Windows 11 beta builds have a bug that swaps the startup sound with Vista's. Brandon LeBlanc confirmed the bug and clarified it wasn't intentional. The cause of the swap remains unknown, but it may ...

TL;DR: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5651 introduces AI-powered Copilot+ in Settings for Snapdragon PCs, enhancing user support. It also revives a larger taskbar clock with seconds and ...

TL;DR: A Windows Vista-inspired theme for Windows 11 has been facilitated via Windhawk, which offers a library of mods that can be used to customize Microsoft's OS. Be warned: the setup is fiddly, ...

Back in the day, your operating system was a big deal. It was who you were. Mac vs. Windows was like Catholic vs. Protestant, or Republican vs. Democrat, and about as rational. Now it’s somewhere down ...

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 ...

Microsoft last month made Windows Vista Beta 2 publicly available for download or delivery on DVD via its Windows Vista Consumer Preview Program (CPP). The CPP closed to new registrations on June 30, ...

An iconic part of Windows has been removed from Windows 11. Earlier this summer, a peculiar bug caused the Windows Vista boot chime to play when starting Windows 11. The bug only appeared for Windows ...

A new Microsoft Windows operating system is always big news, especially for the federal government, which overwhelmingly relies on Windows of one stripe or another to run just about everything. The ...

In Windows Vista, several Control Panels, such as Windows Defender, Performance, and Parental Controls, are more like programs than the basic settings managers that Microsoft has traditionally ...

He is referring to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, which was widely criticized when it launched in 2007 due to software bugs, performance issues, frequent warning dialogs, polarizing ...

In a Monday blog post, Scott Barnes, a former Microsoft product manager for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight, and now a user experience specialist with Melbourne, Australia-based ...

At the end of 2006, Microsoft finished developing the operating system and rolled out Vista to the general public on Jan. 30, 2007. Microsoft's slogan for Windows Vista was "The wow starts now," and ...