In Microsoft's view, the User Account Control feature in Vista, which has been widely criticized for the nagging alerts it generates, has been unfairly maligned in IT industry circles.

Trauma-inducing startup sound finally axed Great news! Microsoft has finally squashed a Windows 11 Insider bug. No, it still hasn't "Made the Start Menu Great Again." No, you still can't drag the ...

The Vista boot-up sound is the same jingle played on boot-up of Windows 7, but Microsoft specifically cites it as the Windows Vista sound, and Vista was technically first.

Vista views: Microsoft's license changes Readers pitch on whether Microsoft is being too stringent in restricting Vista transfers to one PC. Oct. 18, 2006 4:00 a.m. PT 10 min read ...

Microsoft Corp. Thursday released an update to Windows Vista that will shut down unauthorized versions of the operating system tweaked to allow users to skip the product’s activation system.

Microsoft Vista product management guy, Mike Nash, announced on the Vista blog today that Vista Service Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing. Some current Vista users were ticked off to learn ...

Microsoft today officially finished the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of its upcoming Windows Vista operating system, with its head of development admitting he’s relieved that the much ...

Astute readers will remember that Windows Vista was notorious for bogging down slower machines with its Aero theme. At the time, Aero was a massive change from how Windows XP looked with its glass ...

Microsoft has allowed PC vendors to put stickers on their systems saying that they are "Vista ready," when the system could run only Vista Home Basic, which does not allow many of the core ...

"I can't imagine that Microsoft is going to give up on Vista, in the sense of engineering a complete redesign. If anything, MinWin will extend off of what Vista is providing," said Swank.

Microsoft Volume Activation 2.0 and KMS (Key Management Service) for Windows Server 2003 provide volume activation technologies so businesses can activate multiple Vista PCs across the company.

Vista’s integration of Windows Defender, a sort of antimalware service, will also help. On the server side, Vista will ship with an improved version of the Windows Firewall popularized by ...