10 reasons not to get Vista
It's all too easy to get caught up in the million dollar marketing engine as we approach the consumer release of Windows Vista, so lets not forget that it isn't the second coming, and by all counts is an upgrade you can do without.
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22.1.2007 10 reasons you should get Vista
My colleague Ashton Mills published
the top 10 reasons you shouldn't get Vista few days ago. I see his point on some fronts -- admittedly, Microsoft's official publicity material hasn't done a great job of explaining the basic benefits of Vista.
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24.1.2007 10 Reasons Why You Won't Ever Want to Go Back to XP from Vista
Released for businesses in November 2006, and for the general public in January 2007, Windows Vista is but a couple of days away from passing the first six months of availability milestone.
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28.7.2007 Microsoft Cites Top 10 Reasons Partners Should Pitch Vista
Microsoft cut the WinFS file system and PC-to-PC synchronization from Windows Vista, but the company says there are at least 10 key reasons for partners to push the upgraded desktop operating system to their SMB customers.
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11.7.2006 10 reasons to buy new hardware now - during a recession
TechRepublic guest post: It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware.
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20.1.2009 Top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate already leaked to the public, and the the official bits coming May 5, there's been a lot of hype surrounding Windows 7, with generally positive reviews from the community. Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't... and some of what it should of been.
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28.4.2009 Microsoft: Top 10 Reasons to Stay Away from Google Apps
Google Apps and the Microsoft Office 2007 System have been sicced one another as rivals and with both the Mountain View and the Redmond companies failing to share a common perspective on either the two solutions are indeed competing.
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11.9.2007 Tasty Morsels Found In Dogfood-Top 10 reasons Microsoft.com chose IIS7
Dogfood….yummmm! Yes it is true, Microsoft.com has been running Beta 3 of Windows Server 2008 in production since June 12, 2007. What does that mean?
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8.9.2007 Windows Can Also Look Great, Too!
Some people say
that Windows XP doesn't look too great and use all kinds of applications to change the way it does, customizing the window interface, the interface, the start menu or any other element of the operating system.
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28.5.2008 The Great Firewall of China
New restrictions on internet news content in China are aimed at controlling an increasingly independent society that is demanding more rights protections, reports and analysts said on Monday.
The new rules issued on Sunday by the State Council, China's Cabinet, require internet operators to re-register their news sites and police their sites for content that can "endanger state security" and "social order".
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Microsoft IE 8 - Great Performance
This morning, my editor asked why I hadn't blogged about Internet Explorer 8. My response: "Who cares?" Do you? Maybe we both should.
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27.8.2008 Bill Gates: The next great success will come from Asia
"The next great success will come from Asia", said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in Boao, south China's Hainan Province Saturday.
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22.4.2007 China upgrades The Great Firewall, requires new software
While most of you are still reeling from excitement from Apple's releases at their WWDC today, there are some people who may find it a little more restrictive to get the most out of their computers in the future.
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8.6.2009 Top 6 Vista Application Incompatibility Reasons
Application incompatibility is one of the aspects that have managed to deliver extensive damage to the adoption rate of Windows Vista.
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24.5.2008 Forget about DirectX 10 - Introducing DirectX 10.1 Preview for Windows Vista SP1
Forget about Windows Vista's DirectX 10, Microsoft is delivering a preview of DirectX 10.1 associated with the first service pack for the operating system. The Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview is an integer part of the August 2007, DirectX Software Development Kit, and is designed to provide the evolution of the current Direct3D 10.0.
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30.7.2007 3 Reasons Why You Should Jump on Vista SP1 and Completely Ignore XP SP3
By maintaining the parallel availability of Windows Vista and Windows XP, Microsoft is successfully offering inhouse competition to its own products.
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18.10.2007 XP SP3 and Windows 7, the Wrong Reasons to Skip Vista SP1
In the evolution of the Windows client, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is a step set firmly between Windows XP SP2 and Windows 7, just as well as the RTM version of the operating system.
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29.4.2008 Opera 10 Beta Version 10.00b1 download
The well-known web browser, Opera has released its new Opera Browser 10 beta version, which features faster speeds, new enhanced tabs and automatic update. The new Opera Brower 10 beta comes with Opera Turbo for fast browsing on slow connections.
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26.6.2009 Eight Reasons to Think Before Buying an iPhone
Apple made a big splash when it announced the iPhone last month. But with its hefty price tag, restriction to a single carrier and departure from many traditional smart-phone features, buying the iPhone requires careful forethought.
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8.2.2007 Six reasons OSX will not go mainstream
Apple has a great consumer OS on its hands. Its sleek, it's easy to use and it will not ever make it to mainstream America.
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13.11.2008 The 5 Reasons Why Blu-Ray Will Win
This week Stephen Speicher and his engadget column The Clicker discusses the five reasons why he believes Blu-Ray will win the battle against HD-DVD. Some of the major points made are format security, computer manufacturer support, and overall capacity.
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Three reasons why CES is a waste of time
For those of you who have made it to CES at least once in your life, you probably know all about the amount walking and waiting in line and shoving that goes in to any good trip to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.
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9.1.2008 Google Chrome - reasons to avoid
As we reported, Google has released the first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Within a day of its release, there are already a couple of points that users should be cautioned of before using this new browser.
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5.9.2008 50 Reasons to switch from Windows to OS X?
Or, a lost sheep’s ongoing struggle to stay relevant in this internet age.
In a post last week, on St. Valentine’s Day no less, Pirillo states his 50 reasons to switch from Windows (any version?) to OS X.
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19.2.2008 Six reasons Microsoft will continue to lose market share
Microsoft has positioned itself at the top, a top that is targeted by hundreds if not thousands of companies.
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21.11.2008 Reasons to skip Microsoft’s Windows 7 Beta download
As many of you know, I’m a hardcore Mac guy - but I wasn’t always this way. My experiences with Windows Vista sent me over the edge, prompting me to add the “hardcore” next to my “Mac guy” title.
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11.1.2009 5 Reasons Windows 7 Is A Better Deal For Students Than Snow Leopard
Microsoft took on rival Apple head on this week in the education market with a special offer for students to purchase Windows 7 for $30, about the same price as Apple's competing Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
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19.9.2009 Top Ten Reasons to use Windows Small Business Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 is designed for businesses like yours. It is a complete, affordable network solution that helps you stay connected with your customers and run your business more efficiently. And it helps secure your network by automatically protecting your information to keep your business up and running.
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2.3.2006 Microsoft: 10 Vista Activations
Microsoft today talked to bit-tech in a bid to reassure the enthusiast community about the licensing terms of Windows Vista.
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27.10.2006 BitDefender for Windows Vista v.10.2
BitDefender, an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today the availability of BitDefender v10 security solutions for Microsoft Windows Vista based on 32bit.
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24.1.2007Top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate already leaked to the public, and the the official bits coming May 5, there's been a lot of hype surrounding
Windows 7, with generally positive reviews from the community. Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't... and some of what it should of been. If
you're using XP or Vista, there's no excuse not to upgrade to Windows 7. In no particular order, here are my top 10 reasons why: Virtual XP
Mode: Many users and businesses have been reluctant to upgrade past Windows XP, and who can blame them? Microsoft had to keep extending support for
Windows XP for this reason.
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28.04.2009Intriguing theory on DirectX 10 and its absence from Windows XP
The parties involved would
never admit whether
this
Inquirer story is true,
but it's entertaining enough
that we just had to link to
it. Grain of salt and all that
(the article lists no sources,
for example) but the theory as
reported says that Microsoft
started off with sound
technical reasons for making
DirectX 10 exclusive to
Windows Vista. Due to alleged
driver troubles from Nvidia,
Microsoft is supposed to have
loosened the requirements, and
now its supposedly very
possible to port DirectX 10
back to Windows XP.
Even if DX 10 on XP can be
done, Microsoft won't allow
it for business reasons--it
wants people to buy Vista, or
so the story goes
One
of our missions out here at E3
this week is to talk to as
many PC gaming developers as
possible to find out what the
near-term future of DirectX 10
looks like, especially for the
purposes of benchmarking PCs
and graphics cards. We don't
expect to hear from anyone
about DirectX 10 coming to
Windows XP, but we do expect
plenty of "no comments" when
we ask about this story.
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11.07.2007Update: Great Chinese Firewall under fire
Recently I have been covering the topic of the aptly named 'Great Firewall of China'. This issue of internet based censorship has had some
rather serious issues of morality surrounding it, with many of the reasons behind China's actions caked in a layer of uncertainty. Without going
too much into the details of the background, due to the fact that I want to concentrate on the recently updated news, please follow the numbered links
should you wish to read my initial stories, if you haven't already. If you have, just skip past and read on. 1. China upgrades the Great
Firewall, requires new software 2.
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28.06.2009Top 10 reasons you shouldn't be a project manager
You've all seen top 10 lists of the best traits of a project manager or the top 10 skills of a project manager. However, project management is not
for everyone. Many people have some of the traits to be a good project manager, but they also have many traits that make them a bad fit for the
position. Here's my list of indications that you may not be well suited to be a project manager. Note: These are not in any ranked order.
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01.10.2007The Vista wow becomes a whisper
I wasn’t
a big fan of the “Wow” campaign around Windows Vista. But its
newest incarnation
“100
Reasons Why Everyone’s So Speechless” might be even worse.
The new site lists 100 reasons users should take a
closer look at Windows Vista. No. 1 is “It makes using your PC a breeze.” No. 100 is “Because your network is the backbone of your
business (Network Diagnostics and Troubleshooting).”
Seeing Windows Vista for the first time may leave you searching for words.
Many people just say ‘Wow.’ Here are 100 reasons why,” the site says.
When Microsoft launched Windows Vista in
January, execs knew they needed a succinct way to explain why users should upgrade to the new OS. Not a list of 50 reasons. But something that would
roll off the tongue of salesclerks and PC makers in a 30-second pitch.
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22.10.2007Five reasons why XP will never die
Preston Gralla: Microsoft is doing its best to kill Windows XP, but that's not going to happen. No matter what the company does, the operating system
will live on. Here are five reasons why XP will never die.
Enterprises want XP
There's no escaping the
simple fact that enterprises have snubbed Vista, and show no signs of abandoning XP. Just a few days ago, Forrester said that a survey of 50,000
enterprise users found that throughout 2007, Windows XP use remained at a steady 89%. Vista grew from zero to 6% in that same time, but that came
about because users moved from Windows 2000 to Vista, not from XP to Vista. Don't expect corporations to switch to Vista from XP in 2008.
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03.04.2008Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe's 64-bit Roadmap
As you've probably seen, among the great features in the Lightroom 2.0 beta is its ability to run 64-bit-native on Mac (Intel, 10.5.x) and Windows
(Vista 64). If you think it feels great to beat Aperture to the punch here, you're right. :-)
What does 64-bit computing mean, practically
speaking? In a nutshell, it lets an application address very large amounts of memory--specifically, more than 4 gigabytes. This is great for pro
photographers with large collections of high-res images: Lightroom being able to address more RAM means less time swapping images into and out of
memory during image processing-intensive operations...
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07.04.2008Everything you always wanted to know about Google...
"Everything you always wanted to know about Google, but were afraid to ask" was the title of this very interesting 34-slide presentation on Google
prepared by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of this just 10 years old giant given the number of services
it has continuously released, updated (and sometimes shut down) or acquired. The presentation gives a great overview of the company's overall
strategy and the reasons it has become what it is today.
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08.12.2008Whitehurst Takes Over as New Red Hat CEO
Red Hat President and CEO Matthew Szulik announced today on his blog that he would be stepping down from his leadership roles in the Linux vendor.
" After almost a decade of leading Red Hat, I have decided to transition my CEO and President role for the personal reasons I have already
discussed. " According to the AP, these personal reasons are based mainly on serious health issues within his family. However, Szulik won't
completely leave the company: " It’s my privilege to continue serving this great company in the role of Chairman of the Board. "
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21.12.2007Gritty Nits - Fix Internet Explorer 7 Crashes in Vista
A lot of you may have seen Internet Explorer crash "Internet Explorer has stopped working" when closing the browser in Windows Vista. It happens all
too often and while it no longer takes the operating system out with it, it is still annoying.
There are a lot of reasons why Internet
Explorer will do this, but one we have found that really stands out is Adobe's Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX
control. Seven (7) of
ten (10) IE 7 crashes I have personally seen, are related to the Flash Player plug-in.
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neowin.net - 30.01.2008
What Went Wrong with Windows Vista?
December is the month for year-end reviews. We begin our first 2007 look back by offering 10 reasons why Vista failed to "WOW" consumers or
businesses. Make no mistake: Despite PR assertions otherwise, Windows Vista did not meet Microsoft expectations.
-Windows Vista
advertising ended almost as abruptly as it started
-Microsoft beat the drum a bit too loudly about the number of Vista licenses shipped
-Windows Ultimate Extras became a real dreamscape of empty promises
-Microsoft already is advancing plans for Vista-successor Windows
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neowin.net - 07.12.2007
Building an app that uses Office documents? Win an Xbox!
James Senior: If you're a partner or company developing an application that does stuff with Office documents - saving, loading, storing - whatever,
then you might want to consider building it with OpenXML built in. Why would you do this? Two reasons really.
- We're running
a competition to find the best apps that utilise Open XML. If we think you've got what it takes, you'll win an Xbox 360 Elite. We've got 10 of
them to give away so if you think your dev teams deserve some wind-down time after they've bee cutting the code and burning the midnight oil - this
might be the thing to make you their favourite boss!
Enter the competition here!
- Aside from the Xbox there are some great business reasons why
you would add this functionality to your app. In fact, if you've implemented features that use WordML you've done most of the hard work already!
Benefits to using OpenXML include...
winbeta.org - 14.12.2007
The top 10 reasons Web sites get hacked
Web security is at the top of customers' minds after many well-publicized personal data breaches, but the people who actually build Web applications
aren't paying much attention to security, experts say.
"They're totally ignoring it," says IT consultant Joel Snyder. "When
you go to your Web site design team, what you're looking for is people who are creative and able to build these interesting Web sites... That's No.
1, and No. 9 on the list would be that it's a secure Web site."
The biggest problem is designers aren't building walls within
Web applications to partition and validate data moving between parts of the system, he says.
Security is usually something
that's considered after a site is built rather than before it is designed, agrees Khalid Kark, senior analyst at Forrester.
winbeta.org - 06.10.2007
Announcing the RTM of Windows Vista SP1
Mike Nash, Windows Product Management Group: Today we are excited to announce that we have released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing
(RTM) for our first set of languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese).
Service Pack 1 is a very important
milestone because it addresses many of the key issues that our customers have identified with Windows Vista over the last year both, directly and
through programs like the Customer Experience Improvement Program. With Service Pack 1, we have made great progress in performance, reliability and
compatibility. One of the great things about my job is that I get to play with the latest builds of our products -- I've personally been running
Windows Vista SP1 pretty exclusively for a few months and I've noticed that my systems run faster and more reliably than they did with the "Gold"
release of Windows Vista.
winbeta.org - 04.02.2008
Sophos on Symantec's Vista Complaints
In an interview with BetaNews,
Sophos senior security
consultant Ron O'Brien talks
about PatchGuard, a new
Microsoft feature of Windows
Vista that is the subject of a
recent round of complaints by
security vendor Symantec.
While Symantec says PatchGuard
gives Microsoft a platform for
abusing its competitors,
Sophos says it doesn't see a
problem, for some compelling
reasons...
betanews.com - 29.09.2006
AMD's First Catalyst Drivers for Vista Will Support HD DVD, Blu-ray
Today, one day ahead of
Microsoft's consumer edition
Windows Vista rollout, the
first ATI Catalyst drivers for
Vista are being released.
They're officially numbered
7.1 (version 8.31 for XP is
already in the field). But for
the first time, they're being
released by AMD, and this
afternoon, AMD is accepting a
great deal of the credit...
betanews.com - 30.01.2007
50 Reasons to switch from Windows to OS X?
Or, a lost sheep’s ongoing struggle to stay relevant in this internet age. Now don't get me wrong, I have always had quite a lot of respect
for Chris Pirillo, but something happened when Microsoft talked up Longhorn and eventually shipped Vista. Chris was enraged most of the time because
the promise of "Longhorn 2003" never happened, and I think he probably feels that Microsoft cheated themselves, and him out of a worthwhile upgrade.
Ever since, he hasn't involved himself in Microsoft (lab) events and has become quite outspoken against Windows Vista.
From John's AbsoluteVista Blog: In a post last week, on St. Valentine’s Day no less, Chris Pirillo states his 50 reasons to switch
from Windows (any version?) to OS X.
After getting past his preamble about neutrality, he delivers his thoughts. Actually, we are
supposed to take his thoughts as neutral since it is not a Windows bash. Furthermore, since in his opening statements he declared his relationships
with some sponsors, we should take the product plugs as gospel. Feel free to ingest a grain/several grains of salt with his recommendations.
I have taken it upon myself to provide a public service by attempting to debunk some of the outright errors, factual errors, product plugs, and
gross misconceptions in his beliefs.
neowin.net - 19.02.2008
Vote For The Best Windows Vista Website!
WinVistaClub, in association with 'Windows Vista - The Official Magazine', has organised a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista
Blogs and Websites.
The following 10 websites have been being declared by the Judges, as the Top 10 Vista websites and have been put up
for a public vote.
MintyWhite Windows Guides
Vista Revisited
Windows Vista Update
Windows Vista For Beginners
Tweaking With Vishal
MaximumPCGuides
Windows Vista Forums
The Road To Know Where
Windows Vista Weblog
Vista & XP Media
Center Support Community
Click HERE to cast your vote for your
favourite Windows Vista Website, and in the process also get to know some other real good ones !
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neowin.net - 02.09.2008
Access, Organize, and Manage
Your Documents More Easily
with Windows Vista
Columnist Stephanie Krieger
introduces some great new
tools for managing your
documents more easily using
Windows Vista...
microsoft.com/windowsvista - 30.06.2006
Businesses Still in No Rush to Upgrade to Windows Vista
As the one-year anniversary of the business availability of Windows Vista approaches, many corporations are still holding off on upgrading to the new
operating system.
The most commonly cited reasons are the cost of replacing the new hardware required to run Vista optimally,
some of the software used by those businesses is still not compatible with Vista, Vista's new and increased functionality and security features are
more trouble than they are worth, and Windows XP still meets their current needs.
"It appears that many organizations view Vista
as fine for new hardware, but not for upgrades to existing hardware. I am recommending that businesses wait for Vista until they do a hardware refresh
and then get it preinstalled," said Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft.
winbeta.org - 08.11.2007
