Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (SP2) is an update to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that supports new kinds of hardware and emerging hardware standards, and includes all updates delivered since SP1. SP2 simplifies...

Just a heads up to prepare for Windows Vista  and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2. It will be available in the coming weeks on the Download Center (DLC) and also through Windows Update and WSUS. On April 28th, we announced the Release to...

How long does Microsoft plan to keep selling copies of its Windows Vista operating system after the upcoming launch of Windows 7? The company isn't saying. With previous versions of Windows, Microsoft used a transition period when old and new versions of...

Last week we announced the Release Candidate (RC) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2. We initially made it available for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Today, we’re making it available to anyone interested in testing SP2 for Windows...

Microsoft has released a reliability update for Vista SP1 that fixes several bugs in the OS update, including one that threw off errors when users tried to run large applications, such as Excel 2007 and Windows Media Player. The update, which Microsoft...

Creating custom certificate request in Windows Vista. When requesting certificates from a Windows 2000/2003 Enterprise Certification Authority, we will use one of the built-in certificate templates. Certificate Templates are used to tell the CA what...

A new vulnerability has been discovered in Apple's Quicktime multimedia player. The company has yet to provide exact information on the flaw, but it is known that Windows XP and Windows Vista are affected - and potentially other versions and systems as...

Power Downloader spends a lot of his time looking at ways to improve Windows Vista. He still doesn't use it for his primary computer, but there are some cases where it's clearly better than Windows XP. One of them, however, is not the Start menu, which...

Experts agree that Microsoft's Windows Vista is relatively well-protected, but its security features — such as User Account Control (UAC) — have been highlighted by security experts as one reason why the operating system is far less popular than its...

A Microsoft posting attempted to explain the most 'misunderstood' features of Vista: UAC, Image Management, Display Driver Model, Windows Search, and 64-bit architecture. In its continued attempt to convince business customers to adopt Vista, Microsoft...

Around 70 percent of Windows Vista on home systems are infected with malware, according to PC Tools, which blames Vista's UAC security feature for the high count — but Microsoft says it's user complacency that caused such a high rate of...

Depending on how you spin this information, it’s either good news or bad. A study by a decidedly partial observer, security vendor PC Tools Software, showed that Windows Vista, while much improved over Windows XP, is still far too vulnerable. Not that...

'Open Internet Explorer, Show Numbers, 23, OK, Speech Recognition, Show Numbers, 51, OK'. The actual numbers may vary but if you say that to a trained Vista PC you should see an interesting Wikipedia article on how computers have learned to understand...