Windows Vista News

Forrester: Good News For Microsoft Office, Mixed News For Windows Vista By J. Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek
Thu Aug 16, 4:50 PM ET When Windows Vista and Office 2007 were released earlier this year,
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
called it the most significant launch wave in the company's history. New research from Forrester Research shows that while businesses remain wary of Vista, early adopters of Office 2007 are seeing noticeable improvements.

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Peter Gutmann - A security researcher at the University of Auckland New Zealand - has become one of the most cited “experts” on the evils of Vista DRM despite the fact that he never touched the Operating System at the time he wrote “
A cost analysis of Vista content protection
” (which he has since modified several times).  He’s cited by a number of folks like security researcher Bruce Schneier and has appeared on Steve Gibson’s podcast raising concerns about Windows Vista DRM.  There’s just one little problem: Gutmann’s theories are unsubstantiated and they’re all wrong.

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Aug. 13
/PRNewswire/ — The
Linux
PC just became user friendly and compatible with Windows, Mac and most smartphones making it an attractive alternative for businesses and consumers to Windows and Mac.

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Windows Vista Capable Lawsuit Continues Peter Galli - eWEEK Thu Aug 9, 2:14 PM ET
Microsoft
has lost the first round in a legal battle over whether its
Windows Vista Capable
and Express Upgrade programs were deceptive and led consumers to buy PCs that could only run the most basic version of the operating system.

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How misleading was the “Windows Vista Capable” campaign that Microsoft ran during the run-up to the January release of the operating system?  Seems that it was misleading enough for a judge to
approve a federal trial for the class action suit
.  The trial is scheduled for October.
Some background.  Two Windows XP PC buyers, Dianne Kelley and Kenneth Hansen, filed a class action lawsuit in March claiming that Microsoft used “bait and switch” tricks to sell XP systems labeled as “Windows Vista Capable” which, as it turned out, could only run the lowest, most cut-down version of Vista - Home Basic.  Home Basic meant no media center support and no Aero.  Microsoft had asked that the case be dismissed; the judge decided that the case should proceed.

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It may not be a full-fledged service pack, but at least it’s something. Microsoft has reportedly released two set of Vista fixes that have been designed to address a number of bugs. They also take care of general performance issues that obviously the company can’t wait for the official Service Pack 1 to be rolled out.
Microsoft has made these two Vista Patches available on its Windows Vista Web site, but the company has not made them available via the Windows Update process.

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Judge Says 'Windows Vista Capable' Lawsuit Can Proceed By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
Wed Aug 8, 2:00 PM ET A federal judge has ruled that two consumers can proceed with a lawsuit that claims
Microsoft
's "
Windows Vista Capable
" campaign was misleading.

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Microsoft has officially released two “hot fix” updates for Windows Vista which address a number of issues in the new operating system. While these don’t yet constitute a true service pack release, they are expected to be included in the as-yet-unannounced Vista SP1 expected sometime later this year.
Though both of today’s releases been floating around in unauthorized form for a week now, the

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) said on Tuesday it has decided to expand sales of consumer personal computers loaded with the Linux operating system to the United Kingdom, France, Germany and China.
The world’s No. 2 PC maker started selling Ubuntu Linux PCs to consumers in May in a program that was limited to the United States. Ubuntu is a free version of the software.
Linux software, the main rival to Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O:

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