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Microsoft Vista is going down in flames

We reported earlier companies such as Alaska Airlines were considering skipping Vista, now more businesses have publicly announced they maybe skipping Vista altogether and sticking with XP. One of them-General Motors recently announced their concerns for Vista, possibly the largest client to publicly express their views yet.

The news just seem to get worse daily for Vista, with recent studies criticizing Vista’s security, slow adoption rate, and now major businesses who have considered forgoing Vista all together. According to Extreme Tech, General Motors gave the primary reasons for their concerns were stiff hardware requirements, compatibility issues with third [...]

How to hide desktop icons in 64-bit Vista

I’ve talked about Iconoid in the past but it hasn’t yet been ported to work on 64-bit versions of Windows. There is still a way you can hide the icons on your 64-bit Vista installation.

Iconoid has not been ported by its creators to work on 64-bit Vista but it has been ported by a third party. Its developers warn you that it may not be stable and provide other cautions before using it but it works.

The regular version of Iconoid, which is for all 32-bit versions of Windows will not function correctly on 64-bit Vista. It will either not start or [...]

Businesses refuse to adopt Windows Vista

Perhaps one of the largest factors to Vista’s success or failure is whether or not companies choose to adopt the new Windows Vista operating system, stick with the tried and true XP, or hold off until Windows 7. It would seem that businesses don’t see any perks to adopting Vista, which doesn’t bode well for Microsoft.

A recent article in Business Week unveils the true perspectives large businesses and corporations have on adopting Microsoft’s newest Windows operating system. For the CIO of Alaska Airlines, upgrading to Vista just isn’t smart. He said, [...]

Google will pass profits of Microsoft Windows in 2009

Everything is swell when you’re a monopoly; you have the run of your playground, and plenty of minions to look up to you. In Microsoft’s case, Google is the monopoly running an adjacent playground, and threatening to come over and take control, because Google will be more profitable than Microsoft Windows within one year.

According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Google’s search engine alone will become more profitable than Microsoft Windows by 2009. Though SAI compares them as similar monopolies, there are a few distinctions:

With Vista not [...]

Microsoft Windows 7 maybe less of a hardware hog than Vista

Vista a resource hungry operating system that could cause your system to crawl when running heavy duty applications may get kicked to the curb once Windows 7 arrives. Yes, you heard it right according to Bill Gates they plan on making Windows 7 much more efficient.

Some of you may have seen me vent about the stiff hardware requirements Vista imposes, and this is a serious problem if Microsoft expects users to migrate to the latest operating system without having to shell out for a new computer. The problem is so widespread there are [...]

Microsoft’s goals for Windows 7 revealed, but you won’t touch it until 2010

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 [...]

Windows XP SP3 follows Vista SP1, causes endless reboots

With early betas and RC versions of Vista SP1 some users saw their systems go into endless reboot cycles and now the same thing is happening with certain systems that are upgraded to Windows XP SP3.

An issue has cropped up that seems to affect systems using AMD processors and OEM XP images as well as systems using certain AMD motherboards. Microsoft says it is looking into the situation and will report back when it has an exact cause and solution; don’t hold your breath.

According to BetaNews the issue could also affect Intel systems since manufacturers often use the same [...]

Windows Vista fails to win over gamers

DirectX 10 was supposed to be the "holy grail" of Vista that would bring gamers in by the droves but this did not happen. It seems some marginal gains in effects isn’t enough to overcome the headaches of Vista.

Things do look better when rendered in DirectX 10 but its hard to say that its ugly when looking at it in DirectX 9 only. Gamers typically have the best systems with the fastest hardware and don’t have the usual problems other users might face when upgrading to a new, demanding operating system like Vista.

According to Yahoo, statistics from Valve show only that [...]

Microsoft lies about Vista being the most secure Windows ever

Windows Vista is more susceptible to malware vulnerabilities than its eight-year-old predecessor Windows 2000, according to a recent independent study conducted by PC Tools.

However, it turns out Vista is still 37% less vulnerable than XP which many hail to be the most popular Windows ever. It would make sense the more popular the OS the more malware available for that platform, hence Apple’s argument their OS is more secure than Microsoft’s. That does raise an interesting point; does that mean Vista is slightly more popular and secure than Windows 2000 was?

PC Tool’s study involves analyzing the number of [...]

Microsoft could learn a thing or two from GTA IV for Windows 7 release

Grand Theft Auto IV, released by the much acclaimed Take Two Interactive, is one of the most successful pieces of software to ever hit the market. Are there things that long-time software giant Microsoft could learn from the one of the most successful software launches in video game history?

Writer Samara Lynn of Channel Web believes there are a few things that Microsoft could learn from GTA IV. First, Lynn believes that Microsoft should be giving more [...]