Microsoft has had a really strange bug on its hands recently. Around the time that Apple announced its suspiciously familiar Liquid Glass feature, the ghost of Windows Vista began popping up in the ...

Reader y0himba shows off his Windows Vista desktop, which is sporting a transparent taskbar, Start menu, and instant messenger client. He details the full rundown of what's running here: I am ...

Once hailed (or at least marketed) as a key new feature in Windows Vista, Desktop Gadgets are going the way of the dodo. In their stead? Windows 8 Metro, of course.

Microsoft agreed Tuesday to make changes to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista in an effort to assuage Google and head off a further antitrust battle with U.S. regulators.

Even with the specialized "files" sticking out of them, the folder icons on a Windows Vista desktop can be pretty hard to tell apart, and there's no built-in OS X-like coloring application to aid ...

As Microsoft continues to recommend that business customers not pass over Vista in favor of the forthcoming Windows 7, the company has been working quietly to improve its software for desktop ...

What Happened: At the annual WWDC 2023 event, Apple unveiled macOS Sonoma, the latest version of its desktop operating system, which surprised attendees with its nostalgic nods to Windows XP and ...

Customs spokesperson The agency, one of the largest in the Federal Government, rolled out Vista in late 2007 to its approximately 6000 desktop and laptop machines, upgrading from Windows 2000 and ...

Microsoft has agreed to make changes that would allow end users and OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to select a default desktop search program in Vista that’s not Windows Instant Search ...

It's good, if not blindingly fast, and it integrates well with Outlook. If you're not going to use Google Desktop (or Vista) and still want desktop widgets, I recommend Yahoo Widgets.