Part of Microsoft's Windows 7 presentation at the PDC involved the company's mea culpa on problems with Windows Vista and a plan to avoid them in Windows 7 Microsoft on Tuesday for the first time ...

Microsoft launched Windows Vista in 2007 with the tagline “The ‘Wow’ starts now.” If you had invested $1,000 in Microsoft stock when Vista was launched 17 ...

Windows Vista’s launch in late 2006 and early 2007 was one of the toughest chapters in Microsoft’s history. There’s still a lot to learn from Vista. That thought struck me this weekend as I was ...

Windows Vista officially launched on Jan. 30, 2007, and subsequently became one of the most heavily criticized Microsoft products ever released. Thanks to the recent release of the acclaimed and ...

Microsoft Corp. has announced the official name for its upcoming operating system, previously known under the code name Longhorn. The operating system, now due out in 2006, will be called Windows ...

Once you are on a current Beta or Dev Insider build, you'll need to use the ViVeTool, a free command-line utility that ...

Microsoft introduced a new way to view and navigate a network with Windows Vista. This chapter, excerpted from Microsoft Windows Vista Administration, examines such new tools as Network Map and ...

Top Microsoft execs have admitted that “Windows Vista Capable” PCs, which can run only the most basic version of Vista, are “junk,” with Jim Allchin, then co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms and ...

In a Monday blog post, Scott Barnes, a former Microsoft product manager for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight, and now a user experience specialist with Melbourne, Australia-based ...

Prolific Windows Insider explorer "Phantomofearth" unveiled yet another unexpected change that could soon become part of the ...

TL;DR: A Windows Vista-inspired theme for Windows 11 has been facilitated via Windhawk, which offers a library of mods that can be used to customize Microsoft's OS. Be warned: the setup is fiddly, ...