If you're a typical consumer, most likely you've been running Windows XP Home since the day you bought your computer from your favorite retailer (online or in-person ...

A group within Microsoft Corp. recommended in 2005 that the lowest-priced version of Windows Vista be released without the “Vista” name because of concerns over “user product expectations,” according ...

Who’s buying new PCs with Windows Vista Home Basic? Judging by the name, you’d assume those OS editions would be loaded on underpowered machines headed for tract homes in the burbs and studio ...

Back in 1998 there was one consumer Windows OS release tier, just like in 1995. Come 2001, there were two: Home and Professional. In 2007, there will be four: Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, and ...

You may think of Wal-Mart as a down-market PC seller, but as emails in the Vista “junk PC” case show, Wal-Mart was furious at Microsoft’s Vista Capable scheme, and thought that Vista Home Basic never ...

Joe Wilcox at Jupiter Research's Microsoft Monitor blog discovered pre-order pricing information for Windows Vista upgrade packages on Amazon.com yesterday. Here's what he spied with his little eye: ...

As reported by CRN in mid-January, Microsoft is slated to ship six editions of the Windows client upgrade: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista ...

For example, I wandered into a local branch of office-supply giant Staples the weekend of February 3, 2007, to check out the prices on Vista upgrades and the availability of computers with Vista ...

A group within Microsoft Corp. recommended in 2005 that the lowest-priced version of Windows Vista be released without the Vista name because of concerns over “user product expectations,” according to ...

Documents show Microsoft debated whether Home Basic should be called 'Vista'; lawsuit alleges Vista Capable program inflated prices of PCs that could only run the low-end edition A group within ...