Windows Fiji Has RTM'd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
	Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing. The Redmond giant sent Windows Fiji RTM emails to the select pool of customers who helped nudge the product forward through development milestones. Fiji has been from the get go to the finish line a product developed under wraps at Microsoft, with little or no word of it released to the general public. Now, Windows Fiji is finalized and the gold bits ended ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 13:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Proves Vista Is Not a Failure with 180 Million Licenses Sold
	Windows Vista might not be the top seller that Microsoft had forecast before the operating system hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, but the latest Windows client is by no means a failure. Quite the opposite, in fact; according to the Redmond giant, Vista has sold over 180 million licenses in its first year and a half on the market. On July 17, 2008 Microsoft posted its financial results for the 2008 fiscal year ended Ju ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 10:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows 7 Will Trip Over Mac OS X Snow Leopard
	Windows 7 is bound to trip over Mac OS X Snow Leopard, even if just a little bit, at the rate that Apple is growing, making consistent inroads into the computer market. Mac OS X Leopard has already managed to take a consistent bite out of the traditional Windows territory, pushing Apple's slice of the operating system market close to 8%, according to data from Net Applications, approximately half of that of Windows Vista. OS X is no l ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft: Take Advantage of the Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack
	The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is designed to help customers get the most out of their Windows Vista clients, according to Microsoft's official description of the solution. Delivering a comprehensive package of technologies from virtualization to asset inventory service, but also including an advanced group ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Error Recipe: Vista SP1, USB Optical Disc Drive and Resume from Standby
	Windows Vista Service Pack 1, a USB optical disc drive and the process of resuming a computer from standby are the perfect recipe for a Stop error message, according to Microsoft. Essentially, a computer running Vista SP1, or even the plain vanilla version of the operating system that is resuming from Standby while connected to a USB optical disc drive will produce either the STOP: 0x000000E4 (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4 ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 08:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Vista SP1 Volume Licensing
	Volume Licensing is just one of the modalities to acquire Microsoft software, but perhaps, as customers are concerned, it is also the most appealing because of the cost savings it implies. In contrast to the retail copies of Windows Vista, the main benefit of the Volume Licenses is that it takes the cost of the packaging and of the media out of the price equation of the product. And this, of course, is not valid just for Vista, now[ADMARK= ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 09:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft: Windows 7, Perfect Target for State-of-the-Art Hacking Tools
	Believe it or not, but Microsoft is setting up Windows 7 as the perfect target for what the company referred to as state-of-the-art hacking tools, some of them not even created yet. Windows 7 is heading straight for a feast of attacks, and Windows 7 Server will be joining it at sharing the menu. Sporting new bulletproofed cores, the successors of Windows Vista and respectively Windows Server 2008 are being designed to raise the bar in term ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 04:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista and Office 2007 Are Joined at the Hip, but They Can Be Decoupled
	The joint releases of Windows Vista and the Office 2007 System in November 2006 and January 2007, designed to be a repeat of Windows 95 and Office 95, have had an inherent result on consumer perception. The simultaneous release of the latest versions of Microsoft's flagship products indicated that the Redmond company had joined Windows Vista and Office 2007 at the hip. And, in fact, Microsoft has been little shy about marketing the in ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 08:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista SP1 Compatibility Center Debuts
	Looking for software and hardware products fully compatible with Microsoft's latest Windows operating system? Well, look no more, as the Redmond company has unveiled the ultimate resource designed to parade the software and the hardware solutions tailored to Windows Vista, now with Service Pack 1. Set up to offer consumers extensive information as to what products are tailored to Vista, the ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 04:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Vista SP1, the Truth and Nothing but the Truth
	Can users handle the truth about Windows Vista? Now with Service Pack 1 in its arsenal, Microsoft is ready to prove that they can. Or, at least, its own version of the Vista SP1 truth. Microsoft is on a mission. A mission to salvage what little is left of the latest Windows client, although admission of such a scenario will never come from the company. There are, of course, inherent questions as to why the software giant is reacting so lat ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2008, 05:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Vista Is Superior to Leopard, XP, Linux, and All of Open Source
	There's Windows Vista, and there's the rest. Microsoft's perspective was eloquently made public at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston, Texas, on July 10, 2008. The Redmond company claims nothing less than that Windows Vista is superior to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, to all distributions of Linux, and to the entire environment of open source solutions, in terms of security. Micro ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 09:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista Security Policy Gets Its Own Website
	Microsoft is not yet done building Windows Vista's pedestal now that SP1 is out and about, with new efforts gearing towards rising the latest Windows client's monument on what's left of Windows XP SP3 after the discontinued availability through the retail and OEM channels. In this regard, a small aspect wich contributed to what little success Vista has had so far is getting its own corner of the online world. Microsoft has o ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Introducing the Windows Vista Compatibility Center
	At the Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 on July 8, in Huston, Texas, Brad Brooks, corporate vice president, Windows Consumer Product Marketing, announced that Microsoft was going to go live with the Windows Vista Compatibility Center. It is clear that the Redmond company is fighting the bad aura that is clinchin ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 12:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Saying “Yes” to Vista SP1
	Without a doubt, Windows Vista, even after Service Pack 1, is at the center of a consistent volume of "Pass" decisions, especially in the corporate environment. Judging by the slow pace of the operating system, which barely crawled over 160 million sold licenses worldwide at the end of June 2008, customers are not exactly crowding to buy the operating system. Considering XP's market share still at over 70% and the high profi ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 09:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Download Windows Media Center Gadgets for Windows SideShow
	Microsoft has extended the control of Windows Media Center in Windows Vista beyond the limits of the operating system to devices adjacent to the platform via Windows SideShow. With the Windows SideShow technology, users are enabled to access information from their Vista machine on a variety of additional hardware from mobile phones to digital picture frames. But it also goes the other way around as the latest Windows Media Center ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista SP1 and Widows Server 2008 Virtualization Licensing
	Windows is still a long way away from shipping with virtualization as a default component of the operating system. However, Microsoft has made consistent advancing in terms of embracing virtualization with both its server and client operating systems. In the end, whether a copy of Windows runs on physical hardware or as a guest operating system inside a virtual machine taking advantage of emulated resources, its usage is still bound to the ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2008, 06:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista SP1's Network Map Plays Nice with XP SP3
	With Service Pack 1, Microsoft provided fixes for the vast majority of the issues that have now became associated by default with Windows Vista RTM. But softening the rough edges of Vista is not enough, as there are scenarios in which the problems reported by end users cannot be blamed specifically on the latest Windows client. Case in point: the failure of the Vista Network Map to identify correctly and display computers running ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2008, 05:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft: Will the Real Name of Windows 7 Please Stand Up
	Obviously, Windows 7 is not the label under which the next iteration of the Windows client will be made available on the market. The final product name under which the gold Windows 7 bits will be released is yet to be made public, that if Microsoft has even decided on it. However, the Redmond company is indeed looking for the next "XP" and "Vista" label to stick next to Windows and create a new brand. ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 13:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista Is a Small Step to 5,000 Gallons of Free Gas
	Believe it or not, but Windows Vista is one of the requirements, and a small step to winning 5,000 gallons of free gas from Microsoft. This provided that you are running a small business. The Redmond company has debuted a new initiative designed to help small businesses, Bump the Slump. The website and the adjacent project are desi ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 12:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Download 17 User Interface (UI) Language Packs for Windows Vista
	Microsoft is offering Windows Vista users no less than 17 User Interface (UI) Language packs designed for integration with the operating system. However, the company informed that only the 32-bit editions of the latest Windows client can have LIPs implemented. ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2008, 07:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista System Tools Survived into Windows 7 M1
	Microsoft already confirmed that Windows 7 will have Windows Vista as its foundation. Like it or not, Windows 7 will be nothing more than an evolution of the current Windows client. According to the little details the Redmond company did manage to make public, the Vista architecture will survive into the next generation of the Windows operating system, and one illustrative example in this context are the system tools. Of course that, at th ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2008, 14:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Get Ready for the Official Windows 7 Blog
	Get ready for a unique source of information focused exclusively on the next iteration of the Windows client. Microsoft might be mute on Windows 7 now, under the new transparency policy imposed by Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, but the situation will not last. The successor of Windows Vista is right on the verge of getting its own online outlet, namely the Windows 7 blog. It appears that ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2008, 11:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows XP SP3 - No Future
	With Windows XP but four days away from the June 30 end-of-sales date, various scenarios are depicting the operating system as already dead. But XP is far from being expired, and this is why Microsoft has not been shy about talking about the future of Windows Vista's successor, as irreverent as this might seem. But just because customers will no longer be able to buy standalone copies of the operating system, either shrink-wrapped or ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2008, 12:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Says Pass to Vista SP1, Onward to Windows 7
	Processor maker Intel is saying pass to Windows Vista, SP1 or no SP1, delivering a heavy blow to Microsoft. Service Pack 1 is a traditional milestone which catalyzes a boost in the adoption rate for Windows operating systems. And as far as Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is concerned, Microsoft is ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2008, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fiji vs. Windows Fiji
	The Fiji government is taking on Microsoft, and Windows Media Center is well at the center of the problem. Debuted into development back in 2007, following the launch of Windows Vista, and currently in private Beta testing, Windows Fiji is designed as the next step in the evolution of the Media Center default component of the latest Windows client. Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fiji’s interim Attorney-General revealed that Fiji’s Mission ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2008, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Performance and Reliability Update for Vista SP1 - Download Here
	A reliability and performance update is available for download for Windows Vista Service Pack 1. This specific release targets all Windows Vista editions, provided that they have the first service pack integrated. The update comes with the promise of improving the performan ... [read more >>]
	25 June 2008, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows 7 Will Not Inherit the Incompatibility Issues of Vista
	Microsoft is hard at work aiming to prevent the Windows 7 apple proverbially falling close to the Windows Vista tree. In fact, Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President, Online Services & Windows Business Group, promised that that incompatibility issues would not be among the legacy that Vista leaves for Windows 7. Otherwise, the next version of the Windows client will inherent the vast majority of the architecture of its predecessor, most im ... [read more >>]
	24 June 2008, 10:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows 7 M1 Build 6519 Keyboard Shortcuts
	Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6519 features the same keyboard shortcuts as Windows Vista. This aspect is understandable as the early development milestone of Windows 7 made available to Microsoft's closest partners at the end of 2007 is closer to Vista than to the final version of the next iteration of the Windows client. In M1 Build 6519, the user experience is in fact identical to that in Windows Vista. From Windows Aero to the Window ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 13:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fighting the Windows Vista SP1 Crusade
	Windows Vista is by no means a failure, nor is it a lost battle, as Microsoft is fighting the Service Pack 1 crusade opening new fronts against both itself and rival companies. Having RTM'd Vista SP1 on February 4, 2008, and then released it to the general public in March and April, the Redmond company has essentially breathed new life into its latest Windows client and it's willing to do everything it takes to convince end users ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 11:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft: Vista SP1 Brings the Performance Vista RTM Didn't
	Following the advent of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft geared up to dispel the negative aura which was orbiting around the RTM version of the operating system. As soon as the latest Windows client hit the shelves back in January 30, 2007, negative feedback started flowing, focused on hardware and software compatibility issues, the limitations introduced by the added security mitigations such as User Account Control and P ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 05:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows XP SP3 – And So It Ends
	It's the end of an era for Microsoft. Not the end of Windows XP, but the end of the XP era. In the context in which after June 30, 2009, Microsoft will no longer permit its retail partners and original equipment manufacturers to sell the predecess ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2008, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista SP1 Gadget Brings Mars Weather Updates via the Phoenix Lander
	Weather information on your Windows Vista SP1 desktop can now be an interplanetary experience with the help of the Windows Sidebar. While there are a luxuriant variety of weather gadgets for the Windows Sidebar in Vista, there is one that's out of this world, literally. The Phoenix Mars Weather Gadget will bring Vista users weather information from Mars. The gadget is an item of novelty rather than anything else, and certain ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2008, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Live OneCare 2.0 Available for Free
	Microsoft is indeed offering Windows Live OneCare 2.0 for free, but only the 90-day trial period version. However, the fully fledged security solution can be grabbed from ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2008, 04:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Windows Vista Wallpapers from Microsoft
	New Windows Vista wallpapers are available for download from Microsoft. The fresh Vistas are not a repeat of the excellent collection that shipped included by default in the RTM version of the latest Windows client, nor are they additional Extras for the Windows Vista Ultimate SKU. The images have been delivered via Windows Experience, and are offered courtesy of Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc. There is a new ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2008, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Download Free, Pre-Activated Copies of Vista
	Being the loyal adept of a business model based on proprietary software, a free operating system is not exactly something that Microsoft customers can expect from the company. But of course that there are always exceptions to confirm the rule. And the free copy of Windows Vista up for grabs via Microsoft Download is an illustrative example in this context. That's right, a completely free copy of the latest Windows client, time-bombed ... [read more >>]
	18 June 2008, 13:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista SP2 Will Resolve TCP/IP Registry Compatibility Service Issues in SP1
	Although Windows Vista SP1 was released to manufacturing just four months ago, at the start of February, becoming available for download on March 18, 2008, Microsoft is already giving a sneak peek at what the next service pack will feature. In this regard, hotfixes are always items integrated into the service packs for Microsoft products simply because they are not released via Windows Updates. The latest example in this context ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows 7 M1 Reduced Functionality Mode Just as Vista RTM
	Windows 7 Milestone 1 features Reduced Functionality Mode, just like Windows Vista RTM. With the advent of Service Pack 1 for its latest Windows client, Microsoft scraped the anti-piracy mitigation from the operating system, going back to the behavior of Windows XP when dealing with pirated, unactivated or expired copies of the platform. But if you thought that Vista SP1 was the end of Reduced Functionality Mode, think again. The kill swit ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 09:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

From Windows Aero to the Windows Vista Sound Schemes
	One aspect made clear by Microsoft from the get go is that, with Windows Vista, it had worked to achieve a complete user experience by bridging the graphical user interface with the sound schemes of the operating system. Steve Ball, Princ ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 07:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft's Dream Home, Only with Touch Computing and Vista Ultimate
	Windows Vista Ultimate and Surface computing are both at the heart of Microsoft's Innoventions Dream Home introduced at Disneyland in Anaheim. The attraction featured in Tomorrowland delivers a complex recipe of Microsoft technologies including its latest versions of the Windows home server and client operating systems, but also Surface. The Innoventions Dream Home is a collaboration between the Redmond company and HP, Life| ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Download Origami Experience 2.0 for Windows Vista
	Microsoft has made Origami Experience 2.0 available for download. A collection of programs designed to enhance the user experience of ultra-Mobile PCs, Origami Experience 2.0 is set up to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft's latest Windows operating system. In the Redmond company's vision, UMPCs upgraded to Windows Vista should also feature Origami Experience 2.0, as the project announced at the Consumer Electronics Sh ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft: Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidates Expire June 30, 2008
	The Release Candidate versions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 have only two more weeks to live. Microsoft warned users still running development milestones of the first service pack for Windows Vista that the testing releases would expire at the end of the month. June 30, 2008 is the last day in the life of Vista SP1 RC builds. Microsoft introduces kill switches into all its Alpha, Beta and RC builds, and Windows service packs m ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

14 Things that Microsoft Needs to Do with Windows 7
	Microsoft made no secret out of having, for some time now, been cooking the next iteration of Windows, a translucent development process with very little transparent areas including details such as multi-touch, support for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and the evolution of the Windows Vista kernel, graphics and audio subsystems. Pieces of the Windows 7 puzzle are indeed starting to come together, and a more consistent perspective will b ... [read more >>]
	14 June 2008, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista SP1 Installed System Memory (RAM)
	One of the aspects that Service Pack 1 changes for Windows Vista is the way that the operating system reports the amount of installed system memory. The way that Vista SP1 now deals with the physical RAM impacts both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions o ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2008, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Welcome to the Vista SP1 Experience
	Windows Vista Experience... Safe, easier, reliable and versatile. Microsoft is welcoming users to the Windows Vista experience, a website focused on Service Pack 1 for the latest version of the Windows client. Designed to share "real stories and real successes" with Vista at the core, t ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Migrating 10,000 Machines to Windows Vista SP1
	Just in case you have failed to tune in after Microsoft released Windows Vista SP1 to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and to the general public on March 18, the latest Windows client is now ready for adoption. Yes, indeed it took the Redmond company approximately a year and a half after the r ... [read more >>]
	09 June 2008, 07:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows 7 Is Just the Beginning for Microsoft
	As far as Microsoft is concerned, Windows 7 is just the beginning. Not a new beginning for Windows, mind you, but the debut of a revolution in human - computer interaction. At Tech Ed 2008, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates indicated that he is betting big on natural user interfaces. "Now one of the big changes coming that I think is most underestimated is the change in interaction," he stated. Not by coincidence, the Redmond company ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 10:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Missing Windows Vista Wallpapers, Better After SP1 than Never
	Microsoft managed to include a consistent collection of imagery into Windows Vista, but it failed to come even close to satisfying the entire spectrum of user preferences and, moreover, it went for quality over quantity. In this regard, the default Vistas which ship with the operating system, suffer only because of their low number. Well, users in search of similar photographic artwork for the Vista backgrounds around the word ca ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 09:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista SP1 Driver Incompatibility Issues Still Unresolved
	Four months since Windows Vista SP1 was released to manufacturing, the driver incompatibility issues affecting the implementation of the service pack are still unresolved. Vista SP1 RTM'd on February 4, 2008 along with Windows Server 2008. At that t ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows Vista SP1
	Ever had the feeling that Microsoft is scrambling to salvage what little it still can out of Windows Vista? While continuously claiming that its latest Windows client is not a failure, and pointing to the 140 million licenses sold as of March 2008, the Redmond company seems keen on demonstrating that it can pull the operating system out of the sinking sands of public opinion. In this regard, Service Pack 1 is indeed used as a floating devi ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2008, 12:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Vista Is Ready
	Microsoft released Windows Vista to corporate customers in November 2006 and to the general public in January 2007. But it wasn't until 2008 that Windows Vista was actually ready for businesses. It took Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President, Windows Product Managemen ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2008, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia