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]
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]
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]
AMD: Vista Does Little For Convergence
News Windows Vista is the successor to Windows XP, scheduled to be broadly available in January. Advances in Windows Vista, such as increased support for high-definition video and new DVD standards, help PC technology in its battle for consumer living...
[May 24, 2006, 12:25]
2008-01-06. Vista Is A Downgrade. Part 4.
Talkback There's one good thing with Vista though: When I installed my VPN for work I used something akin to a Wizzard that was able to connect me almost immediatly and effortlessly whereas in XP I had to go into advanced settings of the TCP/IP entry of...
[January 6, 2008, 23:57]
Microsoft: Vista Is Ready To Ship
News The release of Vista will mark the first fully fledged update to the desktop operating system since Windows XP in 2001. Only about 10 percent of businesses ran Windows XP, Vista's predecessor, a year after its release, according to research firm IDC.
[November 9, 2006, 8:46]
Ten Tweaks To Love (and Hate) In IE8
Articles You can run it on XP and on both the 32- and 64-bit editions of Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. This happened on both XP and Vista machines, and many others have told me that it happened to them, too.
[September 26, 2008, 15:53]
Gartner: Ignore Vista Until 2008
Talkback There is plenty of hardware, by the way, that I have right here beside me that doesn't work in Windows XP so quit lying about "pretty much any hardware". Vista will look a lot prettier than mac os x. Vista doesn't look "prettier" than OSX- which is...
[November 11, 2005, 23:06]
Windows Vista Gets A Mixed Reception
Talkback I think I'll stick with Linux for most of my desktop work, it is faster, easier to use and more flexible than Windows XP and Vista sounds like it is just going to be prettier and slower than what we currently have, whilst trying to play catch up...
[July 25, 2005, 12:04]
All Our Computers Are Belong To Microsoft
Blog Last week, Guardian journalists Charles Arthur and Jack Schofield commented on Microsoft's 'Mohave' experiment, in which die-hard XP users were invited to try a supposedly new version of Windows, then, ta-daa, were told it was actually Vista.
[August 5, 2008, 18:18]
EU Clashes With Microsoft Over Vista Features
Talkback The hardware drivers will have left the first buggy version, as will the software that will have problems with vista. Vista is no different.ther e will be holes and someone will find them through social engineering or more clever means of making...
[September 28, 2006, 12:01]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment So when I asked if I could just remove vista and install my copy of windows XP the answer was a nervous no. I wasn't too concerned about it even if I had already heard of the worries that others had with vista.
[October 22, 2007, 3:25]
Microsoft's Pre-modern Message Puts A New Face On Vista
Blog Comment If I could have gotten that functionality with Vista I wouldn't have minded paying twice as much as XP Pro. One benefit to all of this is that when I shut down WMI, it also shutdown the Firewall AND the Network Interface making the Windows XP Pro...
[July 31, 2008, 9:15]
64-bit PCs Still Searching For Software
News And although Windows Vista is available in 64-bit versions, retail PCs are mostly sold with the 32-bit version of the operating system. The issue with drivers is already less of a gating factor," Goffe said, noting that Microsoft required that, for...
[August 3, 2007, 13:28]
Greens: Vista Means More Dead PCs
News Speaking ahead of the official UK consumer launch of Vista on Tuesday, Derek Wall, Green Party male principal speaker, warned that migrating to the operating system would result in many consumers and businesses having to buy new hardware and bin...
[January 29, 2007, 16:27]
