Remember that cool concept Bill Gates himself made a big deal two years ago during Vista’s big push, called Xbox Live Anywhere? Most people assumed Anywhere-became-vaporware, with very little news or update released at all for sometime now.

There’s no way around it: the vast majority of consumers and businesses are in a full-on funk as to what to do with Windows. Do they stick with the tried and true Windows XP, grudgingly adopt Vista with the knowledge that Windows 7 might be no better, or play the waiting game for Microsoft’s “apology” OS, Windows 7, hits the market? A Microsoft memo grants these insights: Windows 7 will probably be the embodiment of what Microsoft intended to do with Vista and more, but don’t hold your breath, because you’ll be waiting for Windows 7 until 2010.

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.

Those of you with Palm based handhelds can breathe a sigh of relief, if you are running Vista that is.  Palm has released Palm Desktop Beta for its handhelds, once again enabling you to exchange files and synch it with your computer but this has come at the loss of some functionality.

Days of difficulty finally seem to be over for users of Windows Mobile devices trying to synch with PCs running Windows Vista. Microsoft has launched Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 and claims the newly released software supports better file synching between Windows Mobile devices and computers running Windows Vista.

Users of Windows mobile devices have been complaining that some have not been working correctly under Vista.  The last version of Windows Mobile Device Center, version 6, had problems synching and updating files to Windows Mobile devices when used with Vista.

Microsoft attempted to improve power management for laptops in Vista but they didn’t exactly succeed. Battery life on laptops from most standpoints is much worse on Vista than it would be using XP. One feature of Vista is responsible for this all by itself.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced its new M690 chipset with integrated graphics allowing the use of Windows Vista features such as Areo, Flip and Flip 3D on appropriate versions of the operating system.

High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC), a provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile based smart devices, announced at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Associations (CTIA) the first Windows Vista Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), HTC Shift.