Windows 11 no longer plays the Vista startup sound. Microsoft says it was just a bug, but the timing with Apple’s new UI says ...

The Vista boot-up sound is the same jingle played on boot-up of Windows 7, but Microsoft specifically cites it as the Windows ...

The bug was introduced in a Windows Insider Preview build of Microsoft's flagship operating system in June. Affected users ...

The crosshair for the mouse cursor was in testing last year, then it vanished - but Microsoft has returned it to the latest ...

After pressure from Intel, Microsoft relaxed the rules for a crucial Windows Vista marketing program, a move that let the chip maker sell older graphics chip sets that were incapable of meeting ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista recorded about half as many vulnerabilities in its first full year of availability as Windows XP did in its opening 12 months, company security executives said ...

SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. will delay the consumer release of its new Windows operating system until January 2007, missing the holiday sales season and throwing some PC makers and retailers ...

Microsoft won’t repeat this mistake with Vista, Sinofsky said, and because the OS kernel — or its underlying code base — is the same as the one in Vista and Windows Server 2008, all of the ...

Partners are impressed by MinWin, the slimmed down Windows core on which future Windows releases will be based. But some feel MinWin might cause companies to avoid Vista altogether.

Just like XP, Windows 7 was also successful. Let’s look at how Microsoft stock has fared since the company launched Windows Vista 17 years ago. Microsoft stock price from Jan. 30, 2007, till today ...