December 12, 2006 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Click to viewJust got back from a weekend visit to the Microsoft campus up in Redmond, Washington where I got ...

It seems that Microsoft doesn't want customers to wait any longer to upgrade to Windows Vista. The message coming in from Redmond is "Do it! Do it NOW!" Try to integrate a Vista box into an existing ...

There are three things that are certain in the life of a network administrator: death, taxes and deployment. Particularly with Windows Vista just around the corner now, you’re probably beginning to ...

Just ask anyone who’s seen Spiderman 3: Good ideas seldom survive bad execution. The developers at Microsoft had some great ideas while designing Vista, but poor implementation turned many of those ...

Microsoft engages in an extended public mea culpa about Vista, admitting the key reasons why the OS failed among business customers About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of ...

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 ...

What if Microsoft waved a magic wand and everything people hated about Windows Vista went away? You might have an operating system that you liked–and that’s what Microsoft appears to be striving for ...

In Windows Vista, several Control Panels, such as Windows Defender, Performance, and Parental Controls, are more like programs than the basic settings managers that Microsoft has traditionally ...

A new Microsoft Windows operating system is always big news, especially for the federal government, which overwhelmingly relies on Windows of one stripe or another to run just about everything. The ...

The Windows Vista boot sound appears in the latest Windows 11 Dev Channel build. The Windows Vista boot sound appears in the latest Windows 11 Dev Channel build. is a senior editor and author of ...