Microsoft engages in an extended public mea culpa about Vista, admitting the key reasons why the OS failed among business customers About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of ...

Microsoft on Wednesday gave developers access to a key piece of Windows Vista, months ahead of the operating system's release. The company posted near-final versions of two software development ...

Microsoft is positioning Windows 11 as a wholesale redesign of Windows itself, adding all sorts of flourishes and effects to the operating system. That puts some on edge, remembering the disaster of ...

Allchin, who is retiring after Vista ships, said the operating system remains on schedule to ship to businesses this year, and to consumers in January. Quoting industry analysts, the co-president of ...

If you’re interested in the history of Windows, you probably know a bit about “Longhorn,” Microsoft’s internal codename for the OS update that would eventually become Windows Vista. Microsoft planned ...

Outgoing Windows development chief James Allchin says he was being “purposefully dramatic” in a three-year-old e-mail to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer that surfaced late last ...

Longhorn Server and Vista are of the same ilk. Over 70% of the code in the two products is shared; in fact, Vista and Longhorn Server were being developed together for much of the Vista development ...