If you're a typical consumer, most likely you've been running Windows XP Home since the day you bought your computer from your favorite retailer (online or in-person ...

A group within Microsoft Corp. recommended in 2005 that the lowest-priced version of Windows Vista be released without the “Vista” name because of concerns over “user product expectations,” according ...

Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesn’t even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each ...

At the low end is the Windows Vista Basic edition, which doesn't include the entertainment or mobile features, nor does it contain the Aero graphics system. Designed for older hardware, Windows Vista ...

A white paper by Microsoft's internal Windows product marketing team recommended that the company avoid the "Windows Vista" name on the Home Basic version of the operating system, according to ...

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Windows Vista Basic is rock-bottom, offering the fewest features of any of the editions. Windows Vista Basic is designed for older systems and low-end new PCs, offering limited use of the other ...

Windows Vista is the first Microsoft operating system to scale the interface to the PC's graphics capability, and for those computers with the required adaptor, will display Aero, which includes ...

December 12, 2006 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Click to viewJust got back from a weekend visit to the Microsoft campus up in Redmond, Washington where I got ...

Trying to troubleshoot my mother's PC and frankly neither microsoft nor google are coming up with any solutions for me. When I try to boot her main logon account starts being asked for a password ...