During the fall of 2006 as we were completing the final release of Windows Vista, I was getting a lot of questions about how Windows Vista compared to the original vision of Windows Longhorn. I had someone on my team go back and look at the feature set

One of the interesting things about the release of a major version upgrade like Windows Vista is that there are so many new features, that it might take you a while to discover all of the deep capabilities built into the product. Some features you will

This entry updated at 8:49 PST on Tuesday 19 December 2006. On November 30, Sophos issued its monthly report on the top ten threats reported to them in November of 2006. As a part of this, Sophos also studied Windows Vista's vulnerability to these malware

As part of one of Microsoft's on-going lawsuits, a piece of email that I sent to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates recently became public. It was a rant encouraging a change to the way we were building Windows at the time. In the email, I made a comment for

A few weeks ago I wrote about the new sounds of Windows Vista and I made the point that sound is an important component of your experience using a Windows PC. As important as the new sounds are as an interface to the Windows UI, of equal importance is

If there is one thing that can really help applications on Windows Vista run better, it's memory. When comparing the performance of Windows XP and Windows Vista on a PC with 1 GB of main memory, Windows Vista is generally comparable to Windows XP or faster.

One of the things that I have been focused on for many years is the ability to update a Windows PC with the latest software to make the system run great and help keep it secure. While automation has really always been my core dream, we had to start someplace,