Are you still running Windows 8.1? Microsoft ended extended support for that version back on January 10, 2023. That means those of you stuck with the old operating system have been out of the loop ...

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that old Windows 7 and 8/8.1 keys are now "fully blocked" from activating clean Windows 11 installs. That includes the current stable release ...

Mozilla has announced that it will continue to support its Firefox browser on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 until at ...

Paint.NET, a popular free image editor we recently mentioned in our "Top 11 apps for Windows 11 users" article, has received a major feature update. Version 5.0 is now available for download from ...

Normally, you’d run Microsoft’s PC Health Check Tool to see if your computer can handle Windows 11, but that tool is designed for Windows 10 and won’t work in Windows 8.1.