The version of Vista I was testing was given to me about a week before the official Beta 2 release announced Tuesday in Seattle at WinHEC, Microsoft's conference for Windows hardware engineering.

After playing around with my newly-installed copy of Windows Vista Beta 2 for a couple of hours, the thought that kept popping up in my head over . Skip to Main Content.

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 ...

Extreme Tech loaded up Windows Vista Beta 2 and 14 of the latest games to see how well they played under the operating system, if at all. It's well-known that F.E.A.R. is a real system hog. Sure ...

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 ...

Windows Vista beta 2 shows a more refined user interface than previous builds. According to Microsoft’s director of Windows product management, Barry Goffe, Vista’s new “image-based setup is ...

In fact, I just reloaded Windows Vista beta 2 (release 5384.4) on a partition within my Acer TravelMate 8200 and didn't experience a single glitch.

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In about two weeks, Beta 2 of Windows Vista will be officially released to the public. And when it does, Microsoft will officially enter uncharted territory. I expect that Beta 2 will be reviewed ...

Everyone's probably aware that instead of being a separate product like Windows Media Center Edition 2005 (WMCE 2005) was to Windows XP, Windows Media ...