With careful planning, you can buy PCs that will both support Windows Vista and last well beyond today's standard life span Once upon a time, you could buy a computer that, despite being technically ...

January 9, 2007 Bill Gates yesterday showcased OQO’s next generation ultra-mobile PC, the model 02, in his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Weighing a mere one pound and ...

An earlier version of Windows for the desktop. Released in late 2006 for businesses and early 2007 for consumers, Vista came in six versions (see Windows Vista versions). Numerous features were added, ...

As Microsoft continues to recommend that business customers not pass over Vista in favor of the forthcoming Windows 7, the company has been working quietly to improve its software for desktop ...

Customers that acquire Vista Enterprise through Software Assurance can run four copies of Windows on one device for a single user at no additional charge, Microsoft said at its Velocity 2006 partner ...

Virtualization, which allows users to run apps from multiple versions of Windows at the same time on a desktop, can alleviate OS/software compatibility issues As Microsoft continues to recommend that ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Microsoft agreed Tuesday to make changes to the desktop ...

Microsoft Corp. will change how desktop search works in its Vista operating system by the end of the year, in response to an antitrust complaint by rival Google Inc., the company said in court ...

A year ago, when I turned on my Vista machine for the first time, it didn’t take long to realize that unless I mastered keyboard and desktop shortcuts I would be wasting a lot of computing time ...

Productivity is a key goal of modern technology. Many products are designed to make our daily tasks easier. This is also true for operating systems. Developers like Microsoft, Apple, and Google are ...

Windows 8 has achieved a 3.17 percent share of desktop operating systems, putting it behind Windows Vista, Microsoft's most disliked OS — until now perhaps. The global figures, from Net Applications, ...

I've been running a php timekeeping script on the active directory desktop in windows 2000 for a while. I just today installed Windows Vista and I'd like to add the same script to my desktop. However, ...