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| STORIES ABOUT: Vista |
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| DirectX 11 Will Change How Gaming Looks |  | At long last, after months of speculation, Microsoft has revealed a few details regarding its upcoming DirectX 11. The company promises that, following the somewhat icy reception that the Vista only DirectX 10 has had, it will create a gaming graphics API t ... [read more >>] | | 23 July 2008, 02:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| O2 XDA Vista - Impressively Illegal |  | If, for some odd reasons, you have always dreamed of having a Vista Pocket PC, your dream can now finally come true, thanks to a new mobile device named O2 XDA Vista. At first, when I stumbled upon this device, I thought that maybe O2, the well-known global mobile operator, made a fabulous deal with Microsoft in order to use the Vista branding on a new Pocket PC from its ... [read more >>] | | 30 June 2008, 13:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Zooming in Yahoo Messenger for Vista is a Piece of Cake |  | Yahoo Messenger for Vista, currently in Beta stage, comes with multiple new functions besides the main XP releases, the 8 stable version and the 9 Beta edition. As you know, most web-browsers currently available on the market allow you to zoom in or out by pressing the Control key and scrolling up or down. Well, the same feature also exists in Yahoo Messenger for Vista so, in case you want to modify the font size, you know what y ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2008, 09:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista Taking Over Your iPhone |  | Apple's iPhone and Microsoft's Windows Vista are not exactly best friends, not from the point of view of their creators and neither from the one of their users. However, those who (for some odd reasons) might want their iPhone's interface to feature a "very Vista" look, have now a perfect opportunity to Vistamize their Apple ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 'So Many Users Are Leavin' Me for Mac,' Vista Says |  | It's been a while since we looked at another Mac vs PC ad, hasn't it? It seems that with the passing of each day, Windows PC realizes he has very little chance keeping everyone interested in him with Mac out in the wild too. That's why PC has decided to write a sad song dubbed "the Vista Blues", which he sings to Mac, admitting he's a loser.
The latest such commercial from Apple begins, as usual, ... [read more >>] | | 16 May 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Weekend Bashing: 5 Reasons Why GTA IV Will Be Better on the PC |  | There is a pandemic going around in the world and it’s called the GTA IV bug. I don't want to be misunderstood, I really liked this latest title from Rockstar but I feel that all the editors in the world, with very few exceptions, are attending group therapy in a broth ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 20:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo Messenger for Vista Rolls out New Features |  | Ever since the Sunnyvale-based company announced the availability of Yahoo Messenger for Vista, users out there downloaded and tested the application even if it was only a preview of the upcoming IM client. Unfortunately, this very early version of the program provided a limited number of functions so users couldn't really test too much of it. Today, Yahoo debuts a new edition of Yahoo Messenger for Vista which incorporates ... [read more >>] | | 02 May 2008, 08:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Creative: You Fix Our Sound Drivers, We Throw You In Jail |  | Soundcard specialist Creative has been marketing its sound-related products as "Vista Ready" since the release of the new operating system from Microsoft. However, things are not quite exactly true, and many of the company's customers have fallen for this "misunderstanding".
The issue relies in the Windows Vista sound drivers the Creative engineers have written. However, the code comes crippled in the ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 12:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More Mac vs PC. Sidebar Ads |  | Sidebar ads are nice and entertaining, aren't they? Every time you load a page, there's a good chance that a funny sidebar ad will appear, either aimed at promoting a device, a car, an environmental-friendly product and of course more. So, they&# ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 07:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| ESO Maps Massive Dark Molecular Cloud |  | In anticipation of the launch of the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, or VISTA, expected to become operational by the middle of the current year, astronomers from the European Organization for Astronomical Research have mapped the content of a dark filament of molecular cloud named Corona Australis, located in the Southern Crown constellation about 500 light years away from Earth, with the greatest detail yet.
The 4 ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 08:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Text Messenger Gadget for Windows Vista |  | Nokia, via its Beta Labs website, announced the release of Nokia Text Messenger for Windows Vista, a gadget that enables users to view their latest SMS messages and send new ones from the Vista sidebar. This means that Nokia owners who also hav ... [read more >>] | | 21 February 2008, 03:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hidden Messenger Vista Matrix Feature Revealed |  | The subtitle is the mark of a long and excruciating pain that I went through when seeing that almost every week or so there was a blog from the Yahoo! Instant Messenger team that said nothing. Nothing of interest, actually: old features presented, the emoticons’ story (wasn’t exciting at all, a list of people whom the ideas came from) and some other riffraff about audio features presented as new but that have been included in the ... [read more >>] | | 20 February 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What’s New in Microsoft Land: 28 January – 1 February, 2008 |  | Patent Portfolio Quality is what every company in the world wants to achieve a higher value in, but only few can. Microsoft has jumped to the top spot of the Patent Board, an independent provider of patent metrics, in January, from the second position it had held the previous year. November of last year had seen the Redmond-based company reach the same no.1 spot in IEEE Spectrum’s top, the publication from the Institute of Electrical and E ... [read more >>] | | 02 February 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista Officially Got F5’d |  | Long have I complained about the fact that the Yahoo! Messenger team did nothing whatsoever to improve their products and instead preferred to bring up front the older features that they thought people weren’t using. And up until today they've never failed with the disappointment, they were like clockwork.
The refresh that the Instant Messenger service got for its Vista version came as a gentle breeze to remind us that once in a bl ... [read more >>] | | 23 January 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Vista More Secure than XP When It Comes to Infected MP3 Players |  | The recent avalanche of threats proved us that many, if not the majority of threats attempt to spread themselves by copying their files on clean removable drives connected to an infected computer. Usually, this process is based on Autorun.Inf, a file placed on the targeted removable devices that executes the infection once they are connected to the computers. Roel of Viruslist.com has done an interesting analysis over the Windows Autorun f ... [read more >>] | | 04 January 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Eee PC Can Run Windows Vista |  | Asustek's Eee PC sold millions of units in the first months since it hit the market. Its low price and the eye-candy aspect have made it the most wanted present for the holidays to come. Currently, there are only a few units left on the retailers' shelves and consider yourself lucky if you can grab your Eee PC.
The sub-notebook is functionally limited and comes with a Linux-based operating system. As for the hardware ... [read more >>] | | 17 December 2007, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What’s New in Microsoft Land: 3rd - 7th December 2007 |  | Bad news for hackers worldwide, it looks like it’s going all downhill for them from here on end with their attempts to exploit the Windows Vista activation process. Two updates that will target and disable those back-doors will be included in the first Service Pack ... [read more >>] | | 09 December 2007, 15:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What’s New in Microsoft Land: 26th – 30th November 2007 |  | Monday was a gush of fresh air for the 2.2 million members community of Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) that were announced that as of that day they will be receiving new benefits that will help them successfully deploy and support new technologies by increasing the access to Microsoft’s internal resources and networking with their peers.
As Microsoft is preparing for the " ... [read more >>] | | 02 December 2007, 09:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OCZ Fights RAM Starvation: 8GB Memory Kits |  | The cooling solution masters surely can not complain about monotony: they have been listed on London Stock Exchange, took over PC Power & Cooling and Hypersonic-PC, while they gave their best to put new goodies on the market.
The memory kit is unique: the AM2 Special High Density Kit refuses to work with Intel processors, as they make use of special features implemented inside the memory controllers of Athlon 64 X2 and Ph ... [read more >>] | | 30 November 2007, 06:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What's New in Microsoft Land: 19th - 23rd November 2007 |  | The week started extremely well for Microsoft, as it received on Monday the No.1 Employer award, given by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). The preference survey is the 19th of the kind that the NSBE has conducted – one a year. Carl Mack says that the recognition comes "At a very important time for NSBE, for ... [read more >>] | | 25 November 2007, 11:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple's Give Up on Vista Web Ad |  | With the recent ‘Get a Mac’ ads so clearly making fun of the vista situation, one would have thought that Apple has taken things as far as they could. That, however, does not seem to be the case and the latest ad has taken them even further.
Apple’s latest ad, dubbed ‘Give Up On Vista,’ while managing to be both hilarious and very good at what it is supposed to do, is remarkable in more ways than one.
If people thought that ... [read more >>] | | 21 November 2007, 09:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What's New in Microsoft Land: 12th - 16th November 2007 |  | Microsoft is growing bigger and bigger by the hour and Monday’s announcement that it opened the new international headquarters for Microsoft Research, Building 99, confirms it. It is said to be the first of seven new buildings on the West Campus, four of which are to be occupied by the company’s Entertainment and Devices Division. The West Campus will offer employees convenient amenities such as a post office, a mini-spa, a bookstore and 1 ... [read more >>] | | 18 November 2007, 10:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What’s New in Microsoft Land: 29th October – 2nd November 2007 |  | Since the Redmond-based software company is seeking for an Ultimate Windows computer, its officials struggle to find out a way to obtain it. On Monday, Microsoft introduced what is probably the smartest way to discover a computer design which fully integrates the Windo ... [read more >>] | | 04 November 2007, 12:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What’s New in Microsoft Land: 22nd – 26th October 2007 |  | Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console got a new flavor on Monday when the Redmond-based company rolled out Xbox 360 Console for Families, a special version of the device which targets whole families. In case you’re wondering why this console is so specia ... [read more >>] | | 28 October 2007, 05:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NVidia Graphic Cards Used in Vista Password Cracking |  | Although it might sound tricky, you can now recover a lost or forgotten Windows Vista logon password using a simple GeForce graphics card. The technology was designed by the Russian company Elcomsoft which also filed a patent currently in pending. You might think this is illegal but Elcomsoft is one of the Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, its solutions helping the customers to recover their lost passwords. The new version of El ... [read more >>] | | 26 October 2007, 03:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Vista Users in Trouble With the New Firefox |  | Mozilla rolled out Firefox 2.0.0.8 a few days ago, being a version which was supposed to patch approximately 200 glitches. Although it fixed most of them, it appears that it also caused some others making the application a little buggy. However, Mike Beltzner of Mozilla wrote on the company's blog that Firefox 2.0.0.9 is currently in labs and might be released next week for all the users. The matter can be called "an up ... [read more >>] | | 25 October 2007, 06:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Don't Upgrade Your Vista Computer! You Might Become a Windows Pirate! |  | We all know that having a genuine version of Windows Vista comes with support from Microsoft, updates and lots of other goodies but sometimes, all you need to become a software pirate is a simple Vista error. At least, this is what happened to James Bannan who described on the APC Magazine website a pretty weird situation which almost blocked his computer. It all started when James changed his graphics card on the computer equipp ... [read more >>] | | 24 October 2007, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NFS ProStreet System Requirements Out |  | Finally, the system requirements for the PC version of NFS ProStreet are here, but according to thoughtful blokes over at Nfsplanet who managed to snag them, the "specifications are not confirmed by EA yet." However, it never hurts to see whether you "kind-of" fit the profile or not. After all, they don't roll out "minimum" and "recommended" requirements for nothing, now do they? The ones listed ... [read more >>] | | 23 October 2007, 06:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo Messenger for Vista Almost Here |  | In case you're a Vista user who loves online chatting, I bet you're waiting for the long-discussed Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista prepared by the Sunnyvale based company. Since January when Yahoo first spoke about the Vista compatible flavor of Yahoo Messenger, it kept the product in the spotlights using every once in a while published news which were supposed to increase users' interest over the product. The Me ... [read more >>] | | 18 October 2007, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What's New in Microsoft Land: 1st - 5th October 2007 |  | On Monday, Microsoft announced what seems to be the most important release this year after Windows Vista's launch on January 30: the availability of a web-based flavor of Microsoft Office which is obviously the software giant's reply to Google's evolution into this market. Office Live Workspace is pretty similar with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which recently received a presentation tool, allowing the ... [read more >>] | | 06 October 2007, 14:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HTC Shift Sports Windows Vista |  | HTC Shift is one of the most powerful smartphones that HTC released in its latest unveiling. The device is one of the first mobile computers globally to offer Microsoft Windows Vista and push email, which makes it pretty special.
The new devices coming from HTC manage to pack only the latest technology and the Shift one goes as close as possible to what laptops have to offer. Its great advantage, when compared to such devices, ... [read more >>] | | 02 October 2007, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista? |  | Since Yahoo Messenger is one of the top instant messaging clients on the web, the Sunnyvale company Yahoo is continuously focused on it, looking to improve it with new features and functions. If you're a Windows Vista user, you're probably waiting for the special version of Yahoo Messenger which is expected to be 100 percent compatible with this operating system. In fact, Yahoo Messenger 8.1 is already able to work on V ... [read more >>] | | 17 September 2007, 03:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What’s New in Microsoft Land: 10th – 14th September 2007 |  | Since March 8, 2006, when the first beta version of Live Search was rolled out, the Redmond-based company struggled to compete with the famous search giant Google but every time, the Mountain View firm managed to face the competition and quickly rejected its attempts. But it seems that things are going to change soon as Microsoft prepares a new move to become a top player in the search engines competition. New speculations came out on ... [read more >>] | | 16 September 2007, 11:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Free Anti-Virus for Vista! |  | Yesterday I wrote a material about a free anti-spyware that was Vista compatible, and now, here's any anti-virus to go with it! It's the AVG Anti-Virus Free 7.5.485a1117! Not only Vista compatible, but works on older versions of Windows as well. You can safely download it from our site, by clicking this < ... [read more >>] | | 05 September 2007, 06:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Free Anti-Spyware for Vista! |  | This is great – it protects you against spyware, it's free and it works on Windows Vista! It's the newest (1.5.1) version of Spybot Search and Destroy. It is bound to keep your machine nice and clean as it will detect and take out any spyware and will also make you immune to a lot of spy-type threats!
This is one great tool that many people have been using for a lot of time, but this is the first version that works o ... [read more >>] | | 04 September 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| F-Secure Launches Internet Security 2008! It Even Works on Vista! |  | The F-Secure Corporation has announced today that they have launched the new F-Secure Internet Security 2008 solution thus making even more efforts in order for users to take full advantages as well as opportunities of the web, easily and safe.
For those of you that do not know, F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and otherthreats from the Internet and mobile networks. F-Secure’s aw ... [read more >>] | | 03 September 2007, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista Running from RAM |  | Have you heard of OSs that run completely from RAM? If you haven’t, do a Google Search for Puppy Linux and you will understand why this is a good idea - everything loads as fast as lightning and you’ll soon forget what waiting is altogether (you could even give it a try to see for yourself what a fast loading time really means).
Now let’s talk about a hypothetical situation. Could this be a viable solution for Vista? Can it ru ... [read more >>] | | 31 August 2007, 16:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Top 3 Reasons Why Most Vista Users Won’t Switch to Linux |  | You’ve just installed Vista OS on your PC that came equipped with 1 or 1,5 GB of RAM a year ago and you noticed your system isn’t running as fast as it was when it ran the XP version of Windows. What can you do?
The thing that every Vista user out there has done at least once: you go to the store and buy yourself another GB of RAM and probably a more powerful processor. Now you’re running Vista at (almost) peak performance and you’re d ... [read more >>] | | 31 August 2007, 16:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Top Reasons to Stick with Vista |  | Most people have considered at least once or twice the reasons to keep using Vista after installing the free Betas released by Microsoft before the official launch or after buying their own copy of the OS and installing it on their newly upgraded and Vista compatible PC.
If you’re in the first category you might find most of the arguments I’m going to list here in favor of making use of Vista instead of other OSs mostly because you have ... [read more >>] | | 31 August 2007, 16:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What’s New in Microsoft Land: 13th – 17th August 2007 |  | Some say that in order to have a nice week, you have to start with a calm Monday and make all the things enjoyable for yourself. This is exactly what Microsoft tried to do on August 13 when the Redmond giant completed the acquisition of aQuantive, the a ... [read more >>] | | 19 August 2007, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What’s New in Microsoft Land: 6th – 10th August 2007 |  | It’s a well known fact that Microsoft tries to do anything possible to attract more customers to its Xbox 360 game platform and battle the famous rival Sony and its PlayStation 3 console. Recently, there has been a lot of buzz around the PS3 because Sony ... [read more >>] | | 12 August 2007, 10:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista's Annoyances Under the Spotlight |  | After getting used to work with Vista I somewhat forgot about how difficult it was to get used to it and now I finally had the idea to make some sort of list containing all the annoyances (or at least the ones that I remember of) that made me think Vista will only make my life a living hell. That was when I started to use it because, as you probably know, after using any type of software or operating system you get used to it or, in the wo ... [read more >>] | | 31 July 2007, 11:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What’s New in Microsoft Land: 23rd – 27th July 2007 |  | Microsoft developed OneCare as the main security solution for the Windows operating system, but it was proved several times that this application might not be able to protect the user. That’s why most of the security companies able to develop powerful products compatible with Microsoft’s operating system turned their face to Vista in order to bring more money and consumers to their records. Kaspersky Labs is just one of them, its antivirus ... [read more >>] | | 29 July 2007, 11:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Making the Switch from XP to Vista |  | These are the questions that popped up into my mind from the very moment I had my first encounter with Microsoft's new operating system: ‘Why should I use Vista instead of XP?’ ‘Is there something that makes it better than the previous Microsoft OS?’
Until a few days ago, I have never wanted to even try to get an answer to these questions, mainly because I got used to Vista, using it all day long at the job. However, just yesterday ... [read more >>] | | 27 July 2007, 11:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Already Has Plans for the Next O.S. |  | Microsoft announced at a conference held for its field sales force in Orlando that the company is starting work on a new operating system, internally known as "7" that should hit the market in about three years and become the successor of Windows Vista.
As Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows Vista did not produce the expected revolution in the personal computing field and it even has problems in replacing the ol ... [read more >>] | | 21 July 2007, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Beats All Records |  | Microsoft just reported a record annual revenue, crediting its success to "solid customer acceptance" of Windows Vista and Office 2007, along with increasing sales of SQL Server, Windows Server and Visual Studio. The Redmond-based company reported an annual revenue increase by 13 percent, slightly beating analysts’ expectations for both revenue and profit, while at the same time paying $1.1 billion to repair or replace ... [read more >>] | | 20 July 2007, 06:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Launches Beta Vista Service Pack |  | Sources close to the Redmond software company said that while users will have to wait until November for a full release of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1, a beta version will be available shortly, possibly even this week. What will be included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 – aside from the usual operating system updates – is not yet known, as Microsoft declined to comment on it.
"There will be a Windows Vista service ... [read more >>] | | 19 July 2007, 06:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia Angry with PC Makers |  | How expensive is it to be a PC gamer? Well, that depends on your particular favorite game genre and of course on how often you replace or upgrade your hardware. Roy Taylor, vice president of content relation for Nvidia says as cited by Ars Technica, that most game [ADM ... [read more >>] | | 19 July 2007, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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