If you can’t—or don’t want to—upgrade to full Windows 11, consider this lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system ...

Windows 10 was launched in July 2015. It was supposed to be the last major operating system (OS) upgrade, but Microsoft released Windows 11 in October 2021, and now Windows 10 has reached end of life, ...

Windows 11 might be the latest version of Windows, but if you still use Windows 10 and need to "clean install" the operating system, or install or upgrade to it for the first time on an older PC, ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

First of all, there is no need to panic about this date. Windows 10 will theoretically continue to run indefinitely, as Microsoft is not discontinuing the functionality of the operating system, there ...

It can still compute, after all.

Google’s $3 ChromeOS Flex kit sold out. Here are five lightweight operating system alternatives for older Windows 10 PCs.

The end is here—at least, it is for Windows 10. Microsoft officially stopped supporting the decade-old operating system on October 14, 2025. There's one hiccup, though: Even though Windows 11 is a ...