A white paper by Microsoft's internal Windows product marketing team recommended that the company avoid the "Windows Vista" name on the Home Basic version of the operating system, according to ...

If you’re used to home networking using Windows XP-based computers, then you’re probably familiar with basic tasks such as connecting the PCs to the network and configuring file sharing. If you’re ...

A group within Microsoft Corp. recommended in 2005 that the lowest-priced version of Windows Vista be released without the “Vista” name because of concerns over “user product expectations,” according ...

It’s been well over a year since Microsoft launched Vista, and it’s time for Microsoft to finally pull the plug on Vista Home Basic. Retailers hate it, users are annoyed and frustrated with it, and it ...

Acer is talking openly about what many OEMs are privately expressing frustration over: the weak value proposition offered by Windows Vista Home Basic.<BR><BR> Story.

2GB of RAM should be fine for Windows Vista. naturally it depends on your workload whether or not 2GB of RAM is enough, but the same could be said of Windows XP, Windows 7, or Linux as well.

In less than a year on the market, Windows 7 is now being used more than predecessor Windows Vista, according to market researcher Netmarketshare. For July, Windows 7 was used on 14.46 percent of ...

Good news: the next version of Microsoft’s Windows OS appears to be less of a resource hog than Windows Vista. Microsoft announced Wednesday that a beta version of Windows 7 will be available for the ...

Windows 7 is going into public beta, Microsoft head Steve Ballmer announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas late on Wednesday. The first beta version of the successor to Windows Vista is ...