Windows Vista News

With the iPhone sleeping peacefully in stores until tomorrow’s debut, OS X Tiger winning fans long-associated with the Windows camp, and Leopard poising itself for complete domination of a currently feeble next-gen OS showing, Apple is solidifying itself as the champion of consumer hearts in all aspects of life. 2007 is quickly proving itself to be the year that Apple flexes its creative muscle and engrains itself in the hearts and minds of consumers worldwide with its powerful trifecta: the iPod, the iPhone, and OS X.

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Struggling with your new iPhone on a 64-bit Windows Vista or XP system? Take solace, you’re not alone. The error message, “The software required for iPhone is not installed. Run the iTunes installer to remove iTunes, then install iTunes again.” is Apple’s magical way of telling you that iTunes is not supported on 64-bit flavors of Microsoft’s operating systems. Yeah, we agree, they should have listed the incompatibility on the iPhone specs page under Windows System Requirements. Unfortunately for those of you new to Apple software, it’s buried in support article 301301 which states, “iTunes is currently not supported in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or any 64-bit edition of Windows Vista.” Now you know.

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's Windows Vista is not expected to be a strong driver, the analyst firm said this week.

Worldwide mobile PC shipments are forecast to total 103.2 million units in 2007, a 27.1 percent increase from 2006. Meanwhile, desk-based PC shipments are on pace to total 153.9 million units in 2007, up 2.4 percent from last year.
However, Gartner said that Vista has not proven to be the killer application that Microsoft intimated it would.

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Microsoft is simplifying the processes via which its PC-maker partners will be able to provide “downgrade” rights from Windows Vista to Windows XP for their customers.
Microsoft will implement the first of the policy changes for its Gold Certified (top-tier) OEM partners within the next couple of weeks. The company will streamline downgrade-rights policies and procedures for the broader channel somewhat later, said John Ball, general manager of Microsoft’s U.S. Systems Group.

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WASHINGTON —  The judge overseeing Microsoft Corp.’s antitrust settlement said Tuesday she would not immediately address complaints Google Inc. has made about Microsoft’s Windows Vista software.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she would decide later this year whether to consider Google’s request to extend government oversight of Microsoft’s compliance with its 2002 antitrust settlement. That oversight is scheduled to expire in November for most aspects of the agreement.

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Consumers haven’t exactly been clamoring to get their hands on Vista, unless it just happened to come with a computer purchase. Those upgrading their own systems to Vista are few and far between. Microsoft has had, at best, a lukewarm response to the Vista family discount program which will now be coming to an end.
Since Vista became available, US and Canadian customers have had the option of buying either an upgrade or full version of Vista Ultimate and getting two additional copies of Vista Home Premium for $50 each. That comes to $500 for three copies of Vista.

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Microsoft has slowly been releasing pieces of its Windows Live Services over the last year, and on Wednesday a couple more betas hatched onto the web.
Windows Live Photo Gallery
is intended as free upgrade to Vista’s Photo Gallery (it also works on XP) and
Windows Live Folders
is the long awaited “Live Drive” backup storage solution. For now both services are in limited beta test phases.

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, it’s become fashionable of late to refer to Windows Vista as Windows Me2. It’s the second-worst insult you can hurl at a Microsoft program (the worst is to compare it to
Microsoft Bob
, neatly
summarized
as “7th place in PC World Magazine’s list of the
25 worst products of all time
and [named]
worst product of the decade
by CNET.com” in 2005.).
Windows Vista is no Bob, as Steve Ballmer has said publicly,

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Windows Vista Makes Limited Impact On PC Sales, Analysts Reveal By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
Thu Jun 28, 7:21 PM ET
Microsoft Windows Vista
has had "very limited impact" on PC demand or replacement sales since the operating system's release in January, a market research firm said this week.

PC shipments, mobile and desktop, are expected to total 257.1 million units this year, an 11.1% increase over last year shipments of 231.5 million units, Gartner said Wednesday. Windows Vista, however, is contributing little to the projected increase.

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