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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That's one of the reasons that Windows has been such fertile ground for malware, of course, and one of the things that Vista intends to fix. The worst offender by far is Windows XP: for reasons that thoroughly escape me, I can no longer shut down...
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
How Microsoft Can Make Windows 7 A Success
News The Windows development team has to find a way to streamline Windows 7 so that it's faster and more stable than both XP and Vista, whether it's running on netbooks and nettops with the Atom processor and only 1GB of RAM, or tomorrow's eight-core...
[October 28, 2008, 12:03]
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]
2008-01-06 Vista Is A Downgrade.
Talkback Don't *need* another newer version of Windows, such as Vista. But with Vista? XP works perfectly totally fine. The title bar of every window now looks 1.5 times the height that it was under XP and I can't change it.
[January 6, 2008, 23:41]
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]
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]
2008-01-06 Vista Is An Upgrade - Part 2
Talkback Vista does NOT improve on XP ! There is a whopping load of programs I used to run on a regular basis under XP that no longer work on Vista. Also, everytime I end up in a folder Vista displays a bunch of Columns that I DON'T NEED!
[January 6, 2008, 23:50]
XP SP3 Is Sick Puppy 3, Stupid Patchwork 3, Stupendous Pain-in-the-A__ 3
Blog Worker droid status in the Zombie armies of the Internet is the ultimate fate of all of the 500 to 600 desktop Windows XP computers we use in the oilfield rental fleet. We weren't going to use Vista for damn sure.
[June 21, 2008, 13:54]
Photoshop CS3 review
Reviews Surprisingly, the Mac version ran CS3 significantly faster than Windows; it took more than twice as long under Windows Vista, and I estimate just under twice as long on Windows XP. I extrapolated based on previous tests showing that Photoshop CS2...
[April 30, 2007, 9:08]
Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Although the system came preloaded with Windows Vista Business, the recovery media included both Vista and XP Pro disks, and there was a page included titled "Downgrade Rights for Microsoft Windows Vista Business" which states that the owner has...
[December 27, 2007, 12:15]
Thoughts On Windows Driver Updates
Blog The disadvantage is that if you are not careful, or if one takes you by surprise, you may end up having to "roll back" a device driver update, or to boot from the "last known good configuration", but both XP and Vista are quite good at that, so...
[August 19, 2008, 13:42]
Windows Driver Updates
Blog Because of my recent adventures with Windows Vista on my Lifebook, I've had to learn about and deal with the differences between Vista and XP in third-party device driver distribution and updates. I have seen a number of them included in the...
[May 13, 2008, 12:49]
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]
Vista Vs XP
Blog Comment When they come in with Vista on them, they go out into the rental fleet with XP Pro. So the XP to Vista ratio is 100%. Yes the deal we have allows us to "downgrade" to XP BUT we have to BUY Vista Business to do it.
[July 30, 2008, 12:48]
Vistification - A Temporary Drive To Linux?
Blog Vista is gratuitously different from Windows XP. She's moving from Windows 98, so we thought she might as well go straight to Vista. That's the theory at least - but let's not forget that home users now effectively cannot get Windows XP.
[October 24, 2007, 12:07]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In the same week Microsoft has announced that Vista will shut itself down if not authorised by HQ, it admitted to problems in its Windows Genuine Advantage program already deployed for XP. I don't think Linux is ready to kick Windows off the...
[October 6, 2006, 18:55]
Software Jihad
Blog Considering how well Vista is doing, Windows 7 might be the last opportunity Microsoft has to make a profit off an operating system. His claim is that typical Chinese people can't afford the local retail prices for legitimate Windows XP Pro.
[November 2, 2008, 14:04]
Ten Tweaks To Love (and Hate) In IE8
Articles This happened on both XP and Vista machines, and many others have told me that it happened to them, too. You can run it on XP and on both the 32- and 64-bit editions of Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.
[September 26, 2008, 15:53]
2007-01-06. Vista Is A Downgrade. Part 3.
Talkback But the sound in Vista is ATROCIOUS? Then I'm told by a Vista popup that PowerDVD has compatibility issues and has an update and do I want to install it. You still get popups that say "this program is incompatible with Vista please get the update...
[January 6, 2008, 23:54]
