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Trauma-inducing startup sound finally axed Great news! Microsoft has finally squashed a Windows 11 Insider bug. No, it still ...
As well as fixing the sound bug, the latest update changed a bug that would stop audio playing for a few moments after ...
TL;DR: A Windows Vista-inspired theme for Windows 11 has been facilitated via Windhawk, which offers a library of mods that can be used to customize Microsoft's OS. Be warned: the setup is fiddly ...
Windows Vista officially launched on Jan. 30, 2007, and subsequently became one of the most heavily criticized Microsoft products ever released. Thanks to the recent release of the acclaimed and ...
Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista recorded about half as many vulnerabilities in its first full year of availability as Windows XP did in its opening 12 months, company security executives said ...
A former Microsoft product manager says there are some parallels between the conditions surrounding this week's unveiling of Windows Phone 7 and those that prevailed during the Windows Vista launch.
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. will delay the consumer release of its new Windows operating system until January 2007, missing the holiday sales season and throwing some PC makers and retailers ...
Microsoft is about to end blue screen of death errors forever — by getting rid of the traditional blue screen. Instead, if ...
Engadget’s Devindra Hardawar comes the closest in saying “Apple’s Liquid Glass is Windows Vista done well” but admits “I ...
Microsoft has a reputation for shipping alternating bad than good operating systems, and Vista’s position between Windows XP and Windows 7 just perpetuated that.
Microsoft won’t repeat this mistake with Vista, Sinofsky said, and because the OS kernel — or its underlying code base — is the same as the one in Vista and Windows Server 2008, all of the ...
Microsoft also acknowledged that it is demanding much from users by asking them to restore Vista before upgrading to the Windows 7 release candidate. “We know that means reinstalling ...