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Vista users get free Wi-Fi access
News Early adopters of Windows Vista will be able to get three months' free Wi-Fi access with hotzone operator The Cloud. American Vista users can take advantage of a similar deal, with T-Mobile as the operator.
[February 1, 2007, 12:38]
Vista's journey isn't over yet
News Microsoft has wrapped up development on Windows Vista, but there's still a lot of work to do before new PCs start shipping with the operating system in January. After weeks of final testing and stamping out last-minute bugs, Microsoft declared...
[November 13, 2006, 8:36]
Vista is greener and more secure, says Microsoft
News Eighteen months after its launch, Windows Vista is growing in popularity because of its low power requirements and good security, a senior UK manager for Microsoft has claimed. Speaking at a round-table in London on Wednesday, John Curran, director...
[May 23, 2008, 15:40]
Vista - so bad, they pay you to take it?
Blog Comment The Vista Business Upgrade which allows you to upgrade from both XP home and Vista Home is £130. Then you realise that with this you are actually getting a double upgrade in the price, up to Vista and up to Business level networking.
[December 20, 2007, 9:18]
Happy birthday (dear) Vista
Blog Comment I've had numerous compatibility problems with Vista, starting with the irritating -- Yahoo IM refusing to allow me to audio conference -- and ending with the deal-breaker: Neither of our SSL VPNs nor our IPSec VPN will work with Vista.
[November 5, 2007, 9:35]
Happy birthday (dear) Vista
Blog Comment Vista application compatibility is killing us. Incredibly long and work intensive to do this job manually. Camwood software looks like a magic wand. Did anybody tested it and can share their experience with us?
[November 2, 2007, 10:43]
Vista - Is It Some Sort of Drug?
Blog I have known since the Vista disk in my Lifebook S6510 got corrupted and wouldn't boot that I would have to reload it before SP1 comes out. Last night I decided that I probably had enough time to do that, so I swapped the XP drive out and the Vista...
[March 7, 2008, 14:06]
Vista still insecure, says security vendor
News Security vendor PC Tools has released more research to back up its claim that Vista is far from immune to infection. In an attempt to reinforce its claim that Vista is less secure than Windows 2000, PC Tools on Monday released statistics, collected...
[May 20, 2008, 13:44]
Vista to XP - Two weeks later
Blog Comment Vista is causing all kinds of problems on a whole wealth of different computers. Mint took 20 mins to fully install and wireless and all the peripheries worked straight away - faster and more reliable than with Vista.
[December 21, 2007, 18:44]
Vista to XP - Two weeks later
Blog Comment I have used Vista Business now for 4 months and had no issues whatsoever with stability. Although my laptop was built for vista and came with full vista driver kit. There are of course incompatabilities with older software, but that is to be...
[December 23, 2007, 23:05]
Happy birthday (dear) Vista
Blog Comment Our vista migration is stalled because of the difficulties we have to identify the failing apps without spending months testing the thousands of applicatiosn we have. app compat is a massive problem for us.
[November 2, 2007, 10:18]
Vista struggles to attract enterprise users
Talkback Replacing XP with VISTA is like taking a step backward, with all the new memory, and hardware requirements, not to mention compatibility problems. As far as IE7 adoption, IE7 is IE6 in a new wrapper, so why upgrade?
[April 3, 2008, 13:44]
'Vista Capable' lawsuit.
Talkback A new version of Vista Basic? So, you sue MS and win. What will the settlement consist of? Somehow I can't see MS doling out any money in this scheme. I think they will beat the rap and get away without paying a cent.
[February 25, 2008, 13:52]
Vista to XP - A Forced Retreat
Blog But I said that I would keep this blog up to date with my Vista/XP adventures, and I want others who may run into this situation to know they are not alone, and they are probably not at fault. It has been exactly a week since I put the Vista...
[February 26, 2008, 8:49]
Vista tipped to appear in December '06
News The official release date has already been decided for Windows Vista, according to rumours which say you can expect it to be ready in time to make an appearance late next year. According to a report by Windows IT Pro, the official date for a full...
[September 1, 2005, 9:50]
vista.zip
Downloads Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.vista/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller NVIDIA nForce RAID Device NVIDIA nForce...
[January 15, 2007, 6:00]
Novell: Vista will drive users to Linux
News The high costs of migrating from Windows XP to Windows Vista will be the catalyst that encourages more companies to seriously consider moving to desktop Linux, according to open source and networking company Novell on Monday.
[September 12, 2005, 12:55]
Vista and Office - interface changes
Talkback As an IT professional in industry, at present I can see no reason for a business organisation to move to Vista. Vista and Office 2K7 are market push. There simply isn't any unbiased and tangible reason to do so.
[January 11, 2007, 22:25]
Vista backlash begins
News With the launch on Tuesday in the UK of the consumer version of Microsoft Windows Vista, some critics have delivered an early backlash against the operating system. Antivirus vendor Kaspersky has criticised key security features in Vista.
[January 31, 2007, 9:35]
Vista downgrade product prompts lots of U Turns!!
Blog Now that NEC has officially launched a product to let network administrators downgrade machines running Windows Vista to XP, others have followed suit and jumped on the bandwagon of change. Sir Clive Sinclair has brought out a cassette that lets...
[February 6, 2008, 13:47]
