As with using any new computer operating system, pioneering Microsoft's new Vista OS is an activity with high potential for failures, troubleshooting, and cussing. And unlike any other OS before it, ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to make Vista, the newest version of its Windows operating system, available to consumers online when the product is officially rolled out at the end of this ...

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 ...

Hidden behind all of this hoopla, however, is the fact that as much of an improvement Vista is over XP, its main competitor, Mac OS X, still stacks up really well -- and even tops Vista in several ...

Amazon.com has begun peddling Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system on its Web site. The Internet giant is displaying the Vista logo and has priced the software at US$100 to $399. Pricing is ...

Consumers can finally get their hands on Microsoft Corp.'s long-delayed Windows Vista, but unlike the mad midnight rushes retailers saw with the recently released video game consoles, stores saw only ...

In fact, the anti-Vista uproar has been so loud that Microsoft has been forced to keep Windows XP alive in many forms—including as "downgrade options" for OEM customers and, currently, as an ...

digg this story | | Slashdot It! Podcast: David Pogue’s ideas about Vista in corporate environments. This article is excerpted from Windows Vista: The Missing ...

The conventional wisdom, that Mac’s OS X is superior to Windows Vista, is flat-out wrong. In fact, despite much belief to the contrary, Vista is a superior operating system. Here are five reasons why.

Microsoft’s Windows 8 is now a more popular operating system than the reviled Windows Vista, eliminating a source of embarrassment as Microsoft’s latest OS slowly continues to gather steam. According ...

Windows 7 has overtaken Windows XP as the world's most popular desktop operating system, marking the end of the venerable OS' reign over the PC world. Windows 7's market share stands at 42.76 percent ...