Tag archive: Ben Fathi

According to a Microsoft executive, the company is already starting to draw up plans to deliver the Vista successor as early as 2009. Keep in mind that this is likely a large service pack equivalent, although it could be a significant overhaul. Vista shipped more than five years after the introduction of Windows XP and about 2 1/2 years after Windows Service Pack 2 was released. So in the general timeline of things, this would make… Read More

The brouhaha over developing third-party security applications for Windows Vista may be far from over, but Microsoft has followed up on a pledge it made last October to clue third-party security developers into the APIs they'll need to use to tap into the Vista kernel. In order to improve security in Windows Vista—at least, compared to the long-standing nightmare which has been security under Windows XP—Microsoft extended… Read More