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Brad Brooks, Microsoft's VP of Windows Vista consumer marketing, says he wants to tell the "true Windows Vista story." Microsoft is making quite an investment to do so, but will it work?Read More...

Bill Veghte, Microsoft's senior vice president of Online Services & Windows Business Group, has taken the time to talk a little about Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Ars takes the time to summarize the key facts Veghte mentions.Read More...

Microsoft has filed both an appeal and a motion to stay in response to a court decision in late February that allowed the "Vista Capable" lawsuit to move forward. Redmond is fighting that decision on two fronts, and has asked an appeals court to review the district court's decision while simultaneously requesting a stay in the case until the appeals court rules on the company's petition.Read More...

Intel has reportedly decided to skip Windows Vista, and let XP remain on the company's 80,000 workstations. This is the first time Intel has bypassed a major Windows OS.

We were the first to announce that Microsoft would be releasing Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing on February 4, 2008; and now we will be the first to announce Microsoft's confirmed schedule for the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to the world. Here's how it's going to work... As we mentioned in our February 4 update, release to manufacturing (RTM) means exactly that - Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is final and is now released for manufacturing, and to the OEMs for integration with their systems. Public upgrades would come later. In April, as it turns out.

Microsoft's appeal to the US Federal Appeals Court for the 9th Circuit in the Vista Capable lawsuit has been denied. The court's decision not to even hear the appeal sends Microsoft back to Judge Pechman's court and green-lights the continuation of discovery.Read More...

Three individuals have decided to climb Mount Everest to increase awareness of Dell and Microsoft's PRODUCT(RED) offers.Read More...

Microsoft has announced a new site for verifying that everything is working smoothly with Vista: the Windows Vista Compatibility Center. The company has also announced free technical support for businesses purchasing Vista Business or Vista Ultimate between July 1 and September 30, 2008.Read More...

Microsoft has released Windows SteadyState 2.5, successor to the Shared Computer Toolkit, for download. The software solution now supports Windows Vista in addition to Windows XP.Read More...