While beta 2 has made significant improvements, Vista is still a little rough around the edges when it comes to hardware support and driver compatibility. Those issues became evident as Test Center ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

In June, Microsoft released the first publicly available test version of the next generation of Windows to a less-than-enthusiastic reception. Actually, that's putting it mildly. Most testers were ...

Ars has a great in-depth piece on Vista Beta 2. We still haven’t got our copy—nor are we holding our breath—but it’s clearly an important look at an OS that, for better or worse, will soon be taking ...

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 ...