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, ...

Jim Allchin emerged on stage from behind the black curtain carrying a large cardboard box Monday. The co-president of Microsoft's platforms and services division was the last speaker Monday at a ...

After four long years of talking the talk, Microsoft on Wednesday gave the outside world its first official look at its next generation operating system, shipping Beta 1 Release of the recently ...

The Vista beta 2 (see review) and Longhorn beta 2 are available to developers and IT professionals with TechNet subscriptions and to members of the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and TechBeta ...

Back in April, news reports stated that Microsoft planned to turn off half the firewall in Vista, disabling the outbound filtering capabilities by default -- making its defense identical to that of ...