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]
Windows 7 On The Apricot Netbook
Blog Anyway, the last thing I wrote about the Apricot netbook was that it was no longer available with SUSE Linux, with the "manufacturers" plumping for Windows XP instead. I haven't tried sticking Vista on the Apricot PicoBook Pro - I'm fairly...
[November 19, 2008, 10:31]
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]
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]
OS Scratch Load Times
Blog I've also learned the hard way that it is best not to have the system connected to the internet at that point, because the Vista update process will start, and it competes with the Fujitsu utility, slowing the whole process down a lot more.
[November 20, 2008, 7:59]
Windows Chief Fields Readers' Questions
News XP runs better that way and Vista will continue run better. 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...
[January 30, 2006, 9:35]
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]
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. Not only is it not the status quo when compared to XP but it actually is WORSE !
[January 6, 2008, 23:41]
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. I've been meaning to try VirtualBox, the free x86 virtualisation...
[October 23, 2007, 14:20]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Coders Claim Bypass Of Vista Security Feature
News Many see it as a hindrance to performing everyday tasks, as it requests confirmation for many actions where no user confirmation was needed in Vista's predecessor, XP. The 'architectural redesign' of Vista's security framework isn't so much a...
[April 28, 2008, 15:17]
EU Clashes With Microsoft Over Vista Features
Talkback Vista is no different.ther e will be holes and someone will find them through social engineering or more clever means of making the security system work against its self. Then every Vista system that has the same identical security measures...
[September 28, 2006, 12:01]
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]
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]
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. As you said, there'll be plenty of Vista around the place anyway.
[January 18, 2007, 16:13]
Windows Vista RC1 (build 5564) review
Reviews Microsoft has released Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, but without the big media splash the software giant made back in 2001 with the release of Windows XP RC1. But unlike the release of Windows XP RC1 on July 2 2001, when Microsoft issued a...
[September 4, 2006, 12:00]
