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

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

Engadget’s Devindra Hardawar comes the closest in saying “Apple’s Liquid Glass is Windows Vista done well” but admits “I ...

SEATTLE -- Microsoft said Thursday that prices for the Windows 7 computer operating system are largely in line with those for Vista, and that people who buy PCs before the new system goes on sale ...

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 ...

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 also acknowledged that it is demanding much from users by asking them to restore Vista before upgrading to the Windows 7 release candidate. “We know that means reinstalling ...