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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]
Gates Reassures Businesses
News Microsoft did a lot of work to combine the consumer and business versions of Windows into one code base with Windows XP, and most people find it a lot more stable. Although Microsoft announced last week that Vista and Office 2007 would not land on...
[March 29, 2006, 14:55]
Five Things You'll Love (and Hate) About Windows Vista review
Reviews But based on what I've seen after living with Windows Vista beta 2 for a while, here are five things I think you'll like about the new operating system -- some of which might persuade certain fence-sitters to upgrade -- and five things that may...
[June 16, 2006, 9:35]
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]
Vista Vs XP
Blog Comment Yes the deal we have allows us to "downgrade" to XP BUT we have to BUY Vista Business to do it. 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.
[July 30, 2008, 12:48]
Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009 CTP#1 & CTP#2
Blog them that Windows XP Embedded was finally going to get IE7 in component form, the MS marketing nimrods got into the mix and decided to change the name of the product AND take the previously promised but canceled FP2008 and turn it into Windows XP...
[August 14, 2008, 1:58]
Do We Need A Campaign To Save XP?
Blog The XP-to-Vista transition is a pretty clear example of the way proprietary operatings fail users. Moving people on, is obviously in Microsoft's interest, as more new PCs, mean more profits (though we've seen elsewhere that in many circumstances...
[January 15, 2008, 11:51]
Vista Service Pack 1 (RC1 Refresh) Upgrade
Blog Vista has been slammed by business users and gamers alike for bringing their systems to their knees or at least noticeably reducing speed with some apps and games compared to XP. Most of the complaints I've read about on the SP1 forums are from...
[January 15, 2008, 15:42]
Software Jihad
Blog If I was a stockholder in Microsoft (and I'm not) I would hammer on Steve Ballmer to institute a world-wide campaign to extract every dollar possible from Windows XP before Windows 7 of 9 (or 7 of 10, whenever) comes out.
[November 2, 2008, 14:04]
Vista, Like In Out In Left Field.
Talkback 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 change for the users as going to Linux. Its Vista or Xp or nothing.
[November 21, 2007, 18:05]
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. Coming off a good quarter for Symantec's consumer businesses, chief executive John Thompson warns against viewing Windows...
[February 20, 2007, 11:25]
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]
A Tale Of Two Vista Systems
Blog I've upgraded two systems to Windows Vista over the past few months, with vastly different results. Then I bunged Vista Business on it, instantly rendering it unusably slow (don't try Vista with less than 1GB of RAM, it's not worth it), and running...
[August 22, 2007, 10:10]
Vistification - A Temporary Drive To Linux?
Blog Vista is gratuitously different from Windows XP. My mother just bought a Dell - Vista was the only OS on offer (at least without her trying to find anything tricky through the business section of the site).
[October 24, 2007, 12:07]
2008-01-06 Vista Is An Upgrade - Part 2
Talkback There is a whopping load of programs I used to run on a regular basis under XP that no longer work on Vista. Vista does NOT improve on XP ! I'm trying to give real life examples of totally absurd, crazy, useless meaningless stuff that Vista is...
[January 6, 2008, 23:50]
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]
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]
Vista Memory Leak?
Blog I've been running Vista Business on my Lifebook S6510 for several weeks now, and overall I'm pleased - at least pleased enough to keep it this time, rather than retreating to XP Pro again. When I boot Vista, once everything settles down it shows...
[April 17, 2008, 13:39]
We Are Being Force-fed Vista
Talkback Its been a year since manufacturers stopped shipping brand new computers with Windows XP pre-installed, am not sure whether this is forced onto them by Microsoft but had they made it optional for consumers to choose between Vista and XP upon...
[November 30, 2007, 20:29]
Do We Need A Campaign To Save XP?
Blog Comment Now most games (exclusing Microsoft ones of course) and software is being released on both platforms (XP and Vista), so the drive to upgrade isn't as big as it used to be. Most users want to feel comfortable in using their PC, It may have taken...
[January 16, 2008, 14:52]
