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 ...

Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site outlining the minimum hardware requirements for the next version of the Windows operating system, Windows Vista. The move comes ...

Consumers can finally get their hands on Microsoft Corp.'s long-delayed Windows Vista, but unlike the mad midnight rushes retailers saw with the recently released video game consoles, stores saw only ...

Court documents unsealed last Thursday by Judge Marsha Pechman in the class-action suit over Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's Vista Capable stickers add some new details and famous names to the ...

The big day is finally upon us. Microsoft on Tuesday will release the consumer version of its much-anticipated—and oft-delayed—Windows Vista operating system (OS). CSOonline.com and our sister site ...

Click to viewJust got back from a weekend visit to the Microsoft campus up in Redmond, Washington where I got the chance to hear about Windows Vista and other new MS creations, like the Xbox 360 and ...

Windows Vista has some complicated system requirements, especially when it comes to memory and graphics card performance. In an attempt to try to simplify things for user and buyers, Microsoft has ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

Last month I began hearing rumblings of problems with the product activation system in Windows Vista. Last week I got to see the problem firsthand. The bottom line? The simple act of updating some ...

A week ago I wrote about my investigations into System Restore on Windows XP and Windows Vista. I have since heard back from a program manager at Microsoft, who said of the Vista default disk ...

Microsoft Corp. has launched a Web site outlining the minimum hardware requirements for the next version of the Windows OS, Windows Vista. Apple hasn’t announced ...