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If Windows Vista has taught Microsoft anything, and it did, it is that poor performance or even the perception of poor performance from a user experience perspective can kill a product just as much as lack of driver support and software and hardware incompatibilities. This is why with Windows 7 Microsoft is preparing... |
4 September 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Even though Microsoft has only recently started talking Windows 7, in preparation for events such as the professional Developer Conference 2008, WinHEC 2008 and TechEd EMEA 2008, the fact of the matter is that Windows Vista's successor has been in development since 2007. In fact, for the past couple of years, na... |
3 September 2008
12:09 GMT |
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Apple's Mac OS X and the open source Linux operating systems continue to erode the install base of Microsoft's proprietary platform. According to statistics made available by Net Applications, Windows accounted for a market share of no less than 93.06% back in August 2007. One year later, and all the availa... |
2 September 2008
10:47 GMT |
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While Apple's Macs running OS X are without a doubt making inroads into the territory owned by Microsoft and PC makers with Windows machines, the fact of the matter is that the Redmond company and its OEM partners still account for the vast majority of the operating system and computer markets. As far as co... |
2 September 2008
09:56 GMT |
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 have issues integrating as guest operating systems on computers powered by multiple processors. According to Microsoft, virtualized copies of the latest versions of its Windows client and server operating systems can cause the virtual machine to restart and... |
2 September 2008
07:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has informed of an issue impacting both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (but not RTM) and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 on machines with AMD SB700 Southbridge chipsets installed. According to the Redmond giant, both the latest versions of its Windows client and server operating systems may crash when placed into... |
1 September 2008
09:09 GMT |
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Attempting to avoid the rather sluggish experience that has become inherently associated with Windows Vista RTM, Microsoft promised, through the voice of Steven Sinofsky, that Windows 7 would not set a single “bit” out of Redmond until it would meet a set of performance criteria. The Senior Vice Pres... |
29 August 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Service Pack 1 was nothing short of a panacea for Windows Vista, and in this context it now falls on Windows 7 to wash away all the sins of the current version of Windows. Vista RTM managed to hit a consistent amount of speed-bumps from software and hardware incompatibility to lack of support and to poor performance.... |
28 August 2008
13:34 GMT |
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It's nothing short of a veritable Windows fiesta over in Redmond. Following the launches of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 earlier this year, Windows 7 Client and Windows 7 Server/Windows Server 2008 R2 are now taking center stage. But at the same time Microsoft has not given up on W... |
27 August 2008
18:05 GMT |
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Windows Vista sales have long jumped over the milestone of 180 million licenses offered in mid-2008 by Microsoft, and while failing to come out with a different figure, the Redmond giant revealed that the adoption rate of the latest Windows client is steadfast. Through the voice of Christopher Flores, director, Windo... |
26 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Windows XP, now with Service Pack 3, Windows 7 and even the open source Linux do not provide sufficient reasons to avoid upgrading to Windows Vista SP1. According to market analyst company Forrester, in the corporate environments, Vista adoption is up no less than 75%, taking into consideration data from the fourth q... |
25 August 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Even if it is virtually Windows Vista at the core, or at least an evolved form of Vista, Windows 7 is being artificially dissociated from its precursor. At the start of August 2008, Microsoft finally put an end to the deafening silence surrounding the Windows 7 project, and started actually communicating bits and pie... |
25 August 2008
14:56 GMT |
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The end of June 2008 brought with it the availability cut off date for Windows XP, now with Service Pack 3, via the retail and OEM channels. Microsoft made it clear that discontinuing XP Direct OEM and Retail Licenses would have absolutely no impact on the support lifecycle of the operating system, and the same is va... |
25 August 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Making a 64-bit copy of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 confirm that it is actually Vista SP1 might require a minimum amount of effort on behalf of the end user, such as right-clicking My Computer and selecting Properties, but things are a tad different when an application is programmed to identify the operating system ... |
25 August 2008
09:32 GMT |
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Microsoft's decision to have both Windows XP and Windows Vista available concomitantly on the market was a move that inherently backfired against the company. Comparisons involving the two Windows operating system versions favored Vista very little, being, quite to the contrary, beneficial for XP instead. Howeve... |
22 August 2008
09:39 GMT |
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Signaling yet again that the time for inaction when it comes down to the damage delivered by Apple's Get a Mac ads is over and done with, Microsoft has come out with the proverbial guns blazing. The Redmond giant, through the voice of Christopher Flores, Director Windows Communications, is applauding Windows Vis... |
22 August 2008
09:19 GMT |
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Apple had no problems whatsoever in leveraging the weight of its brand in order to kick Windows Vista while the operating system was down. But the time is drawing near when Microsoft will no longer be a silent and passive participant in the Apple monologue marketing show. The Redmond company has been building up its ... |
21 August 2008
14:46 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 SP1/RTM can run into very rare problems when it comes down to integration with hardware components connected via a PCI Express interface. The Redmond giant described an issue occurring only at restart in which cards failing to play nice... |
21 August 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is indeed starting to deliver an increasing volume of details related to the upcoming Windows 7 client and Windows 7 Server releases, but the end of 2009/ the debut of 2010 is still not even on the horizon, and neither are the next iterations of the Windows platforms. And with Windows XP available only on u... |
19 August 2008
12:16 GMT |
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There is not one single cohesive group building Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, revealed Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group. Instead, the engineering entity is made up of no less than 25 different teams, each hammering away at one specific segment of the next ... |
19 August 2008
11:16 GMT |
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In certain scenarios select editions of Windows Vista RTM can lose the IP address received through a DHCP server, Microsoft informed. According to the Redmond company the gold version of its latest Windows client can revert back to an Automatic Private IP Addressing address instead of retaining the DHCP IP. Such prob... |
19 August 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Microsoft is cooking new storage features for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. However, the Windows Feature Pack for Storage will not be limited to the Vista and XP clients, and will also be released for the Windows Server operating systems, namely Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 200... |
18 August 2008
12:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has released Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 to manufacturing in mid-July 2008, and the problems have already begun to emerge for the Windows media Center update. The Redmond company indicated that on machines with Windows Media Center TV Pack installed, following the finalization of the "Set up TV" proce... |
18 August 2008
06:03 GMT |
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Windows Vista, both the RTM and Service Pack 1 versions, can lose installed drivers in scenarios in which the computer is started via the Last Known Good Configuration feature. According to Microsoft not only Vista RTM/SP1 is affected, but also Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1. Machines booted with the Last Known Good Con... |
18 August 2008
05:35 GMT |
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A free solution accelerator available for download straight from Microsoft is capable of sniffing out the security holes on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and RTM computers in an IT infrastructure. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 was released at the end of June 2008, and is the evolution of the Window... |
15 August 2008
07:25 GMT |
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With the release of the gold version of Service Pack 1, but also with the maturing of the software and hardware environment orbiting around the Windows client, Windows Vista's compatibility level has continually increased. Still, Microsoft is very much hammering away at the operating system with its evangelism w... |
14 August 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The RTM and Service Pack 1 versions of the latest Windows client can fail to play nice with restarting multicore-processor computers, according to Microsoft. The Redmond giant indicated that both the 32-bit and 64-bit variants of Vista RTM and Vista SP1 could be impacted by the issue. However, it appears that the pro... |
14 August 2008
08:46 GMT |
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The System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista was initially made available in mid-April 2008, following the release of Service Pack 1. Earlier this week, the Redmond giant delivered an update version of the tool, focused only on the 32-bit editions of the latest Windows client. Also up for grabs, the System Upda... |
14 August 2008
07:16 GMT |
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Users that so far have failed to grab free Windows Vista Enterprise straight from Microsoft, are bound to have a harder time tracking down and downloading a copy of the operating system. The Redmond company has silently taken down the download pages for the pair of offerings that went live back in 2007 containing pre... |
14 August 2008
04:15 GMT |
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The technology behind animated movies such as The Incredibles, Toy Story, Ratatouille, and Monsters Inc. is fully compatible with 64-bit Windows. SIGGRAPH 2008 acted as the stage where Pixar celebrated none other than the 20-year anniversary of RenderMan, and introduced RenderMan Pro Server 14.0. Planned for availabi... |
13 August 2008
07:02 GMT |
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Windows XP and Windows Vista users can grab a free power management application, made available courtesy of Microsoft and Verdiem. According to the Redmond giant, the energy monitoring program is designed to integrate seamlessly with XP Service pack 2 and Windows Vista RTM. Microsoft has said nothing about compatibil... |
12 August 2008
13:07 GMT |
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Some of the sins of the RTM version of Windows Vista have not been exorcised with the advent of Service Pack 1. The gold Build of Vista was plagued from the get go with hardware incompatibility problems, mainly due to the lack of compatible drivers. However, while incompatible drivers can be blamed on hardware develo... |
12 August 2008
11:39 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to start building the next generation of the software development kit for the Windows platform. In July 2008, Sarah Maurer, program manager on the Windows SDK Team, introduced two official surveys designed to tap the developers making use of the tools but also samples, header files, documentat... |
12 August 2008
07:50 GMT |
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In parallel with the Windows 7 client, the successor of Windows Vista, Microsoft is also building the next iteration of the Windows server operating system. Windows 7 Server will follow Windows Server 2008 R2, but Microsoft has failed to deliver a timetable for the release so far. Still, while revealing close to no i... |
8 August 2008
13:36 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned end users that performing Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 upgrades from copies of XP SP2 and Vista RTM, respectively, that have Onekey Recovery 5.0 installed will cause the operating systems to display a black screen following reboot. According to the Redmond company, t... |
8 August 2008
13:14 GMT |
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At the start of July, Kevin Turner, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer, revealed that the Redmond company considers Windows Vista an apex of security, and in this sense, superior to Mac OS X, Linux, the whole of open source and even Windows XP. Yet this perspective is not sufficient to take either Vista or XP out of t... |
8 August 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Windows Codename Fiji is the prime example of Microsoft sticking to an absurd policy when it comes down to communicating details about its products to the general public. Even at just one month from the release of Windows Fiji, the Redmond company is keeping a tight lid on all details much to the frustration of Windo... |
8 August 2008
09:08 GMT |
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Microsoft has already indicated through the voice of Anantha Kancherla, manager of Windows desktop and graphics technologies, that DirectX 11 would be at the vanguard of the upcoming general purpose graphics processing (GPGPU) revolution. However, the real details have only been shared with developers and not the gen... |
7 August 2008
13:12 GMT |
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Microsoft's next iteration of DirectX is bound to be situated at the forefront of the general purpose graphics processing (GPGPU) revolution, according to the Redmond company. The software giant has been extremely shy of revealing details about the successor of DirectX 10 directly to the general public. At its r... |
6 August 2008
11:13 GMT |
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Speed Launch is an application designed to deliver a breath of fresh air to the process of launching mundane and repetitive tasks in Windows, offering a high level of flexibility in comparison to what is available by default with the operating system. The product of a collaboration between Matt Dyor, a patent attorne... |
6 August 2008
06:28 GMT |
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2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over. In fact the software giant is already hammering away at Windows 7, Vista's successor, and has also started to plan Windows 8, the Windows cli... |
5 August 2008
12:07 GMT |
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Microsoft's first and only public demonstration of Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows client, delivered at the end of May 2008, offers the first consistent peek at the touch computing feature of the operating system. The Redmond company is heavily committed to investing in the evolution of natural user... |
4 August 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Windows Vista has embarked on a new course from Windows Codename 'Perception' to the final product labeled 'Reality.' In the past, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer dismissed claims that the latest Windows client failed as a product. And commercially, Vista has fared rather well, sel... |
2 August 2008
07:22 GMT |
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The evolution of Windows in parallel with computing architectures can be mapped out in accordance to the following marks: 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit and even further along. But while milestones have the potential to offer a consistent growth in terms of performance, they also come with inherent setbacks when it comes do... |
1 August 2008
11:40 GMT |
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When it was made available in November 2006 and in January 2007, Windows Vista brought to the table a plethora of editions, some of which will survive with the next iterations of the Windows client. But one SKU that was officially confirmed by Microsoft for Windows 7, and even Windows 8, is Enterprise. Out of all the... |
31 July 2008
11:09 GMT |
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Moving onward from Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows 7, Microsoft is gearing up for the death of 32-bit versions of the Windows client. On the server-side, Window's transition to 64-bit only architectures is almost complete, with Windows Server 2008 being the last server opera... |
31 July 2008
09:02 GMT |
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Microsoft is proving that it's never too early to start gearing up for the availability of the next version of the Windows client. In this context, the Redmond company revealed that it is already hard at work to ensure that consumers would be able to benefit from a new standard of quality when it comes down to t... |
31 July 2008
06:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has thrown the old Windows Vista in the same arena of public perception as a "new Windows operating system codenamed Mojave." And surprisingly, Windows Vista won. Well, the new Windows Vista at least, now complete with Service Pack 1, not the RTM version that hit the shelves on January 30, 2008. Microsoft&#... |
30 July 2008
13:52 GMT |
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Microsoft has offered official confirmation that Office 14 would ship either in late 2009, or at the beginning of 2010. In this context, Office 14 will hit the shelves in tandem with Windows 7. By the looks of it, Microsoft is gearing up for a repeat of the joint Windows Vista - the Office 2007 System launch with its... |
30 July 2008
07:52 GMT |
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Perceived or real, performance was one of the speed bumps hit by Windows Vista RTM following general availability on January 30, 2007. Microsoft is indeed tackling this issue on the consumer-side in terms of perceptions with initiatives such as the Mojave Experiment, but has actually addressed it heads on with the re... |
30 July 2008
04:38 GMT |
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