Windows Vista News

as an option for an installed computer-operating system on its PCs. Then, in response to popular demand, the computer maker begins
selling Ubuntu Linux
as an installable option instead of Windows at all.
Then, in the midst of Microsoft shelling out half a billion to market and promote Windows Vista, the computer maker patches together what appears to be a slapstick promotional gadget to “entice” new Dell customers to see how Windows Vista is a superior operating system. After

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Starting today, humans, elves, dwarves and trolls can join the cross-platform revolution with Shadowrun at the estimated retail price of $59.99 (U.S.) for Xbox 360 and $49.99 (U.S.) for Windows Vista. Shadowrun is rated M for Mature by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB). Shadowrun is also part of the Games for Windows initiative, offering reliability, compatibility and enhanced experiences on Windows Vista.

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Latest version of WinRAR adds Vista compatibility and makes this leading compression software ready for Windows Vista.

Bremen, Germany (PRWEB) May 30, 2007 — win.rar GmbH, publisher for RARLAB software, are proud to announce the final version of the new WinRAR 3.70. WinRAR 3.70 has been in beta for a while now and with this latest release, win.rar GmbH plans to go live with it's Vista compatible version today. The new version WinRAR 3.70 contains important new features, general improvements and can now be used for Windows Vista, the newest operating system.

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OKEMOS, Mich., BUSINESS WIRE — TechSmith Corp., the world's leading provider of screen capture and recording solutions, today announced the latest update to Camtasia Studio has earned the “Works with”
Windows Vista
logo. Camtasia Studio enables individuals with no programming or multimedia expertise to create screencasts for software demonstrations, interactive training, online marketing content, and

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Last week, Microsoft issued a somewhat cryptic press release stating that it was delaying the release of the Windows Vista version of its popular Halo 2 game. In the gaming community, which tracks product release dates and console sales figures the way baseball fans track home runs and ERAs, the rumors quickly spread that the delay was due to the discovery of partial nudity in the game.
It did not take long for the rumors to be confirmed and, of course, for a copy of the illicit image to make an appearance on the Web. The search was launched by the gaming site Kotaku, which offered a "[g]old star to the first tipster to present us with in-game pics of the offending dangly bits."

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Even though Windows Vista has been out since January (or November, if you’re a business customer), there are still products and applications — including some from Microsoft itself — that don’t work with Vista.
The latest case in point: Windows Mobile 6.0. Users running Windows Vista PCs and WIindows Mobile 6.0 devices who have been
attempting to sync their files using Vista’s Windows Mobile Device Center

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IRVINE, Calif., May 29 /PRNewswire/ — Early adopters of Vista no longer have to stock up on CDs or external hard drives to transfer data to their new PCs thanks to IOGEAR’s Smartlink Transfer Cable for Windows Vista.
Designed to work with Windows Easy Transfer, a new feature on the Vista Operating System, the product sends files, music, pictures as well as settings from Windows XP computers to another PC running Windows Vista through a USB connection. An ideal solution for Windows users that don’t want to lose documents or spend a large amount of time copying them to intermediary storage devices, the Smartlink Cable supports transfer rates up to 480 Mbps.

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When you consider that Microsoft has poured half a billion dollars into the marketing of Windows Vista, you’d expect that the OEMs would be able to put together a credible campaign for the new OS. 
Long Zheng
discovers a link to a video on the Dell website which could hardly be called professional (YouTube link
here
).  I have to warn you though, it’s pretty grim.
I was actually looking around for the new

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Vista is not Longhorn, it’s more of a cousin to it since it is missing some features that were present in Longhorn. Longhorn is back and better than ever, complete with restored WinFS functionality, Aero Glass and the default sidebar that we all know and love.
According to
Softpedia
, Longhorn was going to sit in Vista’s spot but it had trouble booting on most desktops, this problem has been fixed.

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. It was a pen-and-paper role-playing-game (RPG) set in a dark future after magic and mystical races had returned to the world.
In this bold new world, magic existed with cyber-technology. Players could create and adventure with cyberware-augmented human or troll heroes (who had their skeletons enhanced with nano-bots or weapons built right into their bodies) or with magic-wielders elven, human, or other race capable of laying waste to people and building.

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