Windows Vista News

It’s just around the corner, Microsoft’s next latest and greatest operating system will be coming to a new PC near you.  Windows 7 is claimed to be everything that Vista wasn’t.  A fast booting, sleek operating system which is as reliable as XP came to be.
Yeah.  So far all that is to be seen are a few minor interface changes but no real under the hood modifications have been spotted, yet. 

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I know, I know?you?re wondering why this is in the open source blog. The reason is simple: I have used open source operating systems for a long, long time now. I have championed against Microsoft for over ten years. But when Techrepublic liked the idea of me writing some Vista content for them, I couldn?t say no. Of course this meant me actually using Vista. So I thought it would be interesting for the open source crowd to get my initial reaction to my explorations with Windows Vista. You know, see how (or if) it stands up to Linux. It was a hard pill to swallow for me. It might be a equally as hard for you. Let?s find out. Shall we?

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There’s a bevy of journalists and users alike that are cocked and ready to fire away at Vista any chance they can get, but there’s one underlying variable that almost everyone seems to agree with.  The various distributions of Linux most likely pose the greatest threat to Windows Vista overall- why you ask?
synopsis by Renu Singh of IT Voir
on the subject, pointed out the main reasons Linux has the most fuel to overtake Vista in the long run.  Though it seems obvious, he points out issues regarding security, anti-virus, updating and the sheer cost saving benefits to using any kind of Linux.  Since the days of only one or two operating systems has come and gone, Microsoft has some undeniable trouble on the horizon- it’s really no secret, even to them.  Now that we have such a variety, it really comes down to a few simple aspects- overall cost of deployment in the long-term, and overall security during all aspects of usage.

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The Seinfeld Ads Spiced Up Bill Gates’ Image. Will Future Microsoft Ads Do The Same For Vista?
Posted by: Peter Burrows on September 19
I, like my colleagues
Rob Hof
and
David Kiley
, actually like the new Microsoft ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. They humanize the company—and certainly Gates—in a nice way. Microsoft senior veep Bill Veghte says the spots have been hugely successful as a “conversation starter,” drawing 550 unique impressions.

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, we get a flood of comments from Bits readers. Many write off the software company and Windows as simply so over. Others are long-time fans who feel let down.
But a certain
hardy minority
think that the criticism is overblown and actually like using Vista. It is to them that this post is directed.
Microsoft has released the latest three commercials in
its huge ad campaign
meant to counter all the negative talk about Vista.

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, we get a flood of comments from Bits readers. Many write off the software company and Windows as simply so over. Others are long-time fans who feel let down.
But a certain
hardy minority
think that the criticism is overblown and actually like using Vista. It is to them that this post is directed.
Microsoft has released the latest three commercials in
its huge ad campaign
meant to counter all the negative talk about Vista.

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The tight-lipped Microsoft rarely speaks of problems or a mistake in their product line, but when it comes to Vista, some engineers and Microsoft executives are beginning to come around.  Why are some now saying Vista was "the worst Windows launch in the company’s history," and what are some of the main reason for its troubles?
In an "off-the-record" briefing, an anonymous Windows product manager admitted that Microsoft botched the Vista launch to the extent that it may have undermined users’ faith in the platform completely,

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, but if you’re a bit tired of the current netbook sameness, you might want to consider its new Wedge model, which questionably promises to make a ”
powerful yet subtle statement.” Apparently, you can either take your chances with a one of a kind design like the one above (seemingly from before they settled on the name “Wedge”), or you can shell out some extra bucks for a completely custom design. The netbook’s insides, on the other hand, are considerably more in line with the usual netbook fare, and include a 10-inch display, a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and Windows XP as standard (Vista is apparently also available if you really want to push things). Look for this one to set you back about $500, and no doubt quite a bit more if you want get one to match the paint job on your 1975 Dodge van.

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AMD have launched their Catalyst driver suite again with version 8.9 and Tweak Town have taken a close look at the performance on Windows XP and Vista.
They covered the results over 12 pages and in their final thoughts; they had this to say “On a whole there’s a little bit of movement across the board with the new driver set. We can see under Vantage the HD 4870 seems to have gotten a bit of a boost while in the real world the performance increase was only seen in Crysis

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I am having trouble getting file attachments with the Windows Mail program in Windows Vista. What might be the problem?
A.
The Windows Mail program that comes with the Windows Vista operating system tries to keep your computer safe by blocking certain types of e-mail attachments. These types of files include the .exe, .scr and .pif formats that are often use to spread malicious code.
Microsoft
does not recommend it for security reasons, but you can override this setting and unblock these attachments. Go to the Tools menu and select Options. Click on the Security tab and remove the check in the box next to “Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus” and then click on the O.K. button.

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