Microsoft engages in an extended public mea culpa about Vista, admitting the key reasons why the OS failed among business customers About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged yesterday during testimony before Congress. "Working in partnership with ...

For now, documenting all the hard work that went into the development of Windows 7 ahead of its official Oct. 22 release date will have to do. Microsoft and Intel talked Tuesday of four key areas ...

Last week, Microsoft completed the three-year-plus development of Windows 7, its latest flagship operating system. It's the product the company hopes will wash away the stigma of Windows Vista. The ...

Although its name suggests perhaps even grander capabilities, Windows enthusiasts are excited over the discovery of a hidden “GodMode” feature that lets users access all of the operating system’s ...

Steven Sinofsky, the no-nonsense Microsoft executive credited with bringing new discipline to Windows engineering, [is] the company’s newest divisional president. … The promotion signals the company’s ...

In context: Windows 7 as a proper computing platform has long been dead, but leakers are still playing with the corpse of one of Microsoft most successful software products. A new preview build of the ...