Windows 11 no longer plays the Vista startup sound. Microsoft says it was just a bug, but the timing with Apple’s new UI says ...

If you are using Microsoft’s Windows Vista Home Premium, there are chances, you would like to upgrade to Windows 7. Since, Windows Vista basic or home premium cannot be upgraded to profession of ...

Windows 7 will also be able to run on netbooks, he said. “Doing a great job in Windows 7 around that class of devices is important and we’re committed to providing support for them,” Veghte ...

The largest difference was 4 points–102 for Vista versus 106 for Windows 7 on an HP Pavillion a6710t desktop. Our other two test machines showed similarly minor performance improvements: A ...

Windows 7 is following perfectly in the footsteps of those two releases. I went and charted the history of Microsoft's Windows releases from 1990 (Windows 3.0) forward, inserting Windows 7 into ...

Windows 7 is out, says David Pogue in The New York Times, “and if the programmers at Microsoft have any strength left at all, they are high-fiving. Their three-year Windows Vista nightmare is ...

Windows 7 reminds us a lot of Windows XP in terms of what was anticipated compared to what was/is being delivered. We won't go so far as to say that Vista is the ME of the modern day, but it's close.

He moved very few of them to Vista, opting to wait for Windows 7, which he is testing. There’s certainly no love lost between Hultquist and Microsoft software.

However, Windows 7 superseded Vista and was a dramatic improvement. See Windows ME and Windows 7. New User Interface Many Vista elements changed from XP including terminology, menus and dialog boxes.

In case you missed it, Windows 7 is crushing the PC market. In less than a full year it has overtaken Windows Vista in total market share. The two operating systems each have about 14.4%, with ...

But Vista was a necessary release: it blazed a trail that made Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 all possible. It should be remembered not as a mistake, but as an essential, if ...

Consumers running any edition of Windows 7 or Vista now have a few more years of support to look forward to. Microsoft recently tacked on five additional years in the form of Extended support for ...