The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant announced on Wednesday the availability of the first official beta of its newly named Windows Vista, formerly code-named Longhorn. At the recent TechEd 2005, ...

Back in April, news reports stated that Microsoft planned to turn off half the firewall in Vista, disabling the outbound filtering capabilities by default -- making its defense identical to that of ...

Microsoft's Enterprise Desktop Virtualization beta lets users run legacy apps from Windows XP and Windows 2000 on Windows Vista; the final release is expected later this year Microsoft has released ...

In our testing of Microsoft‘s recently released Vista Beta 2 code, we found that in terms of its revamped client-side networking infrastructure and policy-based security controls, it’s in lock step ...

Microsoft Wednesday will release the first beta of the next version of Windows, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. Microsoft Wednesday will release the first beta of the next ...

Computerworld obtained a recent interim build of Windows Vista, Build 5472, that shows Microsoft is making progress in the areas of performance and installation time, has refined the User Account ...