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Vista, Like In Out In Left Field.
Talkback Its Vista or Xp or nothing. 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...
[November 21, 2007, 18:05]
Status Update, Vista To XP Retreat (Advance?)
Blog It has been two weeks since I switched from Windows Vista back to Windows XP Professional on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, and two months since I made the same switch on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110.
[January 25, 2008, 12:00]
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]
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]
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]
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. The next step, and we've done some of this in Vista, is adding things like certificate lifecycle...
[June 13, 2006, 16:00]
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. Gates: Remote assistance is [in] Windows XP, but...
[March 29, 2006, 14:55]
How Microsoft Can Make Windows 7 A Success
News One of the worst aspects of Windows Vista is that it is almost always slower than its predecessor, XP, when running on the same hardware. The Windows development team has to find a way to streamline Windows 7 so that it's faster and more stable...
[October 28, 2008, 12:03]
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 Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Of those seven, three run XP, one runs Ubuntu 6.06, two are now on Ubuntu 7.10, and one is Vista. That wouldn't be so frustrating, if Vista wasn't so like XP in so many ways that the changes are so obviously change for change's sake.
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
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: 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]
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]
Microsoft: Don't Sell PCs Without Operating Systems
Talkback I've been reasonably satisfied with Windows XP, but with the attitude MS keeps displaying, I may finally dump that too, along with MS Office and any other crap that they come out with - and I've been using their products for the past 15+ years.
[April 5, 2006, 18:45]
We Are Being Force-fed Vista
Talkback To say that workers will demand Vista in the office just because they've used it at home is wishfull thinking; in terms of user experience, there's little difference between the XP and Vista. Its been a year since manufacturers stopped shipping...
[November 30, 2007, 20:29]
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]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now, Office 2007 is being "rescheduled" - "there's no slip in schedule, just a change in delivery" - to match Vista's late launch. I suppose it would be in bad taste to ask how Windows Vienna is doing - the operating system formerly known as...
[March 24, 2006, 16:50]
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]
