Trauma-inducing startup sound finally axed Great news! Microsoft has finally squashed a Windows 11 Insider bug. No, it still ...

The Vista boot-up sound is the same jingle played on boot-up of Windows 7, but Microsoft specifically cites it as the Windows ...

Microsoft has mistakenly replaced its Windows 11 boot sound with the chime from Vista. It’s a bug that will be fixed in the latest preview builds of the OS.

Based upon Windows NT, the Windows 7 operating system significantly boosted performance in terms of boot and shutdown times, while minimizing the constant interruptions that Vista’s UACs introduced.

With the introduction of Windows Vista came a new boot loader and a new tool to edit the file as well call BCD edit. Well BCD edit is a command line tool and can be a bit of a headache to manipulate.

Microsoft had indicated previously that one of its design goals for Windows 7 is to give it the same system requirements as for Vista. When Vista shipped it was seen as too resource hungry for the ...

Microsoft may call the newest version of its operating system Windows 7, but you may want to think of it as Windows 6.5. In overall look and feel, it mimics Vista, although there are enough ...

Indeed, Microsoft had to extend the life of Windows XP for small netbook computers because system makers said Vista would barely run on those devices at all. Microsoft has now learned its lesson ...

A former Microsoft product manager says there are some parallels between the conditions surrounding this week's unveiling of Windows Phone 7 and those that prevailed during the Windows Vista launch.

Like Vista, Windows 7 will feature an Enterprise edition that is available only to customers with Software Assurance, the Microsoft program that gives large customers the rights to any updates to ...