In Windows Vista, users can have an extensive System Health Report generated for them in helping troubleshoot performance and reliability issues on their PC or to see how healthy their PC is in general. For the average user, this probably won't mean anything. But for me, I'm the type of user that really likes having the ability to create reports ...

Measuring the performance of an operating system is a tricky thing.  At the same time, it's the right and necessary thing to do, because performance is one of many criteria important to customers.  Part of the trick of measuring performance is to time testing execution with the product cycle such that the results are as meaningful as ...

Dwight Silverman, the tech reviewer at the Houston Chronicle, has written about the impact that the Aero theme has on battery life and performance (under the provocative title ''Vista, Aero, battery life . . . and Doom'' -- he's referring to the game Doom3, BTW).  It's a good post and I'd like to take a minute to expand on what Dwight has ...

Good news!  The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment v2.0 Beta Program is now open for registration!  Please join our beta program and test drive new features including OU-targeting, machine names import, localized UI/readiness reports and more.  Visit the Microsoft Connect site to join: ...

Back from an all-too-short holiday with a quick note on a new blog started by the Windows Client and Server performance teams: the Windows Performance Blog. According to Matt Ayers, a Program Manager from the Client Performance Team and the inaugural contributor to the new blog, you can expect the team to address performance-enhancing features ...