will have to upgrade to Windows 10 or 11. The next upgrade for the Chrome browser ...

Yesterday’s computer news was about something old: Windows 7. After 11 years, Microsoft is officially ending support for it — though as Tom Warren notes, there’s a healthy chance the company will ...

At its MIX Web developer conference this week Microsoft had little to say about the unnamed browser in Windows Phone 7, even as it trumpeted a limited “preview” release of desktop Internet Explorer 9.