For now, documenting all the hard work that went into the development of Windows 7 ahead of its official Oct. 22 release date will have to do. Microsoft and Intel talked Tuesday of four key areas ...

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 ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged yesterday during testimony before Congress. "Working in partnership with ...

Microsoft shocks PDC attendees by giving them a free tablet PC, but for Microsoft the gift arms a horde of developers with the tools to explore Windows 7’s advanced features and expose the ...

Last week, Microsoft completed the three-year-plus development of Windows 7, its latest flagship operating system. It's the product the company hopes will wash away the stigma of Windows Vista. The ...

Microsoft remains mum on the actual ship date of Windows 7, although in the past it has said that it would ship three years after Vista was generally available, which was late January, 2007. That ...

Steven Sinofsky, the no-nonsense Microsoft executive credited with bringing new discipline to Windows engineering, [is] the company’s newest divisional president. … The promotion signals the company’s ...

Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer likes to be blunt every once in a while. He is known to get very excited about Microsoft's work. A little too excited some would say. This has often brought a lot ...