Consumers running Windows Vista Ultimate, who have blasted Microsoft for breaking promises to deliver a host of extras, are now knocking the company’s upgrade plans and discount pricing for Windows 7.

Microsoft should give Windows Vista Ultimate owners a free upgrade to Windows 7, an analyst said Monday. “I’d like to see a free upgrade [to Windows 7] for Vista Ultimate users,” said Michael Cherry, ...

Just when we were starting to be impressed with the ability to run Microsoft Vista on the Mac, the plot thickens: If you want to legally run Vista on Parallels Desktop for the Mac, you’re going to ...

Starting this week, Microsoft will feed Windows Vista Ultimate users an update that sniffs out pirated copies, a company manager said Tuesday. The update, which will hit some Vista Ultimate systems ...

Starting this week, Microsoft Corp. will feed Windows Vista Ultimate users an update that sniffs out pirated copies, a company manager said yesterday. The update, which will hit some Vista Ultimate ...

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 ...

Buyers of the priciest version of Windows Vista are miffed that Microsoft's initial upgrade discounts don't help them move to Windows 7. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several ...

We also found Vista Ultimate’s much-needed hierarchical user security model — called User Access Control (UAC) — will likely become problematic in a widespread deployment from both systems security ...