Update: For more on Vista SP2 Beta, see Vista SP2 Beta: More Efficient, But Not By Much. This morning I installed Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta onto an HP notebook I am using for my testing. On ...

Microsoft last month made Windows Vista Beta 2 publicly available for download or delivery on DVD via its Windows Vista Consumer Preview Program (CPP). The CPP closed to new registrations on June 30, ...

Microsoft last month made Windows Vista Beta 2 publicly available for download or delivery on DVD via its Windows Vista Consumer Preview Program (CPP). The CPP closed to new registrations on June 30, ...

When a Vista configuration bogs down, the simplest approach is often to reset the OS via a clean installation; if your data is fully backed up and/or stored in the cloud, the reinstallation is a ...

I've been reading the breathless reports from other websites this week about the "Vista upgrade loophole." Most of it is typical echo-chamber stuff, and most of the reports I've read so far have ...

Windows Vista is the new operating system from Microsoft that everyone has been talking about for quite a few years now, even as far back as 2001, when plans were first started for the then named ...

I love Microsoft. We had just started to resign ourselves to the fact that we were going to need Windows XP on our hard drive if we ever had to reinstall our upgrade version of Vista. Then they came ...

This is one for all of you readers who've had trouble installing Windows Vista. Don't feel bad. Even some Microsoft developers -- who have the Vista team on premise -- can't manage to upgrade to Vista ...

Whenever you're upgrading your operating system, it's always a good idea to back everything up and perform a "clean install." This is the OS equivalent of a fresh canvas – it almost always seems to ...