Microsoft last month made Windows Vista Beta 2 publicly available for download or delivery on DVD via its Windows Vista Consumer Preview Program (CPP). The CPP closed to new registrations on June 30, ...

While beta 2 has made significant improvements, Vista is still a little rough around the edges when it comes to hardware support and driver compatibility. Those issues became evident as Test Center ...

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant announced on Wednesday the availability of the first official beta of its newly named Windows Vista, formerly code-named Longhorn. At the recent TechEd 2005, ...

Microsoft has released a new version of its Windows Vista beta code that sheds some light on how the software giant plans to improve networking and PC manageability in this next major release of the ...

Microsoft Corp. has begun reminding millions of testers of Windows Vista’s beta and release candidate (RC) previews that their trial runs end on June 1. Cori Hartje, director of Microsoft’s antipiracy ...

Over at Macworld UK, someone seems to have managed to get their hands on a copy of Windows Vista Beta 1, and has commented on its new features. Macheads seem to love looking at new versions of Windows ...

Microsoft Wednesday will release the first beta of the next version of Windows, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. Microsoft Wednesday will release the first beta of the next ...

The Redmondians at Microsoft have finally opened the sluicegates on Beta 2 of their oft-delayed Windows Vista operating system, and your intrepid reporting team at Gizmodo jumped all over it, trying ...

Microsoft will release the next beta of Windows Vista in April, according to a popular blog that follows the company. In a blog posting on Tuesday, Stephen Bink (http ...

Beta testers and others close to Microsoft believe that the first Vista service pack will hit beta this week with the full version to be released in November Microsoft could pull the trigger on ...

Microsoft Corp. tried to combat two of its most nagging problems -- security woes and product delays -- as it issued preliminary versions of two of its most widely used programs yesterday. The beta ...

I'm running the windows Vista Beta, with a 3D Club Nvidia Geforce FX5200 64-bit 128MB (I know it's sort of crappy, but I don't game so it's okay, performance-wise) and a Samsung Syncmaster 205BW ...