Now that I'm dual-booting Vista Beta 2 and XP on my PC, I thought I'd do some performance testing to see how the different Windows generations compare on the same hardware. First, startup.

Windows Vista, Microsoft's newest OS and arguably its largest project ever has finally hit Beta 2. Windows Vista is the latest and most complex operating system to emerge from Microsoft's Redmond ...

Companies can use the toolkit to verify an application's compliance against the Windows ... aren't in the beta yet, put in the following invitation code on Microsoft Connect: LOGO-RX8Y-64B9.

Today is part 2 of our Windows Vista journal. Following our introduction yesterday, we're now ready to dig deep into Vista Beta 2's GUI (Graphic User Interface) and gaming support. Any new OS ...

Microsoft originally planned to release Beta 2 of Windows Vista before the end of 2005, but Microsoft Corporate Vice President Amitabh Srivastava announced in November that it was pushing that ...

All in all, more evolutionary than revolurionary. Windows Media Center Preview in Vista Beta 2 [krunker via eHomeUpgrade] Windows Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily.

Yesterday, Windows Vista beta 2 (build 5384.4) was released to reviewers at the Vista Reviewer's preview gathering in Seattle Washington near Microsoft's corporate headquarters in Redmond.

If anything can be said about Windows Vista, it's that it's real pretty. I've been running the Beta Preview for several ... has been replaced by the Windows logo (but if you mouse over it, the ...