SEATTLE — Jim Allchin emerged on stage from behind the black curtain carrying a large cardboard box yesterday. The co-president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division was the last speaker ...

Having written the article "Why You Want Vista Now!" in our May 9 issue, I held my breath when I installed beta 2, fearing that after the OS gets hammered by as many ...

Microsoft's Enterprise Desktop Virtualization beta lets users run legacy apps from Windows XP and Windows 2000 on Windows Vista; the final release is expected later this year Microsoft has released ...

Back in April, news reports stated that Microsoft planned to turn off half the firewall in Vista, disabling the outbound filtering capabilities by default -- making its defense identical to that of ...

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant announced on Wednesday the availability of the first official beta of its newly named Windows Vista, formerly code-named Longhorn. At the recent TechEd 2005, ...

Computerworld obtained a recent interim build of Windows Vista, Build 5472, that shows Microsoft is making progress in the areas of performance and installation time, has refined the User Account ...

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

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Microsoft agreed Tuesday to make changes to the desktop ...

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

After four long years of talking the talk, Microsoft on Wednesday gave the outside world its first official look at its next generation operating system, shipping Beta 1 Release of the recently ...