As soon as you click the Start button to open the Start menu, the Start Search field is selected by default and you can immediately begin a search operation. As you type, Windows Vista dynamically ...

Windows Vista's transparent Aero theme was a significant departure from the look of Windows XP. Windows 11 brings transparency back to Microsoft's desktop in a big way, enshrining Vista's legacy.

According to NetMarketshare, the desktop share of Windows Vista was just under 2 percent two years ago, in March, 2015. Today, it’s at 0.78 percent—about half of Windows 8’s 1.65 percent, ...

Windows 8 has achieved a 3.17 percent share of desktop operating systems, putting it behind Windows Vista, Microsoft's most disliked OS — until now perhaps.

This is the real Vista desktop, and an old version that works like the current Windows XP GDI+ desktop drawing system exists in Vista only for backwards compatibility with systems that don't have ...

Inside Windows 7's New Desktop. November 3, 2008 / 12:30 PM EST / CNET The differences between Vista and Windows 7 are subtle -- sometimes so subtle that they can go unnoticed. This ...

From left to right: Yahoo Widgets, Desktop Sidebar, and Google Desktop gadgets. Windows Vista will feature Windows Sidebar. The sidebar is a vertical panel located on one side of the screen and is ...

Windows XP and Vista both have shortcuts you can place in the quick links bar to show the desktop (and shortcut lovers will of course already be using WinKey+D to minimize all windows).

An earlier version of Windows for the desktop. Released in late 2006 for businesses and early 2007 for consumers, Vista came in six versions (see Windows Vista versions ).

All of them work on Vista x86 and x64 editions, and I've tested most of them on the PDC build of Windows 7 as well. The full list (with download links) is available after the jump. Remote Desktop ...

By the time Vista is released, it will have been seven years since Microsoft made a meaningful OS release with Windows 2000. Linux developers have missed that gaping opportunity. Vista shows ...

The newest version of Windows is behind Vista by just a hundredth of a percent, based on the latest stats from Net Applications. Windows 8.1 closes in on Vista among desktop OS users - CNET X ...