Microsoft's new version of Windows will run on less-modern PCs--but without many of the bells and whistles. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Microsoft is designing its ever-present Windows ...

Microsoft plans to drop the “Home” and “Pro” tags with the next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and is looking at shipping a single product that includes the features found in today’s Windows ...

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. released the schedule and sketched out some of the main features of Longhorn, its next major version of Windows here this week. There are plenty of features worth tracking, ...

Seattle — The good news is that Microsoft Corp. is working with content and service providers to get digital media on the PC. Now for the bad news: On first review, the multipronged effort looks ...

GDC, San Francisco--Windows, graphics, and gaming technologies general manager Dean Lester graciously sat down with GameSpot to discuss the past, present, and future of Windows as a gaming platform.

Could a brouhaha result between developers of a revived Longhorn client and Microsoft, which says the project violates its licensing agreement? A version of the Windows Longhorn client platform has ...

Microsoft plans in April to offer developers an updated test version of Longhorn, along with more details on what's in store with the next major update to Windows. In an e-mail to developers on ...

SEATTLE--Although Microsoft is recommending that computers be pretty modern to fully run the next version of Windows, Longhorn will probably also run on a good number of older machines. That's the ...