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20th August Comments

A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP

Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 4:30 am

 
Vista’s death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP. In a survey of more than 3,000 computers, performance testing software developer Devil Mountain Software estimated that more than one in three new [...]

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15th August Comments

Did Microsoft Forget a Patch?

Posted on August 15th, 2008 at 9:14 am

Lost in the shuffle of this month’s Patch Tuesday barrage is the fact that a critical vulnerability in the ever-present Windows Media Player (WMP) was not fixed “because of a last minute quality issue.”
Microsoft originally listed the WMP update in the advance notice for August but, when the patches dropped on Tuesday, it had slipped [...]

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7th July Comments

XP SP3 to reach most users ’shortly,’ says Microsoft

Posted on July 7th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

July 7, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. today said that it would begin pushing Windows XP Service Pack 3 to most users “shortly.”
The announcement, made by Nick MacKechnie, a senior manager for Microsoft’s New Zealand operations, was not unexpected, since the company had previously said that it would release Windows XP SP3 to Automatic Updates sometime [...]

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25th June Comments

Bill Gates’ greatest hits and misses

Posted on June 25th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

June 30 marks Gates’ last official day of work at Microsoft. While the software giant’s founder will continue on as chairman, he will no longer be a full-time employee. ZDNet’s editor in chief, Larry Dignan, rates Gates’ many conference keynotes and product launches, separating the successful from those that missed the mark.
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12th June Comments

10 top tweaks for Windows Vista

Posted on June 12th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

I only do this for someone that has to work on a lot of Vista Systems poor gal. So here it is for her and any one else that might want to attempt to make Vista a usable OS.
Part 1: In nearly two decades of working with and writing about Windows, one lesson I’ve learned [...]

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9th June Comments

Microsoft Taking Petitions to Keep XP Alive

Posted on June 9th, 2008 at 4:51 am

If you can remember back a few weeks, Steve Ballmer went on record saying that Microsoft would consider extending the life of Windows XP if enough people asked for it. After all, many people don’t want to upgrade to Windows Vista because they are perfectly content with XP. The problem was there was no way [...]

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6th June Comments

Getting XP after June 30, 2008

Posted on June 6th, 2008 at 6:30 am

Loopholes that let you get Windows XP after June 30
Windows XP is dead … long live Windows XP. You may have heard that as of June 30, you’re no longer able to buy the operating system or obtain support for it. But that isn’t quite the case.
In fact, you’ll be able to buy XP on [...]

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28th May Comments

Microsoft readies new ‘don’t blame Windows’ tool

Posted on May 28th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

Microsoft has begun privately beta testing a new tool, known as “Windows Advisor,” which is aimed at helping consumers better pinpoint why their Windows machines might not be up to snuff.
Microsoft officials have been saying that Windows — and especially the much-maligned Windows Vista — isn’t to blame for all of users’ PC problems. Faulty [...]

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12th May Comments

Company claims Windows Vista less secure than Windows 2000

Posted on May 12th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

A recent statement from anti-malware and threat-detection software manufacturer PC Tools claims that Windows 2000 is a more secure operating system than Windows Vista. The company’s claims, as covered by Infoworld, have attracted a good deal of coverage—no one wants to miss out on a good Microsoft bashing—but an examination of the company’s methodology raises [...]

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12th May Comments

Microsoft tries to put a ceiling on ultra-low-cost PC power

Posted on May 12th, 2008 at 9:45 am

Microsoft is aggressively pushing a new low-cost version of its operating system intended for use with “ultra low cost PCs,” competing with Linux on machines like the Eee and the One Laptop Per Child XO. However, Microsoft isn’t willing to sell the low-cost license to any ULPC — rather, the company has set out onerous [...]

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