Windows Vista’s launch in late 2006 and early 2007 was one of the toughest chapters in Microsoft’s history. There’s still a lot to learn from Vista.

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.

PC” migration tool for Windows 11, reports Windows Latest. A few months ago, the Insider Dev version of Windows 11 gained a ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista recorded about half as many vulnerabilities in its first full year of availability as Windows XP did in its opening 12 months, company security executives said ...

In a 'Windows Vista Post Mortem' document from Dell that was apparently circulated to Microsoft, the assessment by Dell was that 'Customers did not understand what 'Capable' meant and expected ...

Microsoft won’t repeat this mistake with Vista, Sinofsky said, and because the OS kernel — or its underlying code base — is the same as the one in Vista and Windows Server 2008, all of the ...

Following the beta release of Windows 7, Microsoft is sending the message to companies not to give Vista a miss, saying investments toward adopting the OS can be reused when Windows 7 is ready ...

SEATTLE, Oct. 4 -- -- SEATTLE, Oct. 4 -- In an effort to curb software piracy, Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday that people running an unlicensed copy of its future Windows Vista operating will ...

Indeed, Microsoft had to extend the life of Windows XP for small netbook computers because system makers said Vista would barely run on those devices at all. Microsoft has now learned its lesson ...

Microsoft has a reputation for shipping alternating bad than good operating systems, and Vista’s position between Windows XP and Windows 7 just perpetuated that. Windows 7 (2009) ...

A group within Microsoft Corp. recommended in 2005 that the lowest-priced version of Windows Vista be released without the "Vista" name because of concerns over "user product expectations ...

Instead, Microsoft urged users who have downloaded and installed the beta of Windows 7 — the only officially-issued version offered to the general public — to restore their PCs to Vista. “We ...