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Vista Launch Sees PC Retail Sales Boost
News After five weeks of sluggish PC sales, US retailers received a big boost during the first week of Vista's launch, according to a report released on Thursday by Current Analysis. Current Analysis also noted that during Vista's debut week PC unit...
[February 9, 2007, 8:56]
PC Makers Well-prepared For Vista Push
News Microsoft may be glad to finally get Windows Vista out the door, but consider the PC industry the second happiest bunch. It wasn't much of a stretch for the PC community to get behind Vista. AMD chief executive Hector Ruiz told financial analysts...
[January 30, 2007, 8:26]
PC World Links Poor Profits To Vista Sales
News Poor sales of Windows Vista-related products have hit the profits of PC World, according to its parent company DSG International. In an interim trading statement issued on Thursday, DSG International said that a 0.6 percent drop in its group profit...
[October 18, 2007, 15:45]
'Vista' PC: Compaq's Brave New World
News The PC, which is code-named Vista, will run various versions of Windows, including Windows 2000 when it is available, and offer the latest Intel Pentium III chips, announced earlier in the month. The Houston, Texas, PC maker, which is rolling out...
[November 3, 1999, 15:59]
Microsoft To Refine Vista's PC Rating Tool
News Microsoft is retooling a PC rating feature in Windows Vista following criticism from hardware makers and others, providing some evidence that the next-generation operating system may not yet be ready for mass consumption.
[May 26, 2006, 10:25]
MSDN Webcast: Overview Of Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) Development For Windows Vista (Level 200)
White Papers An Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) is a fully functional computer that is small, mobile, and runs a complete version of a Windows operating system (currently Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 and soon Windows Vista).
[December 8, 2006, 0:00]
Windows Vista Projected To Help AMD Improve PC Management And Reduce Per-PC Total Cost Of Ownership By 6 Percent
White Papers A Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis conducted by Microsoft at AMD predicted that upgrading AMD's 5,200 desktop and notebook PCs to Windows Vista from Windows XP and Windows 2000 will provide AMD with a net savings of up to $192 per PC per...
[January 5, 2007, 0:00]
Windows Vista Can Help GarantiBank Reduce Per PC Total Cost Of Ownership By 6 Percent
White Papers A Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis conducted at GarantiBank in spring 2006 found that upgrading the bank's PCs to Microsoft Windows Vista from Windows XP would enable the bank to reduce overall TCO per PC.
[January 5, 2007, 0:00]
Vista Delay 'to Hit PC Retailers'
Talkback You'll see Vista go fast to market like never before. Simple solution. Unite and start very serious initiatives to offer alternative solutions instead. Heck, Microsoft might even throw in an extra sweetener or two if you keep your lip stiff enough...
[March 23, 2006, 21:19]
PC World Plans 'green' Vista PC
News One of the few details to emerge is that the PC's operating system will apparently be the recently released Windows Vista. It would be a good thing if PC World was to offer operating systems other than Vista.
[February 21, 2007, 9:22]
Will Your PC Keep Pace With Vista?
Talkback If vista runs perfectly on a P4HT Dual Core 3.5 gig machine and then intel release a P5 HTDC 5gig machine, Vista will still run perfectly on the P4 3.5 so there is no reason to adjust the measuring of the system is there?
[March 21, 2006, 10:22]
Vista Delay 'to Hit PC Retailers'
Talkback Maybe they will be able to remove more bugs by the delay, give those willing to take a risk a break. All the other versions were released too early so the consumer was the final beta tester, and even then some were never fixed by the next upgrade.
[March 23, 2006, 12:30]
Will Your PC Keep Pace With Vista?
Talkback So Microsoft launch a new product and make the mojority of the worlds PC's obselete for no good reason. Crazy
[March 24, 2006, 7:14]
Vista Delay 'to Hit PC Retailers'
Talkback Upgrade to Linux and buy new screens instead for a fraction of the cost. That's actually a viable option for a large majority of non-game playing computer users. You've got e-mail, web surfing, spreadsheets, wordprocessing, powerpoint, and...
[March 23, 2006, 13:42]
Will Your PC Keep Pace With Vista?
Talkback Yet another type of test for the harware vendors to get around by having special registers to cache and make that test seem faster. It is like the old "Brown fox jumps over the laxy dog" benchmark tests of the 1990's.
[March 23, 2006, 14:44]
Vista Registry Cleaner
Downloads Digeus Registry Cleaner for Windows Vista, a PC maintenance and recovery tool that eliminates system error messages, slow startup and shutdown speed, programs instability and computer crashes. Digeus Registry Cleaner for Windows Vista represents...
[October 10, 2008, 12:02]
Vista Rating Tool Is Tweaked
News Microsoft has reworked the PC assessment tool in Windows Vista after fielding complaints from hardware makers — but the changes may not be enough to completely quell concerns. Windows Experience Index is designed to help average consumers easily...
[July 10, 2006, 10:10]
Windows Vista Business Upgrade
Downloads Users can upgrade to Windows Vista Business from Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Home, or Windows XP Tablet PC. Note: This downloadable version of Windows Vista is an upgrade only. Windows Vista Business is the first Windows operating system designed...
[January 26, 2007, 19:10]
Will Your PC Keep Pace With Vista?
News This lays down guidelines for what capabilities are required for a new PC to display a "basic" logo (the machine is equipped for Vista) or a "premium" logo (the computer is designed to take advantage of Vista's new features).
[March 16, 2006, 11:00]
Microsoft To Spell Out Vista's Needs
News After months of providing only basic guidance about the kind of PC hardware needed to run Windows Vista, Microsoft is ready to get a bit more specific. To carry the Premium Ready designation, a PC must have a 1GHz processor, 1GB of main memory...
[May 18, 2006, 8:45]
