Archive for November, 2007

Vista vanquished by XP in performance tests

November 28, 2007

Vista vanquished by XP in performance tests Almost no one has anything good to say about Vista and the beaten and battered operating system is being trounced by its six years older brother, XP.  In a new battery of tests, once and for all, XP is shown to be the performance champion leaving Vista in the dust.

Vista makes top ten list of "terrible tech products"

November 27, 2007

Vista makes top ten list of "terrible tech products" The corporate giant that is Microsoft won’t sleep until we are all running Windows Vista until Windows 7 comes out, too bad it made a list of ten terrible tech products sitting ugly at number 10.  The only saving grace here is that it was not number one.

“Vista capable” lawsuit seeks class-action status

November 27, 2007

“Vista capable” lawsuit seeks class-action statusThe status on whether to certify “Vista capable” suit as a nationwide class-action case is now in the hands of a US federal court after Microsoft filed its official opposition to the request of the plaintiffs for class-action status.

Free Vista Sunday, tune up your PC with Advanced Windows Care

November 25, 2007

Free Vista Sunday, tune up your PC with Advanced Windows Care You finally decided to jump on the Vista bandwagon and after a few weeks or months using it, your PC has become slow and unresponsive to the point that you are about ready to trash it and buy a new one.  Wait, don’t do it, let Iobit come to the rescue with Advanced Windows Care.

Vista requires more memory than super computer version of Windows

November 25, 2007

Vista requires more memory than super computer version of Windows It’s been said that you need a “super computer” to run Vista and now that some new information has come to light, that may not be too far from the truth.

Microsoft wants you to buy Vista, now

November 23, 2007

coffinpc Rather than have 90% of businesses and IT folk wait to deploy Vista, Microsoft would rather have all of them do so now or sooner than later.  That’s not going to happen, besides the cost to upgrade existing hardware, there are migration issues, hardware and software compatibility and the usual ills that come with a Microsoft operating system.

88 million copies of Vista sold

November 22, 2007

88 million copies of Vista sold Leave it to Microsoft to claim that over 88 million copies of its flagship operating system have sold.  Vista might be selling but these days it gets more bad reviews than good but Microsoft knows how to sell a bad product.

IT Pros face more barriers going to Mac OS X or Linux than in Vista

November 20, 2007

IT Pros face more barriers going to Mac, Linux than in VistaWhile Microsoft Vista worries lead some IT pros to consider Mac OS X and Linux as alternatives, they will be facing a different kind of technology barrier should they decide to adopt Mac OS X and Linux instead of Vista.

Vista SP1 performance disappointing

November 20, 2007

rf_vista With the release of Vista pre-RC1 to testers, Microsoft was hoping that it would come through various tests faster than Vista.  This is what the company has been hinting at all along, that Vista SP1 would be the cure all for every performance related issues users have been experiencing in Vista but sadly, that does not look like it will be the case.

Free Vista Sunday, burn CDs and DVDs with CDBurnerXP

November 18, 2007

burn Windows Vista doesn’t come preloaded with a particularly useful CD/DVD burning application.  Of course the industry standard is Nero, it is the best, bar none but some of you may not need all of the features of Nero and a good number of those features can be found in CDBurnerXP.

Vista pushes XP and Linux aside on Asus EeePC

November 16, 2007

eelep The Asus EeePC ships with Linux but with the help of an external DVD drive, it’s possible to install almost any OS of your choice, even Leopard with a bit of hacking but that comes with some legal issues that are discussed in that post.

Vista is the ugly duckling that no one wants

November 15, 2007

Vista is the ugly duckling that no one wants Once upon a time there was a beautiful operating system that no one loved.  It was only pretty on the inside but according to many it was lacking the features promised that could have made it a true star, that operating system, is Vista.

More Vista SP1-related patches coming Tuesday

November 14, 2007

More Vista SP1-related patches coming TuesdayAlthough Vista SP1 isn’t yet available to the public in any form, Microsoft is rolling out some patches to be included in SP1 early because of the plethora of complaints.  Many of them deal with enhancing the reliability and stability of Vista.

Free Vista Sunday, CCleaner fixes registry and deletes junk files

November 11, 2007

CC You were one of the first to buy that copy of Vista, install it and use it and use it and use it without ever thinking about all those junk files and useless registry entries that gum up the system over a period of time.  That’s where a free utility known as CCleaner (aka Crap Cleaner) comes in.

Make Vista shutdown and boot faster

November 11, 2007

Untitled-1 Vista, like its predecessors will be fast when you first boot it and for a few weeks after but like every other version of Windows will get slow, here are some tips to help curtail that but you will still have to do the occasional reinstall to get all your performance back.


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