There are two main types of Windows users in the world. Which kind are you: Windows XP or Windows Vista? The recent news that testers at Devil Mountain Software found Microsoft’s beta of Windows XP ...

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this feeling, ...

Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 show their multiprocessing mettle in our dual-core and quad-core performance tests They say you can never be too young, or too rich. Or too handsome or too ...

As you read this, Microsoft is getting set to deliver the final bits of what has become an increasingly controversial patch cycle. Windows Vista Service Pack 1, which went “gold” a few weeks back, was ...

On small office and home office networks, Windows XP and Windows Vista cooperate about as well as cats and dogs. But you can teach them to get along. When you combine Windows XP and Windows Vista PCs ...

A Microsoft security executive released data Thursday showing that, six months after shipping Windows Vista, his company has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows ...

Software counterfeiters pass on Windows Vista and instead prefer to pirate Windows XP, a Microsoft Corp. attorney said today, outlining a practice that tracks with the leanings of many of the ...

Do you have a favorite Windows? It’s not something most folks think about unless you’ve experienced the rollercoaster Microsoft has put many PC fans through over the years. There’s a lot of nostalgia ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...

Microsoft downplays the importance of first Windows Vista service pack, urging users to adopt the new operating system now, not later. As CNET's former resident security expert, Robert Vamosi has been ...