During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Microsoft agreed Tuesday to make changes to the desktop ...

A year ago, when I turned on my Vista machine for the first time, it didn’t take long to realize that unless I mastered keyboard and desktop shortcuts I would be wasting a lot of computing time ...

Microsoft will tweak Windows Vista to enable the easy use of other vendors’ desktop search applications, a response to a complaint by search giant Google. News of the agreement was included in an U.S.

January 9, 2007 Bill Gates yesterday showcased OQO’s next generation ultra-mobile PC, the model 02, in his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Weighing a mere one pound and ...

As most Windows watchers know by now, Windows 7 has some cool interface tweaks, starting with large, eye-pleasing program icons that take up residence in the taskbar. Of course, this is little more ...

This article is excerpted from The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Windows Vista, with permission of Wiley Publishing Inc., all rights reserved. As one of the main ...

Windows 8 has achieved a 3.17 percent share of desktop operating systems, putting it behind Windows Vista, Microsoft's most disliked OS — until now perhaps. The global figures, from Net Applications, ...

Microsoft Corp. will make changes to the program that helps Windows Vista users search their hard drives, in response to antitrust complaints from Google Inc., according to a U.S. Justice Department ...

One of Windows Vista’s most intriguing new features has yet to fulfill its promise, as Microsoft Corp. wrestles with issues of hardware support and developer scarcity. Windows SideShow was introduced ...

Microsoft agreed Tuesday to make changes to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista in an effort to assuage Google and head off a further antitrust battle with U.S. regulators. In a filing made ...