Microsoft is gearing up to release the second service pack for its beleaguered Vista operating system. Vista SP2 doesn't have a firm release date just yet, though Microsoft says it will arrive in the ...

The next major update to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system could arrive as late as May or June 2009, months later than originally expected. News site TechArp is reporting an unnamed but ...

Last week, Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 arrived on MSDN, TechNet, and Connect. We noted that testers would not be getting slipstreamed ISOs of the operating systems but ...

Windows Vista's transparent Aero theme was a significant departure from the look of Windows XP. Windows 11 brings transparency back to Microsoft's desktop in a big way, enshrining Vista's legacy.

Vista completely revamped the old, resource-heavy Indexing Service that earlier versions of Windows used to locate files. The Vista indexing engine, which is still in use today, can scan file names, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Yet another version of Windows is entering the home stretch of its support life. One year from ...

Yesterday, Windows Vista beta 2 (build 5384.4) was released to reviewers at the Vista Reviewer's preview gathering in Seattle Washington near Microsoft's corporate headquarters in Redmond. The event ...

If Windows 7 really is scheduled to make an appearance during the second half of 2009, does this mean that making the move to Vista is now a pointless effort? TG Daily claim to have uncovered a ...

If you're still running Windows Vista, you can (and probably should) upgrade to Windows 10. Here's how to do it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The software maker provides the clearest public confirmation yet of when its ship target is for the successor to Windows Vista. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, ...

Microsoft officially says it will ship the Windows 7 operating system within three years of the January 2007 consumer release of Windows Vista. But speculation abounds that the software giant is ...

After a ton of guesswork and rumors flying around, Microsoft has finally confirmed what much of the evidence was pointing to: there will indeed be six editions of Windows 7, just like there were for ...