Windows Vista News

Microsoft Fixes Glitches in IE, Multimedia, Vista Lisa Vaas - eWEEK Tue Dec 11, 4:45 PM ET
Microsoft
's latest monthly patch set tackles critical vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit in the wild to target PC users. Microsoft released seven security bulletins that addressed 11 vulnerabilities on its Dec. 11 Patch Tuesday. Of those, three bulletins containing seven client-side vulnerabilities are rated as critical and affect nearly all major Microsoft operating systems: 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.

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Microsoft says Vista SP1 won’t change much, urges not to hold off on upgrade
By
Jonathan Schlaffer
Microsoft is at it again, trying to convince businesses and some users alike that Vista SP1 does not have that many changes and it is not worth holding off your upgrade.
With its latest claims the company is specifically targeting businesses who have delayed migrating to Vista and are sitting around with good old relibable Windows XP either waiting for the final version of SP1 or just skipping Vista entirely and waiting for Windows 7.

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. He writes that has dutifully used Windows for years “in part because I didn’t want to be one of those journalists who didn’t muck it out with the masses, and in part because Office is the default work tool of my industry and XP had matured to crashing only every second day.”
Shapshak declares Vista a major disaster for Microsoft and backs it up with plenty of merciless barbs. I offer here a few choice excerpts:

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Operating system debate asks: ‘Who do you love?’
Terry Brock
Well, I did it. Yep! This long-time Windows user made the move to "The Dark Side of the Force" yesterday when I cracked open the relatively small box which arrived at my condo. It was packed with my new baby — weighing in at 5.4 pounds — my new MacBook Pro.

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make the final release candidate for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available to the public
some time next week. Although no specific date has been set, next Tuesday is this month’s Patch Tuesday, with a new round of official patches and updates, which seems like a logical release date for Vista SP 1.
The final beta for Vista SP1 is already available to Microsoft Connect members as well as MSDN and TechNet subscribers.

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Windows Vista Users Hit With 'Purple Screen Of Death' By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
Wed Dec 5, 11:32 AM ET While most users of Microsoft Windows-based PCs have seen their systems lockup and display the dreaded 'blue screen of death,' a new, lavender-hued variant of the problem has emerged.

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Microsoft Releases New Windows Server, Vista SP1 Test Code Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service Wed Dec 5, 7:00 PM ET
Microsoft
on Wednesday released new test versions of Windows Server 2008 and
Windows Vista
Service Pack, two highly anticipated technologies that are scheduled to be released early next year.

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Microsoft releases new Windows Server, Vista SP1 test code Elizabeth Montalbano 2 hours, 1 minute ago San Francisco -
Microsoft
released on Wednesday new test versions of Windows Server 2008 and
Windows Vista
Service Pack, two highly anticipated technologies that are scheduled to be released early next year.

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Windows XP SP3 To Include Vista Elements, Researchers Say By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
Tue Dec 4, 1:46 PM ET A forthcoming update to
Microsoft
's Windows XP operating system will include patches that add pieces of
Windows Vista
to the operating system, according to a research group that has seen the code.

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Microsoft to beef up anti-piracy checks in Vista SP1 Elizabeth Montalbano 1 hour, 37 minutes ago San Francisco -
Microsoft
will change the user experience of its automatic anti-piracy checks in
Windows Vista
and also make it harder for hackers to bypass the system in the first service pack for the OS due out early next year.

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