Intel And Dell Put Vista Plans On Ice
News Intel will roll out Vista internally only once the first service pack of the operating system has been released, and Dell is likely to do the same. Speaking to ZDNet UK at a Dell event in Paris on Thursday, Intel Europe's director of IT, Martin...
[May 4, 2007, 12:01]
Vista - Do I Or Don't I?
Blog I just received my upgrade copy of Vista from Dell, several months after ordering my spanking new laptop. Now I'm torn - do I wait until SP1 or do I just go ahead and upgrade from XP. This, I know, is a dilemma facing a lot of you, especially those...
[March 26, 2007, 11:30]
Vista Service Pack 1 (RC1 Refresh) Upgrade
Blog With many holding out on buying Vista until the first Service Pack it's really important to Microsoft to get it right with this release. The file size quoted is between 67 and 640mb I guess this depends on the version of vista and your hardware.
[January 15, 2008, 15:42]
Windows XP Outshines Vista In Benchmarking Test
News New tests have revealed that XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1. Vista's first service pack, to be released early next year, is intended to boost the operating system's...
[November 27, 2007, 7:10]
XP Is Dead; Long Live XP
News Because Vista Business and Vista Ultimate come with a licence agreement that includes 'downgrade rights', HP and Dell decided they would continue to sell PCs that came with a Vista licence but had XP pre-installed.
[June 30, 2008, 13:53]
Vista Updates On The Way?
Blog It seems that the next Patch Tuesday will bring some major-ish updates to Vista (unofficial versions of which are available here). We're not the only ones who thought that would be the case - Intel itself was under the same impression, as was Dell.
[August 1, 2007, 11:52]
Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update
News Microsoft has stopped automatically distributing a prerequisite piece of software for Vista Service Pack 1, following customer complaints that it had caused system problems. Servicing stack update KB937287, released last week, contained updates to...
[February 20, 2008, 15:24]
Vista SP1 - Now Installed And Running
Blog Comment The file transfer I found was slightly quicker in general but the biggest improvement in speed was transferring from a system running vista to another system running vista. At least with SP1 it no longer waits for vista to figure out an estimate...
[March 25, 2008, 14:14]
Microsoft On Hyper-V: 'We're Virtually There'
News Sanderson said that, once final code is complete, Microsoft's partners, including Dell, Intel and IBM, plan to integrate support for Hyper-V into their virtualisation offerings, including pre-installation on servers, device support, solutions and...
[March 19, 2008, 14:36]
Windows XP SP3 Installed
Blog Overall I am very happy with the S6510 running XP since my latest retreat from Vista last week. I sincerely hope that OEMs such as Fujitsu, Dell, HP and the like, who will have to take the brunt of the customer support calls and dissatisfaction...
[April 30, 2008, 8:53]
Groundhog Day
Talkback My Dell laptop, which is running Vista, was also caught in a never-ending and repeating update (3 of 3) loop on Sunday. In the end I had to configure the machine to boot from the CD and use the Vista System disk that came with the machine to get...
[February 21, 2008, 11:22]
Wrong
Talkback It is indeed the right thing to do, wait for SP1, you seem to have things the wrong way round, people should have upgraded to 2000/XP from 98 but not XP/2000 to VISTA. The change from XP to VISTA is simply eye candy and a few apps that you can...
[July 10, 2007, 10:52]
