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Microsoft ditches Vista transfer limits
News Reversing a licensing change announced two weeks ago, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not limit the number of times retail customers can transfer their Windows Vista licence to a different computer.
[November 6, 2006, 9:17]
Microsoft Windows Vista & Intel Platform Alignment
White Papers This presentation reviews Microsoft Windows Vista plans, milestones and innovation. The presentation explains Windows Vista SKU plans and feature differentiation. It explains Windows Vista graphics requirements and interfaces and Windows Vista and...
[November 4, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft updates Vista business beta
News Microsoft has provided some of its current business testers of Windows Vista with a slightly updated beta version. Until last month's delay, Microsoft had been planning to have Vista on new PCs in time for this year's holiday buying season.
[April 26, 2006, 11:50]
Microsoft: Vista bought but not deployed
News Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista; however, the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought Vista licences are yet to deploy the software. One of the benefits [for customers] is access to the...
[December 12, 2007, 7:50]
Microsoft cuts Vista prices by 10 percent
News Microsoft has announced 10 percent discounts for UK small businesses and home users wishing to purchase additional licences for Vista. Nick White, product manager on the Vista launch team, revealed the extension to Europe of the Windows Vista...
[March 26, 2007, 14:38]
Microsoft: Vista Stunk, but we PROMISE not to do it again with Win7
Blog I find it ever so reassuring that they promise Windows 7 will be better than Vista. What about those, such as myself, who were forced to buy Vista Business just so that we could get XP Professional, and then threw away Vistaster?
[September 17, 2009, 15:07]
Microsoft loosens Vista licence terms
News Microsoft is loosening the reins on Vista licensing in an effort to let businesses try out some new computing possibilities, including "diskless" PCs. Under new licensing terms for Windows Vista Enterprise, businesses will be able to use the...
[April 2, 2007, 15:45]
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. Vista SP1 is already available to subscribers to the Microsoft Developer...
[February 20, 2008, 15:24]
Microsoft releases Vista programming tools
News Microsoft on Wednesday gave developers access to a key piece of Windows Vista, months ahead of the operating system's release. It will be shipped with Vista and also made available in versions for Microsoft's current client and server operating...
[January 19, 2006, 8:15]
Microsoft ending Vista family discount
News Five months after its introduction, Microsoft is discontinuing a program that offered some Windows Vista purchasers the ability to buy additional copies of the operating system at a substantial discount.
[June 29, 2007, 9:23]
Microsoft: Vista SP1 due next year
News After months of silence, Microsoft finally coughed up details on Tuesday about its plans for the first update to Windows Vista, saying the service pack will arrive in the first quarter of next year. In the next few weeks, Microsoft will start...
[August 29, 2007, 18:15]
Microsoft releases Vista updates
News Microsoft has released two updates for Windows Vista. Users must validate their version of Vista with Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) — a Microsoft mechanism to protect against the illegal copying of its software — to receive the updates.
[August 9, 2007, 10:36]
Microsoft Windows Vista: Setting a New Standard for Security and Privacy Through Innovation and Collaboration
White Papers Microsoft's ultimate goal is to make Windows Vista the most secure PC operating system software in the history of Windows. With its forthcoming release, Microsoft is delivering an integrated and carefully configured system that brings greater...
[September 1, 2009, 1:23]
Microsoft releases Vista SP1
News Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) went onto Microsoft's Download Center website on Monday, fulfilling Microsoft's claim that it would be made available by mid March. According to Microsoft, the service pack will be pushed out via automatic updates to all...
[March 18, 2008, 16:15]
Microsoft updates Vista preview
News Microsoft said on Wednesday it is releasing an updated test version of Windows Vista, the forthcoming update to Microsoft's flagship operating system. Microsoft stuck to its existing timetable for Vista, promising a consumer-oriented test version...
[February 23, 2006, 8:35]
Microsoft: Vista is ready to ship
News After five years and many twists and turns, Microsoft on Wednesday said that development of Windows Vista is complete. Microsoft's move caps an intense period for the Windows development team, which has raced to stamp out a number of bugs in test...
[November 9, 2006, 8:46]
Microsoft blocks Vista driver 'hack' tool
News Microsoft on Thursday blocked an application which could have allowed malicious code into the Vista kernel. This was "one of the big security features advertised by Microsoft for Vista 64-bit", said Ollie Whitehouse, a security researcher at...
[August 3, 2007, 14:17]
Microsoft predicts Vista stampede
News Microsoft is predicting that Windows Vista will be adopted by companies twice as fast as its predecessor, Windows XP. Twelve months after the release of Vista, Microsoft expects that usage share of the oft-delayed operating system in businesses...
[October 2, 2006, 8:50]
Microsoft makes Vista SP1 release candidate public
News Microsoft has made the latest version of Vista's Service Pack 1 release candidate available for download to the general public, after initially restricting it to 15,000 beta testers when it debuted last week.
[January 14, 2008, 7:51]
Microsoft offers Vista licence discount
News Microsoft wants to get your whole house running Windows Vista. In what is being billed as a limited time offer, Microsoft will let those who buy a boxed version of Vista Ultimate Edition purchase discounted licences for up to two more PCs in their...
[January 18, 2007, 7:33]
