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Windows Vista - Here I Go Again!
Blog First, installing the Vista updates which were released while I was running XP; then a couple of driver updates. So, after reading all of the recent posts about Vista SP1 being available "Real Soon Now" (which made me aware that there are some...
[February 19, 2008, 13:02]
Vista Vs Ubuntu: This Time, It's Virtual
Blog Of course, I can't just put a Windows OS on my Ubuntu machinery - don't have an unused Genuine Windows Advantage XP or Vista, and to reuse anything would be against the licence. I've been meaning to try VirtualBox, the free x86 virtualisation...
[October 23, 2007, 14:20]
The Windows Vista Timeline
News As I began planning this edition of the Windows Vista Report, I began to look back at how long we've been anticipating Windows XP's successor and came to the conclusion that it goes all the way back to 2001.
[May 19, 2006, 13:20]
Learning How To Interface With Vista
News I'm very.For more, click here.familiar with the list commands that appear on these context menus in Windows XP and had a major UI Shock the first time that I accessed the context menu on the Windows Vista desktop.
[January 16, 2006, 14:40]
Vista Upgrades: A Case Of Technology Hobbled By Business Models?
Blog Comment Quote: "You can upgrade from your current edition of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000 to a corresponding or better edition of Windows Vista by purchasing and installing an upgrade copy of Windows Vista .
[February 8, 2007, 11:17]
Five Things You'll Love (and Hate) About Windows Vista review
Reviews But based on what I've seen after living with Windows Vista beta 2 for a while, here are five things I think you'll like about the new operating system -- some of which might persuade certain fence-sitters to upgrade -- and five things that may...
[June 16, 2006, 9:35]
Marketing Mush
Blog I was a little dismayed to see that they think the best way to use Windows (any version back to and including XP) is to have the system come up from "sleep" mode. I was also dismayed that most of the discussion seemed to be centered on Vista and...
[October 17, 2008, 3:51]
Vista Service Pack 1 (RC1 Refresh) Upgrade
Blog Vista has been slammed by business users and gamers alike for bringing their systems to their knees or at least noticeably reducing speed with some apps and games compared to XP. One thing you will notice is that it now says Windows Vista...
[January 15, 2008, 15:42]
Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Although the system came preloaded with Windows Vista Business, the recovery media included both Vista and XP Pro disks, and there was a page included titled "Downgrade Rights for Microsoft Windows Vista Business" which states that the owner has...
[December 27, 2007, 12:15]
Photoshop CS3 review
Reviews Surprisingly, the Mac version ran CS3 significantly faster than Windows; it took more than twice as long under Windows Vista, and I estimate just under twice as long on Windows XP. I extrapolated based on previous tests showing that Photoshop CS2...
[April 30, 2007, 9:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The worst offender by far is Windows XP: for reasons that thoroughly escape me, I can no longer shut down my laptop or my server without going through an entire morass of little clickies. That's one of the reasons that Windows has been such fertile...
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009 CTP#1 & CTP#2
Blog them that Windows XP Embedded was finally going to get IE7 in component form, the MS marketing nimrods got into the mix and decided to change the name of the product AND take the previously promised but canceled FP2008 and turn it into Windows XP...
[August 14, 2008, 1:58]
Vista, Like In Out In Left Field.
Talkback What most managers don't understand though is that Vista is enough different from XP and certainly Win2K that using a desktop Linux distro is as much of a change for the users as going to Linux. Its Vista or Xp or nothing.
[November 21, 2007, 18:05]
Windows Driver Updates
Blog Because of my recent adventures with Windows Vista on my Lifebook, I've had to learn about and deal with the differences between Vista and XP in third-party device driver distribution and updates. I have seen a number of them included in the...
[May 13, 2008, 12:49]
Gates Reassures Businesses
News And so what we've been able to do in Vista is take the search enhanced file system and get a lot out of that. Microsoft did a lot of work to combine the consumer and business versions of Windows into one code base with Windows XP, and most people...
[March 29, 2006, 14:55]
How Microsoft Can Make Windows 7 A Success
News One of the worst aspects of Windows Vista is that it is almost always slower than its predecessor, XP, when running on the same hardware. The Windows development team has to find a way to streamline Windows 7 so that it's faster and more stable...
[October 28, 2008, 12:03]
A Tale Of Two Vista Systems
Blog I've upgraded two systems to Windows Vista over the past few months, with vastly different results. Then I bunged Vista Business on it, instantly rendering it unusably slow (don't try Vista with less than 1GB of RAM, it's not worth it), and running...
[August 22, 2007, 10:10]
2008-01-06 Vista Is A Downgrade.
Talkback Don't *need* another newer version of Windows, such as Vista. The title bar of every window now looks 1.5 times the height that it was under XP and I can't change it. for some unexplicable reason so that if you need to go back there later you have...
[January 6, 2008, 23:41]
Software Jihad
Blog If I was a stockholder in Microsoft (and I'm not) I would hammer on Steve Ballmer to institute a world-wide campaign to extract every dollar possible from Windows XP before Windows 7 of 9 (or 7 of 10, whenever) comes out.
[November 2, 2008, 14:04]
Status Update, Vista To XP Retreat (Advance?)
Blog It has been two weeks since I switched from Windows Vista back to Windows XP Professional on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, and two months since I made the same switch on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110.
[January 25, 2008, 12:00]
