Top Microsoft stories of 2006

Microsoft delays Windows Vista until 2007

Written by vnunet.com staff

Microsoft delays Windows Vista until 2007
Microsoft has delayed the release of its consumer Windows Vista operating system until January 2007. The application will be made available to enterprises in November this year.

Microsoft France exposes Vista release date
Microsoft has revealed the projected release dates of Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 in a phone conversation with vnunet.com's French sister publication SVM, the publication claims.

Microsoft verifies Vista versions
Microsoft has revealed the flavours of Vista it will be launching later this year, confirming many of the details which were inadvertently leaked last week.

Microsoft axes Vista Bios replacement
Microsoft has decided not to support the Extensible Firmware Interface in its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.

The truth about Windows Vista? It's vapourware
Bill Gates earlier this month had the opportunity to show off Windows Vista to the world. His keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show was actually the first time that the Microsoft chairman demonstrated the forthcoming operating system to an audience outside Microsoft – no developers or hardware engineers.

Tags:

Further reading

Related articles

Do you agree?

Advertisement

Job of the week

Search thousands of IT jobs :

Search thousands of IT jobs:

Advanced search

Hiring now on ComputingCareers:

Related IT jobs

Search thousands of IT jobs :

Search thousands of IT jobs:

Advanced search

Advertisement

Watch

09 May 2008

2.51 MBWiMax muddle, Google tactics and asteroid bunkum More...

08 May 2008

3.26 MBBroadband Anywhere, phone-free transport and Web 3.0 More...

07 May 2008

3.19 MBUK success, a paucity of IT women and robot wars More...

Poll

DATA ENCRYPTION

DATA ENCRYPTION

Should encryption be mandatory for all personal data held by companies and governments?

Previous poll results

Newsletter signup

Sign up for our range of FREE newsletters:

Existing User

Newsletter user login:

Enter email address to edit your newsletter preferences

Spotlight

Ofcom

Ofcom outlines future wireless vision

Wi-Fi healthcare and intelligent car brakes in the pipeline   More...

HP

HP Labs opens doors to academia

Innovation Research Program invites proposals related to current research   More...

Advertisement

Asteroid

Nasa plans manned mission to asteroid

Bruce Willis thankfully not going   More...

MySpace

MySpace offers opt-in data sharing

Deals signed with Photobucket, Twitter, eBay and Yahoo   More...

Advertisement