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, ...

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant announced on Wednesday the availability of the first official beta of its newly named Windows Vista, formerly code-named Longhorn. At the recent TechEd 2005, ...

Microsoft has released a new version of its Windows Vista beta code that sheds some light on how the software giant plans to improve networking and PC manageability in this next major release of the ...

As I post this piece, Microsoft is revealing the official existence of Windows Vista™ SP1, the SP1 beta , and the timeframe for testing and availability. Microsoft will release the beta of Windows ...

The Redmondians at Microsoft have finally opened the sluicegates on Beta 2 of their oft-delayed Windows Vista operating system, and your intrepid reporting team at Gizmodo jumped all over it, trying ...

Computerworld obtained a recent interim build of Windows Vista, Build 5472, that shows Microsoft is making progress in the areas of performance and installation time, has refined the User Account ...

Microsoft has started dispatching the first major wave of invites for the Vista Service Pack 2 beta. Like SP1, so far it doesn’t appear to add any major new features, though it rolls up some formerly ...

Microsoft Corp. tried to combat two of its most nagging problems -- security woes and product delays -- as it issued preliminary versions of two of its most widely used programs yesterday. The beta ...

Beta testers and others close to Microsoft believe that the first Vista service pack will hit beta this week with the full version to be released in November Microsoft could pull the trigger on ...

Microsoft's Enterprise Desktop Virtualization beta lets users run legacy apps from Windows XP and Windows 2000 on Windows Vista; the final release is expected later this year Microsoft has released ...

I'm running the windows Vista Beta, with a 3D Club Nvidia Geforce FX5200 64-bit 128MB (I know it's sort of crappy, but I don't game so it's okay, performance-wise) and a Samsung Syncmaster 205BW ...

Microsoft's Brad Goldberg, General Manager for the Windows client, noted that what's new in Windows Vista Beta 1 over previous pre-release editions is largely focused on IT functionality, including ...