Today Windows Vista and AMD announced that William Temple of California, USA has won the Vanishing Point grand prize, which includes a trip to see the ultimate vista -- the earth from space courtesy of Windows Vista, AMD and Rocketplane.  The team at Windows, AMD and Rocketplane are hosting a conference call and webcast at 2:30PM CST ...

When we release a product to market at MS, tradition holds that everyone involved in building it is usually given a small gift in recognition of their efforts.  These ''Ship-It Awards'' are usually of more sentimental value than anything else, but everyone who's received one displays it proudly in their office as a badge of honor (and often ...

We had the chance yesterday morning to drop by the Midtown Manhattan Best Buy store to see Steve Ballmer and Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson, along with the Mason family from the Living with Windows Vista program, celebrate the launch of Windows Vista.  Here, Cassidy Mason shows Steve how the family used Windows Media Center to record TV ...

Today is the day.  All Editions of Windows Vista are finally available to anyone and everyone in the general public! (Whew.) Thank you to everyone in the community (more than 5M testers) who contributed to making this the best OS we've ever released! And, remember that you can purchase and download Windows Vista from your desk or on the ...

  Check it out -- an offer for Windows Vista users only.  Take your mobile PC running Windows Vista to any North American T-Mobile HotSpot between 30th January and 30th April for a complimentary, blazing-fast broadband connection.  This offer goes live today and will not receive further promotion until January 30th, but I wanted ...

The following is an exclusive invitation to you, our community, to join us in celebrating the launch of Windows Vista on the 29th and 30th of January. You've heard the buzz, helped customers, drove excitement and news, now it's time to celebrate!  Join us for 24 hours of Windows Vista Launch Celebrations on January 29th and 30th taking ...

On 30 January 2007, Microsoft will be making Windows Vista available to the world at large.  This event goes by different monikers:  ''general availability,'' ''GA'' and ''retail availability'' are some of them.  But no matter what it's called, lots of people -- I for one -- are looking forward to that day.  As excitement ...