Hasta La Vista for Microsoft Vista in India?January 30th, 2007 In India several households and even companies are looking at PC's in the price range of Rs. 10,000 (~ 227 USD).
Microsoft Vista Final Beta RC2 ReleasedOctober 9th, 2006 Microsoft is making the last trial version (Release Candidate 2) of Vista operating system available to developers and beta testers before it releases the finished product. RC2 version of Vista can only be downloaded by TechNet and Microsoft developer network members.
Microsoft Vista Firewall Defanged by Switching off Outbound Filtering by DefaultApril 29th, 2006 In an interesting move Microsoft decided to turn off outbound filtering of inbuilt Firewall in Vista by default. Outbound filtering for applications will configurable by enterprise administrators through Group Policy.
Core Windows Vista Architect Leaving MicrosoftSeptember 6th, 2006 One of the core architects of Windows Vista is leaving Microsoft weeks after it emerged he would be re-assigned once Vista operating system is launched. Valentine led Windows code engineering for seven years and is joining Amazon as a senior vice president.
Microsoft sends final Windows 7 code to manufacturers, promises smooth transition for PC usersJuly 22nd, 2009 Microsoft says Windows 7 is ready for PC companiesSEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. says Windows 7 is complete.
Apple's Leopard Resembling Vista 2.0 in Unlikely WaysAugust 8th, 2006 Apple touted its new version of operating system Leopard as Vista 2.0. Their marketing gimmick may come back to bite them.
How To Clean Install Vista (Without XP) From Upgrade Version in 7 StepsFebruary 3rd, 2007 Effectively this means that any retail upgrade DVD can be used as a fully functioning full retail copy of Vista. You can pay the price of an upgrade DVD version to get a clean Vista installation! The steps have been confirmed.
Microsoft starts laying off 5000, plans more for futureMay 5th, 2009 Microsoft moves forward on plan to lay off 5,000
SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it is pulling the trigger on thousands of the 5,000 job cuts it announced earlier this year.
Is Vista Secure?January 31st, 2007 Bill Gates claimed that Vista was "dramatically more secure" during an interview with BBC News. He said the improved security in Vista was a reason all by itself to upgrade from Windows XP.
Why Microsoft Vista is Bad & BadVista Good (But FSF Bad)September 11th, 2007 I morally support BadVista campaign in as much as it helps educate people that:
1. Windows Vista is actually a downgrade (from Windows XP or Windows 2000) wherein you are forced to support DRM (for content producers) at your expense (CPU & Memory) forcing you to upgrade your hardware just to get reasonable performance out of Windows Vista (cost analysis).
Buy a Vista, Get a Windows 7 Free!June 26th, 2009 Voila! Microsoft let all the jaw drops with a new announcement on Windows 7. The Redmond company declared today that consumers who buy the Vista PCs before the launch of Windows 7 operating system will get a free upgrade to the new OS - Windows 7.
Windows 7 is FINALLY out for manufacturing, no looking back now!July 23rd, 2009 With so much fuss over Windows 7, Microsoft has officially signed off the OS, releasing it to manufacturing. After having done with the testings and validation checks required for RTM, Microsoft has officially declared build 7600 as RTM.
Top 5 Features of Microsoft Windows 7October 28th, 2008 I have read and read through Gizmodo & Lifehacker's enthusiastic posts to find out what's so great about Windows 7. It appears we were mostly right about the features of Windows 7.
Microsoft to Bring Out Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, TomorrowDecember 2nd, 2008 Microsoft had long announced beta version of the second service pack for Windows Vista and Server 2008 will be out in the market. But in the late October, we didn't see anything like that excepting some private distributions.
Steve Ballmer Admits Vista is a "Work In Progress"April 18th, 2008 More than a year after Windows Vista's release, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and millions of sales later Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer admits Windows Vista to be a "work in progress". Windows Vista: A work in progress.
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January 31st, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Check a few simple things out and if there’s no good reason you can’t switch , you should.
Once you’ve got over the initial problems of finding where things are (mostly characterised by the phrase “It can’t possibly as simple as that can it . . . Oh! is that all you do? Cool!) you won’t regret it.
Really.
Welcome to intuitive computing, where the computer just gets out the way and lets you work the way you want.