As the online community mourns the official death of XP, one site is already preparing for Vista making way to Windows 7.

At a wedding the bride is supposed to have something old, something borrowed, something new and something blue and a silver sixpence in her shoe.  All of that for good luck.  Vista is just old(er) operating systems with a shiny new face on it.

This doesn’t necessarily affect all Vista users and it seems primarily targeted at users of Asus laptops.  However, it may expand beyond that but I cannot be certain.  If this problem has cropped up on your Asus laptop here’s a relatively easy fix for it.

An apparent international misunderstanding has led to the Fiji government attacking Microsoft. But thankfully for the departing Bill Gates, he’s receiving a missive rather than a missile.

Vista sucks, it doesn’t suck, wait a minute, it does.  This is a never ending cycle and we may never come to an agreement.  There will always be someone who doesn’t like it and there will always be someone who does.

Microsoft has written an open letter to customers updating them on the transition from XP to Vista, and the eventual introduction of Windows 7. The company’s key claims are that Vista is more secure than XP, Service Pack 1 has made file management much quicker, and compatibility problems are fading away.

Vista has received a less than lukewarm reception by the masses.  One would think that Intel would adopt Microsoft’s latest operating system for its own operations.  This has not happened and is likely to never happen.

There’s plenty of talk about a report which appears to show software developers are targeting XP ahead of Vista by a wide margin. But the claims are heavily flawed by a misunderstanding about how developers work.

If you have been disappointed with Vista’s performance on your brand new dual or quad-core PC then this may help.  The default settings for Vista have it boot using just one processor core.  Using both or all four cores may help speed things along.

Dell is listening to its customers and will continue to sell Windows XP for a few more days.  To this point Microsoft has said little about the demand for XP.  The company may now have no choice but to continue Windows XP and Vista side by side for a while.

Microsoft is wishing that XP would just die and consumers would embrace Vista.  This has not happened and the company is discontinuing Vista come the end of this month.  Or is it?

Would you believe that Windows Vista may now be as reliable as XP was or still is?  I didn’t think so.  My experience with Vista has been one of reliability when preinstalled by an OEM but this is not the majority consensus.

As Microsoft resides in the transitional phase between Windows Vista and Windows 7, the government doesn’t plan on letting pressure off the software giant. With anti-trust violations a serious concern as development of Windows 7 continues, the government is making sure Microsoft doesn’t try to pull any swift ones on the industry.

Either love or hate UAC, it’s a part of Vista and we all have to live with it.  Some users get so annoyed with it that they turn it off and others just leave it on.  UAC is enabled by default in Vista but a minority of users (myself included) are so put out with it that we turn it off.

Some would argue that Vista is the downgrade and XP is the operating system to stick with.  Whatever you may believe doesn’t matter because Dell is now charging $50 extra if you want Windows XP.