Windows Vista is here, but does Microsoft’s ground-breaking OS live up to its promise? We put Vista through an extensive road test.

We provide the commentary on a bruising eight-round battle between Vista and Tiger.

Climb the steps all the way to Windows guru status with our invaluable selection of tips and shortcuts for XP and Vista.

We help you determine whether your current PC can run Vista and which version of the operating system best suits your needs.

Will a beefed-up firewall, User Account Control and disk encryption make Vista a safer choice than XP?

Is Vista’s suave new interface and menu system window dressing or a radical improvement in usability?

And it’ll speed up your PC says Microsoft, despite what some beta testers have been saying.

Microsoft has started from scratch with Vista’s networking features — but are they any better than those found in XP? We log-in and find out.

A million music downloads, movies on demand and copies signed by Bill Gates.

Not all webcams will work in Vista, so we examined three Vista-ready models to find the best.

Vista’s Network and Sharing Center brings networking, file sharing and discovery options together, making it far easier to diagnose problems.

Some bright spark in Microsoft's marketing department has apparently decided that the what will turn around flagging Vista sales is for it to be pitched by Jerry Seinfeld.

Toshiba’s resident portable computer visionary speaks about hardware design, Vista, and the future of notebook tech.

Add a TV tuner and you can make the most of Media Center, which is bundled with Vista Home Premium and Ultimate.

Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

Each month we put together a list of the technology and trends that have made us sit up and take notice.

One of the cheapest Vista SSD notebooks we've seen yet, though we're surprised by the benchmark results.

Breathe some life into your old PC in time for a Vista upgrade with these budget AGP video cards.

Physical RAM is a relatively limited resource and when it’s running low Windows uses the slower hard disk as a virtual memory area called the swapfile. Here's how to get it running in top shape.

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