With Windows 7’s launch looming , a company executive yesterday denigrated its predecessor, calling Vista a “less good product.” The comment won’t surprise many analysts and users, who have condemned ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As Microsoft Corp's Windows 7 release approaches, early reviews are generally positive. But so were reviews for Windows Vista just before its launch. In the months leading up ...

Windows Vista has users buzzing about network performance improvements, but industry watchers caution that the new client operating system is no WAN-optimization cure-all. In certain scenarios, the ...

Vista completely revamped the old, resource-heavy Indexing Service that earlier versions of Windows used to locate files. The Vista indexing engine, which is still in use today, can scan file names, ...

That recommendation did not go unheeded as reviewers in the CRN Test Center set out to find the most efficient and easiest way to get Windows 7 deployed on XP clients. But after a series of tests on ...

With the news that Microsoft is recommending that some companies should abandon Vista deployment plans and move instead full-bore into Windows 7, Microsoft is beginning to close the chapter on Vista, ...

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Windows Vista Ultimate had a feature called DreamScene that let you set videos as your desktop background. Almost 15 years later, it looks like video wallpapers are making a return on Windows 11.