Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive editor and east coast bureau chief, serving as department editor for business technology and software covered by CNET ...

Since Windows Vista has been released to the public, there has been a lot of confusion and hype surrounding some of the licensing decisions and restrictions with which Microsoft Corp. saddled the ...

Fighting Windows Vista's piracy protection? Perhaps trying to guess a product activation key will solve the problem. A "brute force" key generator that randomly tries a variety of 25-digit codes until ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - After more than five years of development, over 50 million lines of software code, a $6 billion (3 billion pound) investment and a few headaches, Microsoft's Windows Vista finally ...

Microsoft on Wednesday gave developers access to a key piece of Windows Vista, months ahead of the operating system's release. The company posted near-final versions of two software development ...