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Talkback it maybe worth ingoreing vista fro a while but i have com to find it work well on 512mb of ram
[November 28, 2005, 14:05]
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]
Vista to XP - Two weeks later
Blog Comment I have been running Vista (Enterprise for work & Ultimate for home), with a few issues that have been caused by the drivers which have been released by the OEMs. Tonight I fitted an Nvidea FX5200 into a tower that is running Vista Ultimate, and the...
[December 31, 2007, 0:18]
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 - do I or don't I?
Blog Comment And it did my head in - but that's not Vista's fault. This came back to haunt me yesterday because Vista claimed there wasn't enough space on the C: to install, and I didn't want to end up with my OS on the D: - ergo, I decided to start from scratch.
[March 27, 2007, 11:44]
Vista downgraded to XP on third of machines...?
Blog According to various reports, Vista has been downgraded to XP on a third of machines globally. Both TGDaily and TechNewsWorld are reporting claims that approximately 35 percent of Vista machines, both in the enterprise and home editions, have been...
[August 20, 2008, 12:39]
Vista won't be delayed in Europe
Talkback I have been trying out Vista Beta's this year. Further to this, in Windows Vista, I visited a site and viewed some of the pictures (of Phillipines) contained thereon. Subsequently I was immediately inundated with Spam correctly addressed to the...
[October 14, 2006, 21:38]
Vista 'really good, really' says MS. 'Like we care?' says world
Blog Comment Some of the visual furniture on Vista is very pretty, certainly, and I'm quite aware that my personal attitudes towards the OS are coloured by my frustrations with its performance on the platforms I've had and (especially) its peculiarities with...
[July 9, 2008, 14:58]
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 'really good, really' says MS. 'Like we care?' says world
Blog Comment I spend as much time supporting one vista laptop with their maddening concept of wifi access as the 8 XP and 24 OSX computers in the house, some as old as 7yrs old, still happy churning away. Once again the Redmond behemoth belatedly awakes from it...
[July 9, 2008, 14:43]
Vista 'really good, really' says MS. 'Like we care?' says world
Blog Comment "Vista is sunk". You misspelled junk, because that is what VISTA really is. I've tried VISTA, and found it to be extremely sluggish, slow to the point of irritation, difficult to find items, and a general pain in the arse.
[July 9, 2008, 14:19]
Vista DRM could hide malware
News A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept program that hackers could use to exploit Windows Vista digital rights management processes to hide malware. Alex Ionescu claims to have developed the program — D-Pin Purr v1.0 — that will...
[April 12, 2007, 16:23]
Vista Security: Will it Make a Difference?
White Papers In this five-minute, audio-enhanced presentation Dan Blum, Burton Group Senior VP and Research Director in Security and Risk Management Strategies Service, discusses how Microsoft Vista has improved over XP with higher quality code, better...
[July 18, 2008, 11:22]
VISTA dead in the water.
Blog It looks like the way vista is constructed, and the way Microsoft chose to protect it will kill it. I wonder if this will cause a mass migration away from Microsoft products, because obviously they didn't consider this when building vista.
[August 10, 2008, 9:45]
Vista to XP - Two weeks later
Blog Comment i bought new Asus laptop i also downgraded from Vista Ultimate because the following reasons first the huge disk space then the battery life then the huge ram usage & space eater in Winsxs file in windows directory this in XP have no even 10...
[June 19, 2008, 17:08]
'Vista Capable' suit loses class-action status
News In the latest twist in the long-running court case over Microsoft's 'Vista Capable' marketing program, a judge has decided the matter no longer qualifies as a class-action suit. The dispute centers on whether Microsoft was being deceptive when it...
[February 20, 2009, 10:54]
Vista SP1 Installed, Working OK So Far
Blog The installation of Vista SP1 completed normally on my Lifebook S6510, and it seems to be running normally for the time being. However, Vista is still displaying one symptom that I find irritating, which the other two don't have.
[August 6, 2008, 11:12]
VISTA's 20 mil
Talkback If I had the inclination to leave Linux and move to VISTA I would wait until SP2. I have heard a lot of horror stories about lack of drivers and compatibility issues. My wife has to use XP at work so we have a copy of that and I use it for games...
[March 27, 2007, 21:46]
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]
