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Microsoft on Wednesday released Windows Vista to manufacturing, marking the end of the operating system's five-year, and often difficult, development cycle. "This is a good day," said Jim Allchin, the co-president of the company's Windows division, in a press conference Wednesday morning...

Windows co-president Jim Allchin has said that Windows Vista, which met its release to manufacturing milestone earlier this week, is so superior to Window XP on security that he feels safe letting his own son run a PC without anti-virus software. A prominent security analyst countered that...

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that they will once again delay Windows Vista, formerly known as Longhorn, until early next year. The software giant said it will wrap up development of the new operating system this year and make it available to volume licensing customers in November...

Longhorn will be the most-secure versions of Windows ever, will be easier to use and manage, and will cost less to operate. It will sport impressive advances in how files are managed, organized, and displayed. And Microsoft's next-generation operating system shouldn't be delayed--it's on...