Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Above and beyond the benefits of a fresh do-over, clean installing Windows 11 improves security, exposes new features, and more. With the Windows 10 end of support date arriving on October 14, ...

Dozens of sites reported this week that Windows 7 usage is "skyrocketing." The reports are based on charts from a notoriously unreliable source. More likely explanation: Changes in iOS 26 are ...

Every month, Statcounter publishes market share figures for the various Windows versions, but this month’s figures are something special. In September 2025, an ancient Windows version that hasn’t been ...

Kyle has a degree in Film, Television, and Cultural Studies and has loved video games for as long as he can remember. He's owned every PlayStation, dabbled with the occasional Xbox, and even owned a ...

California will spend more money amid a significant budget shortfall as the state will have to mail out correction postcards ahead of the November special election. The California Secretary of the ...

Mozilla is once again throwing a lifeline to users still running older versions of Windows. The company has announced yet another extension of support for its Firefox 115 Extended Support Release (ESR ...

In a nutshell: Mozilla has announced another support extension for Firefox on older operating systems, including Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and macOS 10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra, and 10.14 ...

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Windows upgrades to fail with 0x8007007F errors on some Windows 11 and Windows Server systems. Although this issue impacts both Windows client and ...

You can download Google Chrome for Windows 7 with this method. No complex steps or redirection to a third party app. It downloads Chrome straight from the Google ...