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 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 ...

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 ...

On Sept. 1, Microsoft began rolling out Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1), raising hopes that all of the major issues have been resolved in the months since the beta 2 version. And it appears those ...

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 ...

Stymied by a lack of user interest in Microsoft Vista, many North American developers are still not targeting the new operating system when writing new applications, according to a survey released ...