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 ...

Of key concern to solution providers is whether businesses large or small are ready to flip the switch on purchasing new wide-screen displays. Because it has been about five years since Microsoft last ...

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 ...

Everyone knows what the Microsoft "Blue Screen of Death" means, but how about the Vista "Black Screen of Darkness?" In an email titled: "Pirated Vista — A darkness descends!", Microsoft makes it quite ...

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled several new consumer electronics products, including a touch-screen desktop PC running on Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system. The new products were introduced ...

Microsoft’s most recent release of security patches is causing some computers to … display a, er, black screen of death. … [The] latest patches [are] causing havoc for some Windows fans. … Redmond ...