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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 Only this time, instead of reaching back into my memory banks for information about an old operating system, I find myself really working to adapt what I know about XP's UI by overlaying that information with what I'm seeing and experiencing in...
[January 16, 2006, 14:40]
I Will Blog, Despite Vista's Best Efforts
Blog I thought about blogging about how valuable Windows XP discs are set to become as there is an increasingly widespread opinion that XP is the only Microsoft operating system worth owning because, quite apart from application compatibility issues...
[March 20, 2008, 20:56]
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]
Windows Chief Fields Readers' Questions
News Interestingly, even though XP will be five years old by the time Vista ships (currently scheduled for the end of this year) the questions posted by many readers indicated that they need to be convinced that Vista will be a necessary upgrade.
[January 30, 2006, 9:35]
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]
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]
Symantec: Vista Is Not A Security Solution
News Microsoft says you have to buy Vista because it makes you much safer online than XP, or any of its previous operating systems. Vista is an operating system, and Vista provides some very important advances from Microsoft's perspective and for the...
[February 20, 2007, 11:25]
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]
AMD: Vista Does Little For Convergence
News Windows Vista is the successor to Windows XP, scheduled to be broadly available in January. Certain editions of the new Microsoft operating system will include an update to capabilities found in today's Windows XP Media Center Edition.
[May 24, 2006, 12:25]
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. Currently DebbieToo (a Celeron) and SugarBear (a P3) both boot up faster than Windows...
[October 17, 2008, 3:51]
McAfee And Microsoft Tangle Over Vista Security
News Kernel Patch Protection is not new to Vista; the technology has been shipping for more than three years and is currently available on XP 2003 and for Vista 64-bit shortly. A Microsoft spokesman also denied McAfee's earlier claim that this was the...
[October 3, 2006, 14:20]
Microsoft's Allchin: Vista Won't Need Antivirus
News But in a blog posting on Friday evening, Allchin insisted that the security features in Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system do not negate the need to use third-party antivirus software.
[November 10, 2006, 14:41]
Businesses Have 'no Appetite For Vista'
News Businesses feel a move to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system isn't worth the effort yet, due to compatibility issues and it offering too few benefits over XP. Also, companies don't seem to see much point in using Vista over XP, the OS it...
[November 29, 2007, 7:57]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I suppose it would be in bad taste to ask how Windows Vienna is doing - the operating system formerly known as Blackcomb and the anointed successor to Vista. By now, it's impossible to work out what features from Vista will end up in Vienna, which...
[March 24, 2006, 16:50]
Vista Vs XP
Blog Comment My guess is that if somebody goes and asks DELL what the ratio of XP to Vista sales are, you won't get an answer since I'm sure Microsoft has shut them up. When they come in with Vista on them, they go out into the rental fleet with XP Pro.
[July 30, 2008, 12:48]
Microsoft's Mojave Just A Desert Vista
Blog To some extent, that's because once you've got people on a stable system they understand you leave them there - I'm not going to get my XP'd parents onto Ubuntu either - but it's an indication of how little Microsoft understands the market it...
[August 11, 2008, 8:56]
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]
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]
