You can upgrade from your current edition of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000 to a corresponding or better edition of Windows Vista by purchasing and installing an upgrade copy of Windows Vista. Depending on which edition of Windows you are running and the edition of Windows Vista you would like to install, you have two options for the installation process:
Recently I've been hearing questions from journalists, other bloggers and customers about what exactly makes systems fail validation. Specifically, I have been asked for two things. First, a breakdown of the kinds of piracy that are detected by WGA and which are the most common. And second, what is the rate of ?false positives? with WGA (falsely identifying a copy of Windows as counterfeit)?
New graphics standards are useless if developers don't make use of them, though. In our final installment on the people behind DirectX 10, we speak with the developers of Hellgate: London, Crysis, Flight Simulator X, and Age of Conan.
In the third part of my exhaustive Windows Vista Beta 2 review, I look at some of the most interesting new features you can expect from this public beta release!
Whether Microsoft virtualization technology is an important component of your existing infrastructure or you're just a Virtual PC enthusiast, you can now download Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 absolutely free.
It's Nvidia's turn in our series on the people behind DirectX 10. We talk with VP of Technical Marketing Tony Tamasi about what DX10 means for Nvidia GPUs.
Today, Microsoft announced the completion of Windows Small Busines Server 2003 R2, which arrives with a lower-cost Premium Edition, dramatically expanded CAL rights, and an updated version of the Business Technology Assessment Toolkit!
This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update was released in July 2006.
Windows Media Encoder Studio Edition Beta 1 is an exciting new addition to the Windows Media tools family. It is a powerful tool for video professionals, optimized for the creation of high-quality offline encoding using Microsoft?s implementation of the VC-1 video standard (WMV9).
Microsoft has never released a service pack for Windows98 SE! So here it is; the 'unofficial Service Pack 2.1a'. It contains all Windows98 SE updates from Windows Update site and more integrated into a self-extracting and self-installing pack like Microsoft's update files.
July 11, 2006 will bring a close to Extended Support for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me as part of the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy. Microsoft will retire public and technical support, including security updates, by this date.
In the first part of our feature on the people behind DX10, we chatted with Microsofties about how the API was made. In this part, we focus on the hardware implementation as we pose questions to ATI's CTO, PC Business Group, Bob Drebin.