Bartercard Disappointed With Vista And Office 07 Betas
News If we did roll out Vista on the new standard operating environment next year, my guys say they would upgrade to it but they'd go back to the XP look and feel," he said. Vista has a different interface to XP, he said, which might be unsettling for...
[July 26, 2006, 16:10]
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]
The Hard Lessons Of Vista
News Windows XP and Windows Vista. The latest delay for Windows Vista highlights a mounting challenge for Microsoft — finding a way to update its most important product on any kind of reasonable schedule. Only with Windows XP did Microsoft finally bring...
[March 23, 2006, 13:10]
Windows 7 On The Apricot Netbook
Blog We happen to have the alpha version in our office - so alpha that it still uses Vista's background - and have heard much about how 7's supposed to be more lightweight than Vista. Anyway, the last thing I wrote about the Apricot netbook was that it...
[November 19, 2008, 10:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now, Office 2007 is being "rescheduled" - "there's no slip in schedule, just a change in delivery" - to match Vista's late launch. I suppose it would be in bad taste to ask how Windows Vienna is doing - the operating system formerly known as...
[March 24, 2006, 16:50]
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]
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. After hours of negotiations with many support reps it turned out that sony has a strict contract with microsoft not to give any other...
[October 22, 2007, 3:25]
Windows Vista Beta 1: Screenshot Gallery
Talkback Same old same old :-( Looks like Windows XP with some of the features of KDE, Gnome and Mac OS X thrown in on top. The sorting of control panel items into groups, erm, doesn't XP do that? I know I can choose photo's as a background for XP (I don't...
[August 22, 2005, 7:19]
