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.

Windows 11 test builds are playing the Windows Vista startup sound; A Microsoft exec has confirmed that this is a bug in those previews; That seems a startling coincidence, given that Microsoft ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft wants more Vista testers Written by Ina Fried, Contributor Sept. 14, 2006 at 10:34 a.m. PT Microsoft said on Thursday that it is looking for more people to give Windows Vista a try.

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is still not done with its nostalgic startup sound, and one of the latest Windows 11 updates brings the Windows Vista startup chime once again.