Fellow ZDNet blogger Ed Bott has posted 30 screen shots from the new beta version of Windows Vista that Microsoft released yesterday. I've gone through all thirty screen shots and have found a few ...

For as long as I can remember, the architecture behind Microsoft's ActiveX software component technology (and its predecessors such as OLE and DDE) has been maligned as one of the key weaknesses in ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Adjusting the brightness of your display in Windows Vista will enable you to see the screen with less of a strain on your eyes, particularly in darker settings. Adjustment controls are typically found ...

Hewlett-Packard reached for the consumer market Monday with two new PCs that allow customers to control Microsoft’s Windows Vista OS with a touchscreen interface instead of a mouse. The TouchSmart ...

What if Microsoft waved a magic wand and everything people hated about Windows Vista went away? You might have an operating system that you liked–and that’s what Microsoft appears to be striving for ...