Bartercard Disappointed With Vista And Office 07 Betas
News Vista has a different interface to XP, he said, which might be unsettling for some users: "With Vista, the look and feel is a complete departure from XP. If we did roll out Vista on the new standard operating environment next year, my guys say they...
[July 26, 2006, 16:10]
Vista, Like In Out In Left Field.
Talkback Microsoft doesn't really care whether they sell XP at Vista prices or Vista at Vista prices. What most managers don't understand though is that Vista is enough different from XP and certainly Win2K that using a desktop Linux distro is as much of a...
[November 21, 2007, 18:05]
Gates Reassures Businesses
News Although Microsoft announced last week that Vista and Office 2007 would not land on new PCs in time for Christmas the company on Sunday said it is largely on track to deliver new business software. In an interview with ZDNet UK sister site CNET...
[March 29, 2006, 14:55]
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]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If you start to use Vista for any length of time, "you start to hate XP" apparently, and OpenOffice is best considered as an alternative to Microsoft Works "because it's only fair to compare stuff at the same sort of price point".
[September 15, 2006, 18:55]
Microsoft Security Chief Looks Beyond Vista
News For Fathi, the changing of the guard is a perfect time to start looking beyond Windows Vista, the yet-to-be-released successor to Windows XP. I'm going to continue the road that Mike and the team had started on and improve our security post-Vista...
[June 13, 2006, 16:00]
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. With Vista, Microsoft originally hoped to make...
[March 23, 2006, 13:10]
Microsoft 'must Support OpenDocument'
Talkback With my Windows XP and the upcoming Vista plus some more hundred bucks, I am now with the majority of happy users under Microsoft's wing. Why do you hate Microsoft Office so much? Open Office reading Microsoft Office format easy?
[October 9, 2005, 5:00]
Microsoft 'must Support OpenDocument'
Talkback With my Windows XP and the upcoming Vista plus some more hundred bucks, I am now with the majority of happy users under Microsoft's wing. > Why do you hate Microsoft Office so much? Open Office reading Microsoft Office format easy?
[October 9, 2005, 13:11]
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]
Software Jihad
Blog Comment Install WIndows Search 4.0 and Google desktop at the same time on an XP Pro system. Vista was supposed to have a SQL Server sort of engine driving the file system. Imagine how slow Vista would be on a system trying to run SQL queries every time you...
[November 4, 2008, 7:19]
Mozilla Hits Out At Apple's Safari Plans
News Lilly made his comments following Jobs' recent keynote at Apple's worldwide developers' conference, where the Mac maker unveiled a version of the Safari browser that is designed to run on Windows Vista or XP.
[June 18, 2007, 11:21]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment In addition, Vista is a bit buggy in that some of my games no longer work properly (Half-Life 2, etc.and that for some reason it cannot see my second DVD drive (the BIOS recognizes it and XP was able to see it).
[October 22, 2007, 23:27]
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. I know I can choose photo's as a background for XP (I don't it slows everything down) and Linux.
[August 22, 2005, 7:19]
Ya Need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah Buddy. I Got Ya Servicepack3 Right Here!
Blog In other words, we're talking a system that has absolutely nothing installed on it except what Microsoft would call the baseline Windows XP Pro SP2 operating system image. I just finished installing a volume license of Windows XP Pro with...
[June 16, 2008, 6:34]
