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, ...

While beta 2 has made significant improvements, Vista is still a little rough around the edges when it comes to hardware support and driver compatibility. Those issues became evident as Test Center ...

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant announced on Wednesday the availability of the first official beta of its newly named Windows Vista, formerly code-named Longhorn. At the recent TechEd 2005, ...

Microsoft has released a new version of its Windows Vista beta code that sheds some light on how the software giant plans to improve networking and PC manageability in this next major release of the ...

Microsoft Corp. today released the beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to subscribers of its developer services and said it would open the preview to the general public on Thursday. In a pair of ...

Over at Macworld UK, someone seems to have managed to get their hands on a copy of Windows Vista Beta 1, and has commented on its new features. Macheads seem to love looking at new versions of Windows ...

The Redmondians at Microsoft have finally opened the sluicegates on Beta 2 of their oft-delayed Windows Vista operating system, and your intrepid reporting team at Gizmodo jumped all over it, trying ...

As I post this piece, Microsoft is revealing the official existence of Windows Vista™ SP1, the SP1 beta , and the timeframe for testing and availability. Microsoft will release the beta of Windows ...

Microsoft Corp. tried to combat two of its most nagging problems -- security woes and product delays -- as it issued preliminary versions of two of its most widely used programs yesterday. The beta ...

Beta testers and others close to Microsoft believe that the first Vista service pack will hit beta this week with the full version to be released in November Microsoft could pull the trigger on ...

I'm running the windows Vista Beta, with a 3D Club Nvidia Geforce FX5200 64-bit 128MB (I know it's sort of crappy, but I don't game so it's okay, performance-wise) and a Samsung Syncmaster 205BW ...

After four long years of talking the talk, Microsoft on Wednesday gave the outside world its first official look at its next generation operating system, shipping Beta 1 Release of the recently ...