After Windows Vista ships, you will have much less time than those running Windows XP to test and deploy the new operating system before independent software vendor support starts waning around 2007 and Microsoft ends all bug-fix support in mid...
Monday's release is the expected third Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of Vista, the successor to Windows XP due by the end of 2006. The latest Vista preview doesn't include all of the features that Microsoft has planned for the Windows...
Windows Aero is actually just a theme, or skin type, used by the Desktop Windows Manager, a new graphical system built into Windows Presentation Foundation. Microsoft improved its file search system in Windows XP by using indexing to speed up...
In the first few months, the cost of helpdesk support will go up despite the fact that Microsoft says the graphical interface will help drive down calls. And despite Redmond's claims that Office 2007 will have improved graphical interfaces, the...
For organisations running Windows 2000 there "definitely are real reasons" that they need to move to Vista, he said - but organisation on Windows XP are likely to roll out the new operating system on new machines and leave older machines running...
Although it hasn't said much about its plans for a Vista-based successor to its Windows XP-based embedded operating system, Microsoft is already working on one. Unlike the 2009 release of Windows Embedded, the Quebec product will make use of a...