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Vista Performance Post SP1

Poor performance was one of the sins associated with Windows Vista RTM, especially in comparison to Windows XP throughout 2007. In this context, the Service Pack 1 for the operating system was long overdue as Microsoft faced what it seemed to be an ever increasing wave of criticism because of the sluggish pace at whi...

9 October 2008
13:11 GMT

Download Process Monitor 2.0 for Vista and XP

At the start of September 2008, Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich revealed that he was cooking a major update for Process Monitor, one of the components of the Sysinternals suite. As of September 30, version 2.0 of Process Monitor became available for download. The  description of the tool authored by ...

1 October 2008
13:18 GMT

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting

Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system? And, if so, what solution/platform will be THE Windows killer? It's not like candidates are in short supply. From the Google Browser (Chrome) to Linux, Mac OS X, to RIA platforms, to dedicated thin ...

13 September 2008
07:14 GMT

Download Free Sysinternals Coreinfo for XP SP3 and Vista SP1

Coreinfo version 1.0 is a free utility released under the Sysinternals brand umbrella. Developed by Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, Coreinfo debuted on September 11, and is designed to retrieve and deliver information related to a machine's logical processors. According to Microsoft, Coreinfo 1.0 is...

12 September 2008
09:09 GMT

Updated Windows Sysinternals Suite Available for Download

The Sysinternals Suite is essentially a collection composed of all the Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities, and, according to Microsoft, a new, updated version of the suite of tools is available for download as of September 2, 2008. All the Sysinternals items can also be accessed via the Sysinternals Live online s...

3 September 2008
10:43 GMT

Non-Windows Microsoft OS Midori - "The Windows Killer"

Windows is one product that is not lacking in Nemesis candidates. From Apple's Mac OS X to the open source Linux, to RIA cloud-based operating systems, potential Microsoft Windows killers are advertised in a variety of scenarios incongruent with reality. Microsoft's own non-Windows platforms Singularity and...

26 August 2008
10:45 GMT

Microsoft Brings Out the Vista SP1 Cavalry

Everything else has not failed... Well, maybe the Wow... So, when on the remnants of the failed Wow, Microsoft is now bringing in the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 cavalry. With Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Technical Fellow in the Platform and Services division at the lead, the Redmond company offered the Springboard L...

10 March 2008
14:20 GMT

The Must-Have Free Downloads for Windows Vista - Sysinternals Suite

Even though Microsoft has promised to drop the prices associated with some of the retail standalone versions of Windows Vista (specifically the Home Premium and Ultimate editions), the fact of the matter is that the SKUs of the latest Windows client will still be far from cheap. In this context, you have to take adva...

29 February 2008
11:31 GMT

Microsoft Admits Vista Slower than XP, But Says Vista SP1 No Longer Handicapped

One of the major aspects that caused Windows Vista to come under fire was performance. Despite the fact that Microsoft touted an evolution in terms of performance compared to Windows XP, Vista simply failed to deliver. And as far as Vista is concerned, user perception is virtually generalized, pointing to an inferior...

7 February 2008
09:28 GMT

Looking beyond XP SP3 and Vista SP1 - Understanding the MinWin Kernel in Windows 7

In terms of new releases on the Windows client front, Microsoft is cooking the first Service Pack for Windows Vista and the third and final Service Pack for Windows XP. Both refreshes are planned for 2008, with the Redmond company offering as deadlines the first quarter and the first half of the upcoming year. But, l...

18 December 2007
13:01 GMT

Microsoft: Top Vista Mitigations Are Not Security Features = No Guarantees for Users

If you believe that User Account Control, PatchGuard (Kernel Patch Protection) and Mandatory Driver Signing introduced in Windows Vista are security mitigations, then you might want to know that you are wrong. But don't be disappointed, some of Microsoft's own people tend to think that the features enumerat...

5 October 2007
07:29 GMT

Download Free Windows Vista Process Explorer

Are you willing to get your hands dirty and look into every nook and cranny of your copy of Windows Vista? Well, this is what Process Explorer is all about. Delivering Vista on a silver platter for your monitoring pleasure. And of course that the utility is by no means limited to Microsoft's latest Windows platf...

5 September 2007
04:19 GMT




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