Don Jones takes a look at the new features that will be included in the new Windows operating system, slated for release in late 2006.
Right on schedule, Microsoft released the first beta test version of the newly-renamed Windows Vista on Wednesday. Also sent Longhorn Server beta to separate group of testers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/28/2005
Microsoft this week launched the seventh localized version of its low-cost, reduced-feature Windows XP Starter Edition designed for first-time PC buyers -- this one for Mexico.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/29/2005
Microsoft posted Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, a group of more than 50 security fixes for the five-year-old operating system that enters the extended support phase next week. Microsoft reiterated that there will be no Service Pack 5 for Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/29/2005
OEMs and retailers are citing a lack of customer interest for their decisions not to load onto new computers or stock the version of Windows XP without the Windows Media Player that the European Commission ordered Microsoft to offer, according to a media report.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/23/2005
Windows 2000, Microsoft's five year-old operating system for servers and business desktops, will switch into the "extended support" phase of the product lifecycle after June 30.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/22/2005
The versions of Windows XP stripped of Windows Media Player to comply with a European Commission order will start shipping this month, Microsoft said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/09/2005
System requirements proving hard to nail down; breakthroughs for some scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/01/2005
Microsoft is battling the perception that there's little to get excited about in the long-awaited and much-ballyhooed Longhorn.
- By Scott Bekker and Ed Scannell
- 06/01/2005
Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.
Development snags delay the release of Windows XP Starter Edition.
Microsoft revives second-chance offer for any exam taken worldwide. Limited time offer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/02/2005
Two can take Microsoft's Exam 70-270 for the price of single exam; available for limited time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/15/2005
Microsoft extends "try before you buy" offer to its XP SP2 clinics and hands-on labs for deploying or developing in a Windows XP SP2 enviroment.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/18/2004
Propagating the changes made to a Group Policy Object out to all the affected domain clients involves a complex array of interconnecting pieces.
- By Bill Boswell
- 09/01/2004