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Microsoft Tells Businesses: It's Time For Vista
News Microsoft on Wednesday released a white paper targeted at the many businesses that have chosen to stick with Windows XP instead of moving to Vista. Compared with Windows XP, Vista has had fewer vulnerabilities (45 for Vista versus 56 for XP); fewer...
[June 5, 2008, 13:04]
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]
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]
Windows Vista's New Security Features review
Reviews IE 7 for Vista (as opposed to IE 7 for XP SP2, which will be released first) will operate in a restricted mode as well. It seems that every time I sit down with Microsoft to discuss Windows Vista, something has been changed or added, which is good.
[October 3, 2005, 0:00]
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]
Status Update, Vista To XP Retreat (Advance?)
Blog Comment Look at how many people, and business, are still running Windows 2000, and there were compelling reasons and advantages in upgrading to XP; without any such obvious advantages in upgrading to Vista, the percentage who "stay behind" is likely to be...
[January 28, 2008, 7:11]
SAMBA, Microsoft And The Real Issue
Blog If you want proof of that statement, look at Vista, look at XP etc. Its called Windows XP Embedded. The majority of corporate users using Windows are using XP and Win2K still. Talk about Vista SP1 began almost immediately after the release.
[December 29, 2007, 15:59]
Ballmer: It's OK To Skip Vista, Wait For Windows 7
News Speaking on Thursday at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando, Florida, Ballmer defended Vista and noted that "the adoption rate of Vista is two times faster than XP at two years in". Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has said he...
[October 17, 2008, 9:00]
Everything
Talkback Sure they start with Vista but how long is that going to stay installed. Reaching for XP install disc. Vista is for losers. I will wait till Windows 7 when M$ will have learnt from this monumental ****up.
[May 21, 2008, 11:54]
Why You Should Care About Vista
News And, more than five years after the debut of Windows XP, Vista is finally ready — at least, for businesses willing to buy at least five copies of the operating system. It offers those who buy an XP machine now a free or discounted copy of Vista...
[November 30, 2006, 7:43]
Microsoft Replaces OneCare With Free Product
News Windows Live OneCare will continue to be sold for Windows XP and Vista via retailers until 30 June, 2009, and direct sales will be gradually phased out as Morro becomes available. Morro, which will be available for download over the internet, will...
[November 19, 2008, 7:35]
Ballmer: Vista Needs A Bigger Marketing Budget
News According to Ballmer, Windows is the company's biggest growth opportunity, which could, according to an analyst, be because large companies still prefer XP to Vista. Microsoft's Ballmer also hinted at progress on Vista's successor — Windows 7 — but...
[February 5, 2008, 9:02]
Spoke Too Soon About XP SP3?
Blog Comment Incidentally, I only installed XP Pro SP2 on 23rd December as a downgrade from Vista Home Premium. In conclusion, It appears that if I wish to Install XP SP3 at any time in the future, I will have to do a clean install unless MS can fix whatever...
[February 21, 2008, 23:52]
Gartner: Windows Collapsing Under Own Weight
News Silver said he recommends that IT executives do use Vista, but on an attrition basis, so that, as PCs with Windows XP are retired, they are replaced with PCs running Vista. Silver added that clients have asked Gartner whether they should skip Vista...
[April 11, 2008, 12:48]
IDF - More To Come
Blog Meanwhile, just a quickie: you may recall a prediction that Microsoft's mis-steps over Vista, XP and the suddenly fashionable low-end portable PC market would lead to the company giving off contradictory signals about Windows 7 all over the place...
[April 7, 2008, 10:06]
Trust
Talkback Vista being a point in fact developers could show off their skill but no one really wanted a system that handicapped their hardware nor do they want to have to ditch underpowered systems just because developers on their state of the art desktop...
[December 15, 2008, 7:09]
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]
Vista 'really Good, Really' Says MS. 'Like We Care?' Says World
Blog Comment It doesn't do anything of significance that XP can't do; it doesn't support any device or technology that XP doesn't support; there isn't any "killer" Vista-only app that everyone thinks they must have.
[July 9, 2008, 9:33]
On Safari With Steve Jobs At WWDC
Blog Most of the keynote was spent unveiling new features coming with Leopard in the autumn - good features, fun features, even (if you compare them with Vista) great features, but you had to be prepared to stifle the still small voice going "oh, more...
[June 11, 2007, 22:26]
Firefox 'not Being Aggressive Enough'
News Microsoft's recent decision to push out IE 7 as an automatic update for Windows XP users has drawn criticism from security experts, who have called the product "bloated" and have recommended rival browsers such as Firefox or Opera as safer, more...
[August 3, 2006, 11:50]
