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 ...

Microsoft has decided to offer six distinct versions of the Windows update. Here they are from simplest to most tricked-out. Windows Vista Starter Sold only on new PCs in emerging markets such as ...

Amazon.com has begun peddling Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system on its Web site. The Internet giant is displaying the Vista logo and has priced the software at US$100 to $399. Pricing is ...

Acer is talking openly about what many OEMs are privately expressing frustration over: the weak value proposition offered by Windows Vista Home Basic.<BR><BR> Story.

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 ...

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 ...

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Although it is still working to finish the code for Windows Vista, Microsoft has reached a decision on which versions of the operating system to offer. Microsoft has settled on six versions, including ...

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 ...