Windows Vista was controversial for a lot of reasons, but the most transparent one was the strange hate for Windows Aero—the biggest visual revamp for Windows since Windows XP. Recently, with the ...

If you’re interested in the history of Windows, you probably know a bit about “Longhorn,” Microsoft’s internal codename for the OS update that would eventually become Windows Vista. Microsoft planned ...

Pete Wells’ aging computer doesn’t support Aero. Should he upgrade his graphics card? I like Aero, but not enough to bother upgrading hardware to get it. Many people don’t like it at all. The built-in ...