Adobe plans to release an updated printer driver for their PostScript language in July. This comes half a year after Vista released. The default driver on computers running Vista can’t print advanced effects like transparencies and gradients when dealing with PostScript documents.
Microsoft released what they called a “fix†to prevent this very thing from happening but it didn’t take on some systems and the problem persisted. The problem revolves around what Microsoft calls the “svchost/msi†issue in which svchost.exe and its various processes will use 100% of the processor during update scans or downloads.
SanDisk has joined forces with Microsoft to deliver a next-generation software and hardware platform, which will allow application programs stored on USB flash drives and flash memory cards to be easily accessed on Windows XP and Windows Vista based computers.
Legal action threatens the production and sales of Vista, iTunes and iPod, with Media Rights Technologies (MRT) sending cease-and-desist letters to Microsoft and Apple, accusing them of not using its technology.
Hackers are always finding new ways of compromising system security by hiding files in just about every file type possible but this is a relatively new concept which shows the increasing “intelligence†of the hacking community. Malware can now be delivered to an already compromised system through the use of the Background Intelligent Transfer service (BITS) which is a component of Windows Update. Is nothing sacred?
Microsoft has confirmed that the company is not delivering security updates to users still running prerelease copies of Windows Vista via Windows Update, including the recently released critical patches for Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).
A Russian teacher has been fined $194 for using pirated copies of Windows and Office on no less than 12 classroom computers. He claims that he did not know the computers had pirated software installed when he took delivery. They never do.
Microsoft’s Windows Vista team has announced a fix for the “Eject†problems that have plagued the iPod-Vista experience.
But it depends on the game. It has been no secret that games have been performing slightly worse under Vista than the same games do on XP. Some of these games have not seen updates in several months, for some the last update was before Vista released. Not all games were affected in the same way and the drop in performance is completely dependent on the game being played.
The deployment of Windows Vista among organizations is slowly gaining momentum, with 87 percent of the responding IT decision makers are starting to evaluate and deploy Windows Vista despite concern over perceived performance, patching and the operating system’s hardware requirements, according to a recent study.
This really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Microsoft touts Vista as the most secure version of Windows yet, find a news article about Vista and chances are the very same thing has been said thousands of times over. Saying it is the most secure version of Windows isn’t really saying much at all.
PC-TV tuners will experience fast growth and the introduction of Windows Vista will likely give the market a boost, according to the research firm In-Stat. Initiatives made by Microsoft along with several other factors are stimulating the growth of PC-TV tuners.
Vista can do some pretty ridiculous things but this is one that really got to me recently. I transferred Vista to a new hard drive and the only thing I thought that caused was some activation problems. I was wrong.
Best Buy was one of the first retailers in the US to have Vista demo stations where anyone could walk up and check out Vista. All, if not most of these stations had Vista Home Premium or higher to show off Aero Glass, DVD authoring and other features that are not available in Home Basic which I still contend is useless.
Windows Vista users should be watchful for the possible variant of the so called Trojan.Kardphisher, a Trojan that poses as a Windows activation program to dupe users into entering credit card information.
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