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Microsoft Ending Vista Family Discount
News The company had said it would re-evaluate the "Windows Vista Family Discount" after 30 June. In a posting on the Windows Vista Team Blog, Microsoft product manager Nick White said the program would "sunset" as of 11.59pm PDT on 30 June.
[June 29, 2007, 9:23]
Ballmer: Microsoft May Keep XP If Users Demand It
News Ballmer said most retailers sold computers with Vista, the latest version of the Windows operating system, and most consumers were choosing to buy Vista. Vista requires high-speed CPUs installed only in newer machines.
[April 25, 2008, 8:18]
Microsoft Beats Earnings Forecast
News The outlook is affected by the fact that Microsoft expects to defer $1.5bn in revenue to account for a coupon programme in which buyers of Office and Windows this holiday season will be able to upgrade to Office 2007 and Windows Vista when those...
[October 30, 2006, 11:48]
PC Makers Find Ways To Extend XP's Life
News Taking advantage of the "downgrade rights" offered as part of the Windows Vista licence agreement, HP and Dell both plan to offer machines loaded with XP well beyond the 30 June deadline, imposed by Microsoft in a bid to get manufacturers and...
[April 28, 2008, 14:04]
Microsoft Offers Vista Licence Discount
News The programme is being offered only in the US and Canada and only from Vista's 30 January mainstream launch through to 30 June. Microsoft wants to get your whole house running Windows Vista. In what is being billed as a limited time offer...
[January 18, 2007, 7:33]
Microsoft Allows XP To Stay A Little Longer
News The move indicates the continued demand for the older operating system, some nine months after Windows Vista hit store shelves. In recent weeks, several PC makers launched programs that allow new PC buyers to more easily "downgrade" their Vista...
[September 28, 2007, 8:07]
Vista May Require "unproven" Drive Technology
News A Microsoft document specifying requirements for flash storage led to speculation that hybrid storage would be mandatory for all Vista laptops, from June 2007, but this has been denied by Microsoft. Hybrid hard drives save power, as they use solid...
[June 16, 2006, 13:30]
Date Set For Office And Vista Business Launch
News Microsoft plans to mark the business launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 with an event in New York on 30 November. Both Vista and Office had been originally slated to arrive on store shelves and new PCs in time for this year's holiday season.
[November 2, 2006, 8:30]
Microsoft Makes Vista SP1 Release Candidate Public
News Microsoft has made the latest version of Vista's Service Pack 1 release candidate available for download to the general public, after initially restricting it to 15,000 beta testers when it debuted last week.
[January 14, 2008, 7:51]
Microsoft Cuts Vista Price To Drive Upgrades
News Microsoft has said it will continue to sell Windows XP until June 2008, delaying a scheduled transition to Vista. Microsoft said on Thursday that it plans to cut prices of its Windows Vista operating system sold at retail outlets in a move aimed at...
[February 29, 2008, 7:19]
Microsoft Boasts Strong Fourth Quarter And Year
News Colleen Healy, Microsoft's general manager of investor relations, said on Thursday that Windows Vista, released at the beginning of the year, was off to a strong start as consumers buy new PCs and corporate customers upgrade.
[July 20, 2007, 8:45]
Microsoft Scrambles To End XP Support Panic
News Vista, the long-delayed next update of Windows, is expected to arrive by the end of the year. A new Windows version was expected in 2004, but the work on Vista, then known by its Longhorn codename, was bogged down by delays.
[January 13, 2006, 7:55]
Microsoft Earnings Slip Below Targets
News But it did say that earnings would come in lower, as it invests in its services push, as well as in the launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007. In addition to continued investment in services, Healy said that Microsoft plans to spend money to...
[April 28, 2006, 9:35]
Photos: Steve Jobs At Apple WWDC
News Jobs joked about the various versions of Windows Vista, noting that Apple will ship a basic, ultimate, business and other versions for $129 (£65). Jobs also showed off Safari 3.0, which runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista, as well as Mac OS X Tiger.
[June 12, 2007, 12:43]
Office 2007 Code Is Frozen
News Both Windows Vista and Office are slated for release to big businesses on 30 November. Microsoft has issued near-final test releases of Vista, but has not yet completed the final, or "gold," code for the new operating system.
[November 6, 2006, 16:35]
Oh Come On!
Talkback There is a massive ground swell of comment and opinion concerning the performance of Vista, the difficulties experienced in using Vista and the adequacy of the hardware it can run on, not to mention the significant incompatibilities with hardware...
[April 25, 2008, 13:42]
Parallels Releases Windows-for-Mac Update
News Other features include support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, support for Vista Boot Camp partitions and a new file explorer that enables people to view and change the contents of their Windows virtual hard drive without launching Windows.
[June 8, 2007, 9:41]
Microsoft Moves Beyond The Gates Era
News This means that Ray Ozzie, Steve Ballmer and Craig Mundie will all play a greater role in Microsoft's future -- battling Google, pushing Vista, and coping with lingering antitrust concerns and the spectre of open source.
[June 16, 2006, 16:20]
Half The UK To Be Surfing In A Year, Predicts AltaVista
News This is a far bigger announcement than Alta Vista's," he says. The prediction comes as the firm announced its unmetered service will go live from 30 June. Search engine turned ISP, AltaVista, predicts that half the UK's population will be online in...
[June 5, 2000, 15:50]
Gates To Step Down From Microsoft
News The announcement comes as his company battles pressures on all fronts: a sagging stock price, competition from Google and nagging delays in the Vista operating system. The road ahead for Microsoft is as bright as ever," Gates said in a press...
[June 16, 2006, 8:25]
