Posted January 9th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
Sales of the Vista operating system have hit the 100 million-mark, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Sunday night at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in what is expected to be his last keynote address.
Microsoft has not broken down what percentage of those sales were from enterprise customers but the company said [...]
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Posted October 5th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Four separate updates improve Vista’s speed, stability, compatability, and reliability, though Microsoft says the ‘incremental’ fixes are independent from the SP1 update.
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Posted October 1st, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we’ve all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again [...]
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Posted September 18th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
That said, there are some stand-out improvements on Vista over Windows XP. Nothing on my list is particularly new; Microsoft marketing and a zillion reviews have covered them. These features happen to be what move me most about Windows Vista, having used the operating system for more than 18 months.
1. Search…
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Posted August 27th, 2007 by Evgeny Stefanenko
This tools allows you to add your own information and box-art to the Game Explorer in Windows Vista.
Link to page to Vista Game Explorer Editor
Disrect link to file VGEEBeta2.08.zip
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Posted July 18th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Consumers have lived with Vista for six months, and by now many are well familiar with the OS’s warts. Some of the software’s biggest features, like better security, come hand-in-hand with its shortcomings, like irritating pop-ups that constantly inform the user of status. Consumers are also complaining about how many applications and peripherals are incompatible [...]
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Posted July 10th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
It’s official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft.
Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end — the company is set to deliver Beta 1 [...]
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