Microsoft Vista slow to take off
Windows Vista has been on the market for nearly a month now, but enterprise users and industry experts agree that Microsoft's latest and greatest OS still isn't yet ready to replace XP.
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3.1.2007 Group predicts May release for Vista
Over the course of the last two weeks, Microsoft has been waging in a public dispute with the European Commission (EC). The EC has raised questions about whether or not Windows Vista complies with the group's antitrust regulations.
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21.9.2006 Vista sales slow despite record MS profit
The sales rate of Microsoft's Windows Vista is gradually slowing down as the operating system reaches the one-year anniversary of its release to businesses, according to the company's latest financial results.
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28.10.2007 Windows Vista Promises Group Policy Overhaul
Tech Analysis: The Group Policy Management Console will be the primary tool for domainwide Group Policy Objects management for the foreseeable future and that the tool automatically will grow and evolve in step with the Windows operating system.
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21.4.2006 Microsoft starts the Vista Feature Focus Beta Group
Dear Windows Beta Tester,
The Windows Beta Team, in conjunction with the Windows Product Groups, invites you to join us for the Feature Focus program. This optional testing opportunity is your chance to explore new technologies of Windows Vista and Longhorn Server with the Windows Team as your guide.
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Group Policy Settings Reference Windows Vista Beta 2
This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the administrative template files(admx/adml) delivered with Windows Vista Beta 2 (build 5384).
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26.8.2006 Windows Vista: Multi-Version Investments in Group Policy
As it turns out, the most "killer application" that utilized Active Directory back in 2000 was as the identity store for Exchange Server.
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15.12.2006 Group Policy Settings Reference for Microsoft Windows Vista RC1
This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the administrative template files (admx/adml) delivered with Windows Vista RC1 (build 5600).
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13.9.2006 From XP SP3 and Vista SP1 to Windows 7 - the Slow Death of 32-bit Windows
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 operating system from Microsoft with support for 32-bit CPUs.
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31.7.2008 Zune's slow first day no surprise
Donna Murphy is no fan of the ubiquitous iPod music player so on Tuesday she became one of the first to buy Microsoft's new rival Zune device.
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15.11.2006 Xbox 360 Off to Slow Start in Japan
Microsoft may have to try a little harder in marketing the Xbox 360 to Japanese consumers if initial reports coming out of the country Saturday are correct. According to several press outlets, reaction to the new console from Japanese customers appeared to be somewhat apathetic.
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11.12.2005 Study: Zune Sales Slow But Steady
While Microsoft is adamant that sales of its Zune player are 'meeting expectations,' data from market research firm Current Analysis indicates that the device failed to break into the top 10 in sales, and is competing in the wrong market segment.
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6.1.2007 Will XP SP3 Slow Vistas Adoption?
Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry.
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21.2.2008 Group Policy Log View
This page provides the Group Policy Log view tool for Windows Vista.
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4.12.2006 Microsoft Claims Vista's Aero Interface Doesn't Slow PCs
Running Windows Vista's new Aero graphical interface doesn't impact PC performance, a study sponsored by Microsoft claims.
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2.1.2007 Microsoft and The MPO Group Announce Counterfeiting Settlement
Replicator agrees to pay Microsoft for producing counterfeit software.
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19.12.2006 Open-Source Group Razzes Microsoft With 'BadVista.org'
An open-source group mocked Microsoft on a newly launched Web site dubbed BadVista.org and claimed the Windows operating system is a "power grab" to steal control over users' computers.
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19.12.2006 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008Analysts: PC growth will slow, while notebooks remain a bright spot
Worldwide PC growth will slow to a veritable snail's pace in 2009, according to newly revised numbers from analyst group IDC. But still, the revamped
forecast for notebook PCs isn't exactly (or entirely) bleak...
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04.12.2008Will XP SP3 Slow Vista`s Adoption?
Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry. The upcoming
release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 will further slow the rate of business adoption of Windows Vista by extending the life of the older operating
system, some analysts say.
Microsoft quietly released Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 to the masses Feb. 19. But the company
finds itself in a Catch-22, given its need to provide comprehensive security to protect its large installed base of business customers still running
XP while, at the same time, encouraging those customers to upgrade to the new Vista operating system. But the more secure, stable and reliable XP is,
the less reason they have to upgrade in a hurry.
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21.02.2008Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy.
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception. In this demo
I show how Vista outperforms Windows XP and I show the under the covers process traces of just how it achieves it."
"Demo environment
consists of two images. One Vista SP1 and the other Windows XP SP2 both on the same HDD IO and communicating across my home wireless network to a
Windows Server 2008 box on my main LAN. Once the two images get going latency gets introduced and things start to slow down....except Vista doesnt
slow down." Watch and see at
Edge TechNet.
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27.05.2008Five secrets to faster Vista starts
Oh, great. Here we go again.
The wise old men of mainstream tech journalism are once again repeating the conventional wisdom that
Vista is slow to start up and slow to shut down. Theyre wrong. I
proved this to my
satisfaction last spring (see also the
first and
second parts in the series) with tests on three separate systems, and Ive just
repeated the tests on a new crop of Vista PCs to verify that theres no new problem. The results are the same or better, perhaps reflecting incremental
improvements from the many reliability and performance updates since then.
In this post, Ill explain why theyre wrong and show
you how you can fix the problem if you encounter a slow startup.
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27.11.2007Join the Windows Vista
Discussion Group
Want to ask questions, share
information, or exchange ideas
about Windows Vista with
others, including experts from
around the globe? Come visit
the discussion group and post
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16.09.2005Will XP SP3 Slow Vista's Adoption?
Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry.
The upcoming release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 will further slow the rate of business adoption of Windows Vista by extending the life of the
older operating system, some analysts say.
Microsoft
quietly released Windows XP
Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 to the masses Feb. 19. But the company finds itself in a Catch-22, given its need to provide comprehensive security
to protect its large installed base of business customers still running XP while, at the same time, encouraging those customers to upgrade to the new
Vista operating system.
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21.02.2008Windows 2003 KB: Slow network communication from Vista RTM (6000) to Windows 2003 SP2
Brad Rutkowski: This was one issue I worked on for quite some time a few months ago. We found that Vista clients were taking forever to download
group policies from domain controllers in the regions while Vista SP1 and XP clients did not see the issue. If the local DC was running LH or Windows
2003 SP1, we didn't see any issue. If the server was running Windows 2003 SP2 though and had a certain type of hardware we would see the latency.
Based on customer reports, Windows Dev learned of more widespread devices in the network that dont understand greater window
scale factors. So, they improved the heuristics in SP1 for when to limit or disable auto-tuning, which is why we only saw in in Vista RTM and not
SP1.
The bug is in Windows 2003 SP2 and the details can be found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947773 So if you find that you have vista clients experiencing network
latency when hitting a Windows 2003 SP2 server (File server, DC, Exchange, etc) then you should look into this hotfix.
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31.01.2008Digital music to make up 41 percent of sales by 2013
CDs are still selling, but a report out yesterday from Jupiter Research says that the long slow decline isn't as slow as previously thought. But what
will make up for the drop in sales?..
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06.12.2008Screencast: Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP in network IO
Michael Kleef: Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista underperforms in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
In this demo I show how Vista outperforms Windows XP and I show the under the covers process traces of just how it achieves it.
Demo environment consists of two images. One Vista SP1 and the other Windows XP SP2 both on the same HDD IO and communicating across my home
wireless network to a Windows Server 2008 box on my main LAN. Once the two images get going latency gets introduced and things start to slow
down....except Vista doesnt slow down. Watch and see!
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08.05.2008Microsoft: First Month Vista Sales Double XP
Responding to media reports
that initial adoption of
Windows Vista has been slow
and news that certain
government agencies are
holding off on upgrading,
Microsoft announced Monday
that it sold more than 20
million copies of Vista in the
first month - double the
copies of Windows XP sold in
its first month...
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27.03.2007Windows Vista SP1 Will Uninstall Group Policy Management
Probably in response to a few users' bewilderment over the seemingly unrestricted accessibility of what had actually been one of Windows Vista's
most requested new security tools, Group Policy Management Console, Microsoft announced today that the act of installing Vista Service Pack 1 will
simply delete the tool altogether...
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29.08.2007Microsoft: Removal of Group Policy Tool from Vista 'Not Significant'
As part of a request to help modify its apparent stance on the upcoming removal of Group Policy Management Console from Microsoft's Windows Vista
Service Pack 1, a company spokesperson told BetaNews, "The removal of the GPMC tool with Service Pack 1 is not significant to the majority of
Windows Vista users."..
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05.09.2007Microsoft: Removal of Group Policy Tool from Vista SP1 'Not Significant'
As part of a request to help modify its apparent stance on the upcoming
removal of Group Policy
Management Console from Microsoft's Windows Vista Service Pack 1, a company spokesperson told BetaNews, "The removal of the GPMC tool with
Service Pack 1 is not significant to the majority of Windows Vista users."
This despite the continued presence of remnants of
the GPMC campaign, which touted its inclusion in Vista as a boon. "The Group Policy Management Console, or GPMC, was available as a download for
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003,"
reads one
TechNet page.
"A scriptable Microsoft Management Console, GPMC offered a single administrative tool for managing Group
Policy. GPMC is now built right into Windows Vista. This means that whenever you're ready to create or edit
, you'll have easy
access to the best tool for the job."..
winbeta.org - 05.09.2007
Novell CEO: We're Going to 'Attack' Vista
The 'alliance' between
Novell and Microsoft got a bit
weirder after Novell's CEO
indicated that he was pleased
by Vista's slow rate of
adoption, and will continue to
battle the company directly in
the marketplace...
betanews.com - 15.02.2007
Give the Microsoft Group Policy team your feedback
A message from the Group Policy team, inviting you to provide your feedback on how you use GP in Windows Vista:
The
Microsoft Group Policy team would like to hear from you! Please take a few minutes and complete the survey on how you use Group Policy to help
Microsoft enhance the manageability Group Policy provides to your organization. The survey can be found here and is completely anonymous. The
survey will remain open through Friday, September 28, 2007. Thank you in advance for your time and input!
The Microsoft
Group Policy Team
winbeta.org - 12.09.2007
Microsoft will alter desktop search in Vista SP1, beta due by the end of the year (Update 3)
The New York Times is providing a more detailed glimpse into
the settlement between
Microsoft and Google regarding
Vista's desktop search.
For one thing, we now know
the sources to the original
Reuters story were in fact the
lawyers involved in the case.
We also now know that the
changes involved to Vista
include the ability to let
Vista users "decide which
desktop search program they
want to use" and that
"selecting software from
Google or some other company
would no longer slow down the
computer as it does now":
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The settlement, reached in
recent days by state
prosecutors, the Justice
Department and Microsoft,
averted the prospect of
litigation over a complaint by
Google that Vista had been
designed to frustrate computer
users who want to use software
other than Microsofts to
search through files on their
hard drives.
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Lawyers involved in the
proceeding said the changes to
Vista would allow consumers to
decide which desktop search
program they want to use, and
that selecting software from
Google or some other company
would no longer slow down the
computer as it does now. They
said that as part of the
settlement, Microsoft would
let Vista users know how to
change their desktop search
program. But the settlement
would not require Microsoft to
make all the changes that
Google had sought.
Updates:
1 - C|net is
now
reporting that the changes
to Vista's search features
will be made available as part
of the first service pack to
Windows Vista. Furthemore, in
the filing with the DOJ,
Microsoft noted that the beta
(not final) version of the of
the first service pack for
Vista is expected by the end
of the year.
Read
more for further updates.....
winbeta.org - 20.06.2007
Give the Group Policy team your feedback
Heres your chance to make a difference in the way Group Policies are setup in future versions of Windows, the Group Policy team has setup a survey
that targets IT admins specifically that use Group Policy on Windows Vista in the work environment.
A message from the Group Policy team,
inviting you to provide your feedback on how you use GP in Windows Vista:The Microsoft Group Policy team would like to hear from you!
Please take a few minutes and complete the survey on how you use Group Policy to help Microsoft enhance the manageability Group Policy provides to
your organization. The survey can be found here and is completely anonymous. The survey will remain open through Friday, September 28, 2007. Thank you in advance for
your time and input!
The Microsoft Group Policy Team
neowin.net - 12.09.2007
Apple Mac sales slow in November, Microsoft Windows rises
NPD Group Inc, which monitors retail sales, has found that sales of Apple Macs in the United States have remained pretty much the same as they were
last November, falling by just 1 percent, while sales of Microsoft Windows PCs have risen 7 percent. The research found that sales of desktop
computers as a whole have dropped 20 percent, with Windows desktop sales falling by 15 percent and Macs falling 38 percent. Meanwhile, notebook sales
have risen. Sales of Apple Macbooks rose by 22 percent in November, while sales of Windows notebooks rose by just 15 percent. However, the rise of
Windows overall may be just down to cost.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 16.12.2008
Windows Vista: Hit or Miss with Small Business
After half a decade of development and more than a few (expected) delays, Windows Vista was released to retail customers a year ago this past January
30.
In addition to improved security, a slick new interface, integrated search and hundreds of other features, Vista also came
with fairly demanding performance requirements, slow boot-up times, sluggish performance and (expected) bugs.
So how is Vista
faring among small businesses a year after its launch? As with many Microsoft products that came before it, Vista evokes a classic
either-love-it-or-hate it response.
winbeta.org - 20.02.2008
Sun Rebuilds Microelectronics Division, Renews SPARC Interest
Dispelling any notions from
analysts that by open-sourcing
the design of its SPARC
processors, it's continuing
its slow exit from the chip
production business, Sun
Microsystems yesterday
announced it is reforming the
"Microelectronics
Group" division that
during the 1990s was the
standard-bearer for RISC
processing...
betanews.com - 29.03.2007
