Microsoft: Fast start for Vista in businesses
Microsoft is predicting that Windows Vista will be adopted by companies at twice the speed as its predecessor, Windows XP.
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1.10.2006 Microsoft hopes Vista keeps businesses happy
Bill Hartnett got accustomed to the screaming. As Microsoft Corp.s manager of software sales to financial services companies, Hartnett used to get pelted with complaints about the security and reliability of Microsofts products.
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6.12.2006 Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest.
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29.11.2007 Businesses focus on Windows 7, XP over Vista
Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is still playing second fiddle to XP among business users, with more enterprises investigating the unreleased Windows 7 than its predecessor.
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2.10.2008 Small Businesses Switch to Vista Fastest, Study Says
Nearly half of businesses are in some phase of preparing to update desktops to Windows Vista, with small businesses moving the fastest to implement the OS, according to a xreport released last week.
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21.1.2008 Businesses to get final Win 7 in July
Microsoft officials have said the company expects to release Windows 7 to manufacturing before the end of this month.
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10.7.2009 Microsoft: Promotions for Small Businesses who are Legit
Microsoft offers small businesses promotions for free software trials and business tools, as long as they ensure that they run genuine copies of Windows.
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20.3.2007 40% of Businesses Will Say 'Yes' to Windows 7 by the End of 2010
Windows Vista failed to gain traction with business users, and its successor will not be spared a similar fate, according to a survey put together by ScriptLogic.
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13.7.2009 Microsoft Offers Incentives to Businesses to Use Live Search
Software giant tries to gain on Google by encouraging large businesses' employees to use Microsoft's Live Search engine.
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16.3.2007 Microsoft: Public Beta VoIP System for Businesses Coming
Millions of users are expected to test Office Communications Server 2007 to make sure the transition from traditional phone technologies will be easy for end users.
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8.3.2007 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 - lets see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vistas tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vistas image is tarnished. And its corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008Small Businesses Switch to Vista Fastest, Study Says
Nearly half of businesses are in some phase of preparing to update desktops to Windows Vista, with small businesses moving the fastest to implement
the OS, according to a xreport released last week. The number of organizations evaluating and testing Vista increased from 29 percent in February 2007
to 48 percent by early November 2007, found the report, commissioned by reseller CDW and based on information collected by Walker Information from 772
IT decision makers. Moreover, about 35 percent of companies are currently implementing or have implemented Vista already, compared to 12 percent last
February, the report said. The report is the third of a wave of reports on Vista adoption that CDW has done since the OS was in its final testing
phases in October 2006. In the latest phase of release, which tracked Vista adoption from October 31 until Nov. 7, 2007, small businesses comprised 53
percent of those companies either using or evaluating Vista. The higher-education segment came in second, with 49 percent reporting that they are
evaluating or using the OS, while medium-to-large businesses were third, with 48 percent.
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21.01.2008Businesses 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.
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08.11.2007McAfee: Businesses will dodge Vista in 2008
Vista uptake is unlikely to increase dramatically during 2008, according to security vendor McAfee, who said that businesses are "leery" of
upgrading from current Microsoft operating systems.
One reason businesses have not been keen to upgrade to Vista is the hardware
that is needed to handle the resource-hungry operating system, David Marcus, security research manager for McAfee Avert Labs, told ZDNet Australia
sister site ZDNet.co.uk.
"In 2007 there has been less than 10 percent market penetration for Vista," said Marcus. "There
hasn't been a huge adoption. Most people haven't upgraded because of the hardware upgrade needed."
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20.11.2007Small businesses not as dependent on XP moving to Vista fastest
Nearly half of businesses are in some phase of preparing to update desktops to Windows Vista, with small businesses moving the fastest to implement
the OS, according to a report released Monday.
The number of organizations evaluating and testing Vista increased from 29% in
February 2007 to 48% by early November 2007, found the report, commissioned by reseller CDW and based on information collected by Walker Information
from 772 IT decision makers. Moreover, about 35% of companies are currently implementing or have implemented Vista already, compared to 12% last
February, the report said.
The report is the third of a wave of reports on Vista adoption that CDW has done since the OS was in
its final testing phases in October 2006. In the latest phase of release, which tracked Vista adoption from Oct. 31 to Nov. 7, 2007, small businesses
comprised 53% of those companies either using or evaluating Vista. The higher-education segment came in second, with 49% reporting that they are
evaluating or using the OS, while medium-to-large businesses were third, with 48%.
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15.01.2008Microsoft recommends upgrade to Vista before Windows 7
As Windows 7 gets ready for its next release, it could be already hurting Vista's remaining chances with businesses and organizations. Microsoft
has started to push Vista to its corporate customers. Earlier this month Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer warned companies to upgrade from XP. Following
Ballmer, Gavriella Schuster, Senior Director in Windows Product Management group urges businesses to upgrade to Windows Vista now, even if they plan
to move to Windows 7 when it ships. Schuster argues that the benefits of Vista upgrade would outweigh the costs of upgrading to Vista and urges
companies to start Windows 7 Beta testing as soon as possible.
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12.02.2009Microsoft: Fast start for Vista in businesses
Microsoft is predicting that
Windows Vista will be adopted
by companies at twice the
speed as its predecessor,
Windows XP.
Twelve
months after the release of
Vista, Microsoft expects that
usage share of the oft-delayed
operating system in businesses
will be double that of XP a
year after it shipped, said
Brad Goldberg, general manager
for Windows product management
at the software maker.
"Vista is built for
businesses," Goldberg said.
"We're giving businesses the
tools they need to get out of
the gate faster with
Vista...Our goal is to have
twice as fast deployment of
Vista than for any other
operating system."
Microsoft declined to give
its own figures on Windows
XP's usage percentages, and
instead referred to research
by IDC. According to the
analyst company, XP was
installed on about 10 percent
of enterprise PCs after a
year. That would put the goal
for Vista at 20 percent.
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01.10.2006Microsoft predicts Vista stampede
Software giant claims
businesses will rush to
upgrade to Vista, but analysts
paint a different picture
Microsoft is
predicting that Windows Vista
will be adopted by companies
twice as fast as its
predecessor, Windows XP.
Twelve months after
the release of Vista,
Microsoft expects that usage
share of the oft-delayed
operating system in businesses
will be double that of XP a
year after it shipped, said
Brad Goldberg, general manager
for Windows product management
at the software maker.
"Vista is built for
businesses," Goldberg said.
"We're giving businesses the
tools they need to get out of
the gate faster with Vista...
Our goal is to have twice as
fast deployment of Vista than
for any other operating
system."
Microsoft declined to give
its own figures on Windows
XP's usage percentages, and
instead referred to research
by IDC. According to the
analyst company, XP was
installed on about 10 percent
of enterprise PCs after a
year. That would put the goal
for Vista at 20 percent.
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02.10.2006Gartner: Large businesses shouldn't skip Vista
Planning to skip Windows Vista altogether, waiting for Microsoft's next operating system?
For some companies, it's a tempting
option, but they need to consider it carefully, or they could end up feeling some pain down the line, according to analyst group Gartner.
Gartner said companies have "significantly delayed" the start of their Windows Vista migrations, with most planning to begin deployment in
late 2008 or even 2009, making some think of skipping Vista altogether.
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07.12.2007Businesses having second thoughts about Vista
Fewer businesses are now
planning to move to Windows
Vista than seven months ago,
according to a survey by patch
management vendor PatchLink
Corp., while more said they
will either stick with the
Windows they have, or turn to
Linux or Mac OS X.
In a just-released poll of
more than 250 of its clients,
PatchLink noted that only 2%
said they are already running
Vista, while another 9% said
they planned to roll out Vista
in the next three months. A
landslide majority, 87%, said
they would stay with their
existing version(s) of
Windows.
Those
numbers contrasted with a
similar survey the Scottsdale,
Ariz.-based vendor published
in December 2006. At the time,
43% said they had plans to
move to Vista while just 53%
planned to keep what Windows
they had.
Today's hesitation also
runs counter to what companies
thought they would do as of
late last year. In
PatchLink's December poll,
28% said they would deploy
Vista within the first year of
its release. But by the
results of the latest survey,
fewer than half as many --
just 11% -- will have opted
for the next-generation
operating system by Nov. 1. ..
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31.07.2007Report: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008
Forrester Research has issued a new study in which it predicts that at least one-third of enterprises will begin to deploy Windows Vista
enterprise-wide by mid-2008.
Driving Vista adoption will be an increase in applications certified as Vista-compatible and new PC
form factors which are ready to run Vista smoothly and at price points will make compatible machines more affordable than they are today, the
Forrester researchers said in their
How Windows
Vista Will Shake Up The State Of The Enterprise Operating System report, released on November 12.
Forrester acknowledged
that a number of businesses are waiting for Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 before starting their Vista deployment rollouts. But according to current
schedule, Vista SP1 is set to roll out in the first calendar quarter of next year.
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14.11.2007Vista Gets New App
Compatibility Tool
With any major new Windows
release such as Vista,
application compatibility
becomes a critical concern for
businesses and individuals
considering an upgrade. No
matter how much Microsoft
promotes the new version,
users aren't going to make
the switch unless their
applications continue to
function seamlessly...
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18.04.2006EU victory leaves questions for Vista
European antitrust regulators' victory over Microsoft was a resounding smack at the software maker's old business practices, but it left analysts
divided as to how the company's new businesses, including Windows Vista, might be affected.
Last year, Microsoft faced
complaints from rivals about the way the pending Vista operating system handled search, antivirus security and certain document formats, among other
things.
European Union antitrust chief Neelie Kroes told Microsoft in March 2006 that she, too, was worried features in Vista
could limit customers' choices and competitors' ability to develop programs that run smoothly on Windows.
Ahead of Vista's
November 2006 launch to businesses, Microsoft said it made changes that solved EU and competitors' concerns. Regulators, however, did not give
Microsoft the green light, saying it should know how comply with antitrust law...
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18.09.2007Study: Vista still struggling to gain business users
In a new study, Forrester Research uncovers some good news for Microsoft: Vista usage among businesses is up by more than 40 percent since January.
The bad news: still, fewer than 10 percent of the 50,000 companies surveyed use Vista.
More troubling for Microsoft may be the
fact that most of those Vista installs are replacing versions of Windows other than Windows XP, which remains popular with both businesses and
consumers. Forrester says 87.1 percent of companies surveyed continue to use Windows XP.
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24.07.2008CompUSA to Sell Vista November 30
Small businesses looking to
get an early start on
upgrading to Windows Vista
won't need to wait until the
new operating system's late
January 2007 launch after all.
Microsoft has partnered with
CompUSA to sell a special kit
containing Vista Business and
Office 2007 Small Business...
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14.11.2006XP and Vista: A Look at the Numbers
Popular opinion is that Microsofts Windows Vista operating system is a dud, a view fueled in part by a low adoption rate among businesses. But a look
back at history shows why it may be premature to write Vista off.
By the end of 2007, businesses computers running Vista
accounted for just 3% of the nearly 1 billion computers in use worldwide, according to the research company Gartner. Sounds dismal, but thats the same
percentage that ran the business version of Microsofts previous OS, XP, in 2002, the first year after its release. (Out of 582 million total
computers.) By the end of 2003, business computers running XP accounted for 10% of the total. Gartner projects that by the end of this year, business
computers running Vista will make up 13% of all computers.
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10.05.2008Microsoft Set to Launch Vista to Businesses
At an event this Thursday at
NASDAQ in New York City,
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
will officially launch
versions of Windows Vista,
Office 2007, and Exchange 2007
aimed at big businesses. Vista
and Office 2007 were completed
earlier this month, but
Microsoft doesn't expect to
ship Exchange until sometime
in December. A larger,
consumer-oriented launch event
for Windows Vista and Office
2007 is still scheduled for
January 30, 2007.
The timing of the business
launch event is a bit odd:
Because consumers won't be
able to get Vista-based PCs
until January, some may hold
off on new PC purchases this
holiday season. But the
versions of Vista and Office
2007 that Microsoft is
shipping starting tomorrow
will not be made available to
consumers, though news of the
launch could be confusing to
them. Instead, only businesses
with volume license agreements
with Microsoft will be able to
get the code now.
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30.11.2006IT Organizations: Cautious Vista Testing and Deployment
Earlier today, CDW issued the
second of three reports on
businesses' plans for
adopting Windows Vista. While
more IT organizations are
evaluating Vista than the
first survey, fewer number are
planning upgrades.
November's survey found
that 21 percent of
organizations were evaluating
or using Vista. In the newer
survey the number climbed to
29 percent. Among those
businesses not evaluating or
using Windows Vista, the
number planning to upgrade
eventually declined (to 54
percent from 60 percent) and
the number with no upgrade
plans increased (to 19 percent
from 15 percent).
CDW commissioned Walker
Interactive, which surveyed
753 IT managers from all size
businesses and government and
educational institutions, for
the study. Respondents
"identified themselves as
being somewhat familiar with
Windows Vista." The survey
results are not necessarily a
current snapshot. Walker
Interactive collected the data
in late February.
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09.05.2007Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
CIO Jury: "It could be a long wait"
Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows
Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest.
One year after the business launch
of Vista, only one of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they had plans to move to the new OS in 2008.
Most
plan to stick with the stability of Windows XP and implement Service Pack 3 for that OS before they even start thinking about Vista.
Adrian Hughes, head of IS for insurance company Amlin, said: "We are sticking with XP and look to take XP SP3 in 2009. Vista not until 2011,
unless there is a good reason to migrate, by which time the next OS may be out so we would then skip a generation."
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29.11.2007IT Pros: If Not Vista, Maybe Macintosh
Vista can't seem to get a break. Yet another survey points to large numbers of businesses with no adoption plans. Oh yeah, Vista malaise may benefit
Mac OS X.
Today,
KACE Networks released the
study, which it commissioned King Research to conduct. KACE has vested
interest in Vista deployments, as the company is a provider of migration products and services. Seeing as stiff Vista resistance isn't necessarily
good for KACE, I'm not going to give the usual qualifiers for commissioned research.
The King Research study somewhat jives with
last week's Forrester Research report, which also indicated lots of
businesses are uncommitted to Windows Vista.
Fifty-three percent of the 900 IT professionals surveyed by King have no plans to deploy Vista. Forrester's survey put the number at 38 percent.
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19.11.2007Microsoft offers free Vista-to-XP downgrade help
Microsoft has said it would offer free technical support to small businesses that buy new PCs with Windows Vista in the next three months, its latest
attempt to convince users that moving to Vista is a good idea. And if those efforts are for naught, Microsoft will help those users downgrade from
Vista to Windows XP, the same maneuver several large computer makers, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard, have used in recent months to continue
offering the older operating system to buyers.
The offer, dubbed Windows Vista Small Business Assurance, is available to businesses with
fewer than 50 employees or 25 PCs, and it provides free telephone support through the end of October to companies that buy new PCs with Vista Business
or Vista Ultimate between now and Sept. 30, according to details posted on the Microsoft Web site. Only businesses buying new hardware can take
advantage of the free support; companies upgrading existing computers from, say, Windows XP, don't qualify.
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