Windows Vista News

Windows 7 Already a Threat to Vista Lance Ulanoff - PC Magazine Wed May 28, 6:42 AM ET In case you hadn't noticed, the massive weight of interest has now almost completely shifted from
Microsoft Windows Vista
to the largely vaporware Windows 7.

This is testament to how royally screwed up Microsoft's Vista go-to-market plan has become. On the one hand, it insists that Vista is a huge success, with tons of sold licenses and happy customers. On the other, the company recently offered

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Ballmer: Vista 'Not a Failure and Not a Mistake' Michael Miller - eSeminars Tue May 27, 7:33 PM ET This week, I'm at the
Wall Street Journal
's
D:All Things Digital conference
which began with a conversation between the Journal's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher and

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How To Tame Microsoft Windows Vista's UAC By Serdar Yegulalp
InformationWeek
Tue May 27, 4:00 AM ET
Tighten Up UAC's Control

With all of the discussion I've given here about how to make UAC a little easier to use, I should also throw in a tip that may be useful to those who want UAC to be
more
secure. By default, UAC forces a non-admin user to type in an admin password, but allows an admin user to simply click OK to consent to a UAC action. That said, it's also possible to force UAC to prompt for a password for

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Despite Bill Gates' Comments, Windows 7 Due in 2010 Richard Koman,
newsfactor.com
1 hour, 12 minutes ago This spring, as the technology industry raised ever-louder complaints about
Windows Vista
Bill Gates
amped up expectations for the next version of the operating system, referred to simply as Windows 7. Speaking in Miami in April, the Microsoft chairman said, "Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version," and then went on to extol the virtues of Windows 7, including "the ability to be lower-power, take less memory, be more efficient, and have lots more connections."

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PixelNovel has Released the Windows Version of its Hit Product FlickrShop Tue May 27, 3:05 AM ET PixelNovel has announced the release of the Windows version of FlickrShop, the popular
Adobe Photoshop
plug-in for
uploading photos
straight from Adobe Photoshop to the
Flickr
photo-sharing website.

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PixelNovel has announced the release of the Windows version of FlickrShop, the popular Adobe Photoshop plug-in for uploading photos straight from Adobe Photoshop to the Flickr photo-sharing website. London, UK (
PRWEB
) May 27, 2008 — PixelNovel has released a Windows version of its hit product FlickrShop.

FlickrShop for Windows
FlickrShop
is the only Adobe Photoshop plug-in for uploading images to the Flickr photo sharing website directly from Photoshop. The Mac OS version of this software proved to be a real hit, and due to popular demand, PixelNovel has prepared a version for Windows.

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Are you ready for Windows 7? Randall C. Kennedy 2 hours, 23 minutes ago San Francisco - "Hold the line!" That's the new rallying cry for the core Windows development team. Add new features. Tweak existing ones. But whatever you do, don't make Windows 7 any slower or fatter than Vista."Hold the line!" That's the new rallying cry for the core Windows development team. Add new features. Tweak existing ones. But whatever you do, don't make Windows 7 any slower or fatter than Vista.

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If I try to install my old copy of Office XP in Windows Vista, will I run into any prohibitions or technical problems? Microsoft says every version of its productivity suite since Office 2000 is “supported” in Vista, but Office 2000 and XP won't get any bug-fix updates for problems they experience in Vista. However, multiple readers have told me they've had no issues running Office XP in Vista.

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