Windows XP may be dead to some, but Microsoft is quickly realizing it won’t soon be forgotten.

Windows Vista introduced some new options in terms of hibernation and “sleep modes.”  The problem is, there’s always been some confusion as to how each of them differ, and which situations call for sleep and which ones call for hibernation.

Windows Vista, while having a sleek interface and several advanced OS features, is a relatively slow operating system overall.  With some simple tweaks, Vista can run much smoother and efficiently, let’s take a look at the top 5 tips for improving Vista’s speed and overall performance. 

A Wall Street analyst has said that Microsoft stands to lose around $395 million in revenues for 2009 because of the poor adoption of its Vista operating system by corporations.

An IT manager who was trying to upgrade his Windows Vista Ultimate installation was billed seven times due to a malfunction at Windows Live Marketplace.

A campaign called ‘Bad Vista’ from the Free Software Foundation is trying to tell Internet users that Vista is bad and that they shouldn’t use it.

If you’re interested in reading a very indepth review of Windows Vista and other Microsoft technologies (with occasional Apple and other reviews as well), then you need to know about Paul Thurrott.

Once you see Windows Vista in action, you’ll want it. It’s Microsoft’s best operating system yet, and it’s arriving tomorrow!

Windows Vista comes with more drivers ready to go than any other version of Windows, and you can download plenty more from the Windows Update website as you need them. If you can’t find your driver CD, letting Windows Update do a search for you may actually prove useful at last.

My colleague James Cornelius came up with 5 reasons to hate Windows Vista. Well, I’m a Vista user myself right now (still on RC1, no RTM goodness for me yet), so here’s my comic response to James’ Vista rant.

In a bit of an oopsie daisie, Microsoft’s OneCare anti-virus and Internet Security service claimed that Google’s Gmail contained a virus. It’s yet another false positive by protective software - will we ever be rid of the false positive syndrome?

The latest browsers from Microsoft and Mozilla, IE7 and Firefox 2.0, promise to protect you from phishing sites trying to steal your data. But a new report shows just how hopeless and unreliable both browsers are at this task. Psst… we’ve found a product that does the job much, much better - and it’s free!

Remember the Opera browser? Now in version 9 for PCs, it’s free and has advanced features you won’t find in Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. It also works with a range of devices and not just PCs, meaning that ‘a night at the Opera’ can now be a 24×7 browsing experience!

Internet pirates don’t waste any time, if the latest Vista news is any indication. The final ‘gold’ release of Vista has already been spotten on pirate sites across the web. But it’s fools gold, with the risks of pirate software, especially an operating system, far too dangerous to contemplate.

If you thought Jim Allchin meant you could run Vista without anti-virus, he now says we misunderstood him and he should have been clearer. His clear advice is to always use anti-virus and security software, no matter what computer you use.

The MacBook has received an update to Intel’s Core 2 Duo chip at last, closing the performance gap that existed only until the last few days. Now all’s that left is for the Mac Mini to be updated, and Apple’s stunning transformation to Intel’s latest will be complete.

The Zune is Microsoft’s great hope to defeat the dominance of the Apple iPod, and it’s coming to US stores on Tuesday the 14th. The question on some people’s lips is whether Apple will spoil the party and launch a widescreen wireless iPod on Monday…

With every new version of Windows, we’ve come to expect a range of new sounds. The beta versions of Vista just used the existing Windows XP sounds, but Windows Vista is set to aurally excite us thanks to the hard work of Robert Fripp, and the lead of the Vista sound project, Steve Ball. So how does it sound?

Microsoft Windows Chief Jim Allchin let his seven year old son run Vista without any anti-virus software and claimed he suffered no infections. The news has spread across the globe, with some thinking Allchin is crazy. But I’ve run XP without anti-virus for months earlier this year, and I didn’t get infected. Why did I do it, and why no infections?

Online reports over the weekend suggest Windows Vista has ‘secretly’ gone RTM (release to manufacturing), and is already on the way to manufacturers, beating Microsoft’s revised internal deadline of Wednesday, November 8. Is it true?