Microsoft engages in an extended public mea culpa about Vista, admitting the key reasons why the OS failed among business customers About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of ...

Microsoft on Wednesday gave developers access to a key piece of Windows Vista, months ahead of the operating system's release. The company posted near-final versions of two software development ...

Allchin, who is retiring after Vista ships, said the operating system remains on schedule to ship to businesses this year, and to consumers in January. Quoting industry analysts, the co-president of ...

Longhorn Server and Vista are of the same ilk. Over 70% of the code in the two products is shared; in fact, Vista and Longhorn Server were being developed together for much of the Vista development ...

If you’re interested in the history of Windows, you probably know a bit about “Longhorn,” Microsoft’s internal codename for the OS update that would eventually become Windows Vista. Microsoft planned ...

Outgoing Windows development chief James Allchin says he was being “purposefully dramatic” in a three-year-old e-mail to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer that surfaced late last ...

Microsoft is accelerating the development of the next version of its Windows client operating system and plans to test a feature-complete version by early next year, a lead on the Windows Vista ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s platforms and ...

SANTA CLARA, CA – March 13, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) reported today that NVIDIA GPUs enabled users to get a sneak peek of the new Microsoft® Windows Vistaâ„¢ Aero interface during ...

Microsoft is positioning Windows 11 as a wholesale redesign of Windows itself, adding all sorts of flourishes and effects to the operating system. That puts some on edge, remembering the disaster of ...

In an open letter to developers posted on the Windows Vista Developer Center Web site, Jim Allchin, co-president of the platforms and services division at Microsoft, is looking to entice developers to ...

Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive editor and east coast bureau chief, serving as department editor for business technology and software covered by CNET ...