Businesses Focus On Windows 7, XP Over Vista
News Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is still playing second fiddle to XP among business users, with more enterprises investigating the unreleased Windows 7 than its predecessor. More than half (58 percent) of businesses using Microsoft...
[October 2, 2008, 7:37]
Internet Explorer 8 To Get Anti-malware Protection
News Most of the new features require systems to be running Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Windows XP SP3. Using Data Execution Protection (DEP) within Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1, IE8 will scan downloads and block any that it deems...
[July 3, 2008, 10:44]
Biggest Threat To An OS Is Administrative Privileges
Talkback They need to offer a FREE special configuration of IE8 or 9 that operates totally isolated in its own VM and operable on XP Pro, Vista and Windows 7 when its released. That would require that they open up the EULA terms enough to allow a user to...
[November 17, 2008, 7:35]
Ten Tweaks To Love (and Hate) In IE8
Articles This happened on both XP and Vista machines, and many others have told me that it happened to them, too. You can run it on XP and on both the 32- and 64-bit editions of Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.
[September 26, 2008, 15:53]
Users Warn Of Problems With IE8 Beta 2
News For example, Windows Vista users must be running SP1 before installing IE8 Beta 2. In a blog on Wednesday, Microsoft IE developers explain how IE8 users running Windows XP SP3 will not be able to downgrade back to IE7 without uninstalling the...
[August 29, 2008, 9:53]
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2: A First Look review
Reviews Most of the new features require systems to be running Windows Vista SP1 or Windows XP SP3. Finally, site developers can request killbits, code that identifies a particular ActiveX control, from Microsoft which can be sent via Windows Update to...
[August 28, 2008, 8:27]
Vista Struggles To Attract Enterprise Users
News And according to research by Forrester Research, most upgrades were from users of Windows 2000 — which lost around six percent of users — rather than XP, which Vista is intended to replace. Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is taking a...
[April 3, 2008, 8:23]
