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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]
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]
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]
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]
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. Chairman Bill Gates noted on Tuesday that as...
[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]
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. In the advert, McAfee said that it had not been granted access to central...
[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]
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. Haven't had time to do any performance testing, but subjectively...
[October 23, 2007, 14:20]
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]
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]
2008-01-06 Vista Is A Downgrade.
Talkback Don't *need* another newer version of Windows, such as Vista. But with 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. XP works perfectly totally fine.
[January 6, 2008, 23:41]
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]
Gartner: Ignore Vista Until 2008
Talkback Vista will look a lot prettier than mac os x. Vista doesn't look "prettier" than OSX- which is subjective anyway. 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...
[November 11, 2005, 23:06]
Why Assume Vista Will Be The Way Of The Future?
Talkback Anyone who can use XP is going to find the transition to Vista simple enough - and in any case, most of the skills needed are application, not OS, specific. Money spent on getting Vista into schools will be wasted, for three reasons.
[January 18, 2007, 16:13]
Europe Won't Back Down On Vista
News The Commission has not given a 'green light' to Microsoft to deliver Vista because, as the Commission has consistently stated, Microsoft must shoulder its own responsibilities to ensure that Vista is fully compliant with EC Treaty competition...
[October 16, 2006, 17:20]
