Windows Vista won't be available until early next year, but current XP users drooling over Vista's new Aero theme and utilities, such as sidebars and widgets, don't have to wait for Microsoft to ...

Windows Vista is here, but the DirectX 10 games aren't. Find out how well Windows Vista plays your current DirectX 9 games.

Windows only: If you're in no hurry to adopt Windows Vista but you've taken a shine to the Vista Sidebar, Joshoon over at Deviant Art has uploaded a port of the actual application to Windows XP ...

Shadowrun and Halo 2 - the first champions of Windows Vista gaming - have already been cracked by warez and hacking gro ... Vista games cracked for XP. Hacker groups taunt MS. Image credit: Eurogamer.

Blizzard's killing Windows XP and Vista support for its highly popular games, following in the footsteps of Chrome, Dropbox, Gmail, and Microsoft itself.

Fancy a little pre-canned Q&A action with Kevin Unangst, global director of Games for Windows? I know you do!

If you’re a PC gamer with a large library of Steam games, and are running Windows XP or Windows Vista, then you’ll want to upgrade to Windows 10 (or Windows 7 or Windows 8.1) pretty soon, as ...

The somewhat controversial step to remove XP and Vista support for Office 2013 may anger some customers, but, a $39.99 Windows 8 upgrade promotion will make it easier to stomach for some. See More ...

XP has stuck around so long because it was an extremely popular version of Windows -- certainly compared to its successor, Vista. And Windows 7 is similarly popular, which means it may also be ...

Vista produced poor copy speeds in our small file tests, XP again placed second and Windows 7 came out on top. But when we tried transferring larger 1GB files, Vista surprisingly just managed to ...

Windows 7 also shuts down quicker than its two predecessors, taking just 4.5 seconds compared with seven seconds for Vista and 6.5 seconds for XP. Startup on the low-end system naturally takes longer.

Windows Vista vs. Windows XP: a comparison ... Andy, the author, covers everything from the newly improved Start button to Mahjong Titans, which is one of the new games in Vista.