Microsoft engages in an extended public mea culpa about Vista, admitting the key reasons why the OS failed among business customers About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of ...

If you’re interested in the history of Windows, you probably know a bit about “Longhorn,” Microsoft’s internal codename for the OS update that would eventually become Windows Vista. Microsoft planned ...

Microsoft is accelerating the development of the next version of its Windows client operating system and plans to test a feature-complete version by early next year, a lead on the Windows Vista ...

Longhorn Server and Vista are of the same ilk. Over 70% of the code in the two products is shared; in fact, Vista and Longhorn Server were being developed together for much of the Vista development ...

Outgoing Windows development chief James Allchin says he was being “purposefully dramatic” in a three-year-old e-mail to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer that surfaced late last ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s platforms and ...

Microsoft executives Tuesday said its engineering team will have all the planned features in the beta code by the end of December but could not say when the feature-complete beta 2 code will be handed ...

In an open letter to developers posted on the Windows Vista Developer Center Web site, Jim Allchin, co-president of the platforms and services division at Microsoft, is looking to entice developers to ...

Editor’s note: This story was reprinted from Computerworld. For more of Computerworld’s coverage of the Mac, visit its Mac Knowledge Center. Outgoing Windows development chief James Allchin says he ...