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 ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer isn’t so sure about how folks are going to respond to Windows 7. As Mary-Jo Foley says in a ZDNet blog post, Ballmer told Bloomberg that “The test feedback (on Windows 7) ...

Windows Vista is one of the most infamous versions of the OS, living alongside Windows ME and Windows 8 as the ones people love to hate. And while Vista certainly had its problems, it wasn’t a ...

Initial sales of Windows 7 boxed software surpassed those of Vista's by 234 percent in the first few days of the operating system's availability on the US market, according to data collected by NPD's ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

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 ...

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, ...

It might seem impossible to believe, but Windows Vista is drawing to the end of its short, unhappy life. Under Microsoft's official product lifecycle, the mainstream support phase for Windows Vista ...

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 ...