During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Microsoft agreed Tuesday to make changes to the desktop ...

Customers that acquire Vista Enterprise through Software Assurance can run four copies of Windows on one device for a single user at no additional charge, Microsoft said at its Velocity 2006 partner ...

As Microsoft continues to recommend that business customers not pass over Vista in favor of the forthcoming Windows 7, the company has been working quietly to improve its software for desktop ...

Microsoft Corp. will change how desktop search works in its Vista operating system by the end of the year, in response to an antitrust complaint by rival Google Inc., the company said in court ...

Upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP has been impossible -- until now. Parallels has announced a piece of software that lets users upgrade from any version of XP or Vista to the latest Windows OS, ...

A year ago, when I turned on my Vista machine for the first time, it didn’t take long to realize that unless I mastered keyboard and desktop shortcuts I would be wasting a lot of computing time ...

As most Windows watchers know by now, Windows 7 has some cool interface tweaks, starting with large, eye-pleasing program icons that take up residence in the taskbar. Of course, this is little more ...

I've been running a php timekeeping script on the active directory desktop in windows 2000 for a while. I just today installed Windows Vista and I'd like to add the same script to my desktop. However, ...

This article is excerpted from The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Windows Vista, with permission of Wiley Publishing Inc., all rights reserved. As one of the main ...

California AG Jerry Brown said Microsoft had agreed to make the 'significant changes' in Vista to stay in antitrust compliance following Google complaint Microsoft will make changes to its desktop ...