At a recent Gartner conference featuring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, a woman interviewing Ballmer onstage put him on the defensive about the problems with Windows Vista, lamenting that she had to go ...

With Microsoft having released Windows Vista to manufacturing, the computing industry is now busy preparing for the first major Windows desktop operating system upgrade in more than five years. One of ...

All of this leaves computer sellers with a great deal of room for interpretation, and that’s never a good thing for computer buyers. The moral of the story is that if you’re looking for longevity in a ...

Hey readers, the Gadgetress is off this week, but not the PC Club. In her absence, check out all the fun stuff at the official Stump the PC Club page. QUESTION: I cannot transfer data from my old ...

One of the dreaded tasks of getting a new PC or laptop is updating the shiny new machine with existing contacts, pictures, and files from that old and aging PC running Windows XP. In this quick guide ...

Editor: Say hello to fellow tech writer and Lifehacker reader The How-To Geek, who was kind enough to pull together some of the best Windows Vista power tweaks here on Lifehacker today. Whether it's ...

One year after Microsoft Windows Vista hit the market, public response to it has been underwhelming. True, most buyers of new Windows-based home computers get Vista pre-installed by default; but ...

In a world where there’s too much to do — and too little time to do it in — we’re always looking for shortcuts. So when we stumbled upon a blog entry by Kurt Shintaku over on Windows Live Spaces that ...

Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows Vista operating system promises to make your computer desktop jazzier and easier to navigate, but some of the machines debuting with the new software will feature ...

Some users of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system may notice problems with waking the computer from sleep or standby mode. When the feature is operating properly, the computer wakes when the ...