See Windows Vista Run with 0 (Zero) RAM
That's right! Windows Vista can run using a total of zero system memory. Well, bear with me, it will all make sense in the end.
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5.10.2007 Run Vista SP1! Ruuuuuun!
Make no mistake about it, the RTM for Windows Vista's first Service Pack is just around the corner. It is only a matter of passing into the next year. Microsoft indicated the first quarter of 2008 as a rather blurred deadline for the serving of Windows Vista SP1. Case in point:
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15.12.2007 Windows Vista Coach Tour: Always on the run
Hi everyone! We've had a busy, busy couple of days -- we've put a lot of miles behind us, eaten in countless restaurants (while trying to avoid fast food), slept in different beds each night, and most importantly, met a ton of customers.
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19.1.2007 Half Of Corporate PCs Can't Run Vista, Researcher Says
About half of corporate PCs are not equipped to run all the features of Windows Vista, and companies should plan to gradually deploy the upcoming operating system through new computers, rather than take the more expensive alternative of buying new hardware for older machines, a research firm said Monday.
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10.4.2006 Half of American Business PCs Can't Run Vista
About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium.
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7.12.2006 Microsoft Australia installing new PC's just to run Vista
I have just got off the phone with a Microsoft product support specialist in Australia who, when asked if he was using Vista, confirmed that they are installing Vista tomorrow - as the new computers to run it have recently arrived!
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5.3.2007 Windows Vista Beta2 users to run as standard user
David Cross a Director of Program Management with Windows Security has posted today over at the UAC blog that the users accounts created on Windows Vista Beta2 will be standard users. Yep, thats right...not an Admin, not a Protected Admin, but a standard user.
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3.4.2006 Vista vs. XP in Performace Test
Our user thepodest on
his blog compare performance tests of Windows Vista and Windows XP on his computer. Here are the results.
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22.5.2007 New Windows Vista Test Drive Website
"The Windows Vista Business test drive allows you to try this latest operating system from Microsoft..."
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6.1.2007 Windows Vista ReadyBoost Test Round-up
ActiveWin has posted up a review of 3 Windows Vista capable ReadyBoost USB sticks.
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15.1.2007 New Test Version of Windows Vista SP1 Available
But you won't get a download! Microsoft made a new test version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available. The Redmond company is in full throttle with the development of the first service pack for Vista as the refresh will be delivered for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers by mid September.
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4.9.2007 Want to test Vista SP1? Anyone can, starting next week
As you heard here last week, Microsoft is making the Release Candidate (RC) test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers this week and to the general public the week of December 10.
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5.12.2007 New Vista SP1 test build public
After saying it planned to make its latest test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers only, Microsoft has done an about-face and made the code available to the public.
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12.1.2008 Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista
Though Windows 7 edged out Vista in our lab tests, you may not notice much of a difference.
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7.5.2009 500 Hour Test of Tomorrow's Windows Vista
Only Nine More Months Until Windows Vista Goes Live?
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1.6.2006 Microsoft invites hackers to test Windows Vista
After suffering embarrassing security exploits over the past several years, Microsoft Corp. is trying a new tactic: inviting some of the world's best-known computer experts to try to poke holes in Vista, the next generation of its Windows operating system.
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3.8.2006 How to Run IE 7 without installing it
If you want to test IE7 without the risk of installing a beta software, here is a simple way to do it. This method does not install IE 7 the usual way- instead you just run it from the installer package and hence your system does not get littered with beta dlls all over the place.
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17.4.2006 Microsoft Ends Week of Delays With a New Vista Test Build
It's not the next Community Technology Preview build, slated to go to two million testers. But Microsoft is releasing Friday to selected testers a brand-new build of Vista on which testers are counting for more stability.
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26.3.2006 Windows Vista, Longhorn Server and IE 7 Beta Test Reboot
Testers who responded to the Microsoft call up to be re-included into the Windows Longhorn Server beta test have been notified that the test has been "restarted" under the old name "Windows Vista, Longhorn Server and IE 7 Beta"
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16.1.2007 Free Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 Test Drive
Microsoft has started pressing the acceleration pedal of the marketing of Windows Vista, now complete with Service Pack 1.
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11.6.2008 Ex-MSNBC.com Head to Run MSN.com
Microsoft publicly announced Thursday that it had named John Nicol to head its MSN.com division, who pledged to push for increased investment and "and acquisitions if we need it," however he declined to be more specific.
Nicol had previously served as the head of MSNBC.com several years ago.
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12.2.2006 Gigabit audio to run on Ethernet
Cirrus Logic is developing Gigabit Ethernet audio chips, with the aim of sending hundreds of uncompressed audio streams over the wire at the same time.
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6.1.2007 What will run on Windows Server 2008 — and when
Now that Microsoft has released to manufacturing Windows Server 2008, the next obvious question is which applications will run on it — and when?
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4.2.2008 I Run Windows 7 Big in Japan
Microsoft is in the final stages of the development process for the next iteration of the Windows client. With RTM planned by the end of July 2009 and worldwide General Availability scheduled for October 22, the Redmond company has unveiled a set of initiatives designed to build up to Windows 7 hitting the shelves.
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6.7.2009 Vista SP1: Release Candidate test build goes to 15,000 testers
Microsoft has delivered yet another test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 to testers. On November 14, the new build — designated the SP1 Release Candiate (RC) Preview — went to a slightly expanded group of 15,000 pre-selected testers.
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14.11.2007 Microsoft Advises Users To Run Update Again
Windows users may have to update their PCs more than once to completely patch one of the vulnerabilities Microsoft fixed last week, the company's support site said Monday.
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18.10.2006 IPv4 Addresses Expected To Run Out In 2010
Once again, the alarm bells are going off that the number of TCP-IP addresses available on the Internet are running low. This time, there are specific dates for when the addresses are predicted to run out.
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27.5.200 Windows SideShow Devices Run $80?
Word is, Windows SideShow devices will start at a reasonable 80 bucks.
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17.6.2007 Nine of 10 corporate PCs can run Win 7
According to a survey carried out by Softchoice, 88% of corporate PCs in the US are capable of running Windows 7.
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19.10.2009 Zend PHP to run on Windows Server 2008
PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) tools company Zend Technologies is announcing this week that its Zend Core product will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform, providing parity between Windows Server and Linux in running PHP.
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4.3.2008Three LA Men Busted for Xbox
Mods
Three Los Angeles area men
have been charged with
copyright infringement after
authorities discovered one was
modifying Xbox 360 consoles to
allow pirated games to run on
them, then turning them around
to be sold at the video game
store of the other two...
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20.12.2005Calif. Men Guilty of Xbox
Modding
Two California men will plead
guilty to charges that they
participated in modifying
Xboxes so they could play
pirated video games. A third
is still at large. They could
face a maximum sentence of
five years in jail for the
offense...
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11.05.2006Vista vs XP performance: Some informal tests
Tim Anderson: After posting about
the inadequacy of a recent test report I
thought it would be interesting to conduct my own informal tests of Vista vs XP performance. I do not run a computer laboratory, but I guess my tests
have the benefit of being real-world.
I tested several conditions on three computers. On two of them I was able to test XP 32-bit
vs Vista 32-bit. I tried various combinations of Aero on or off, visual effects on or off, and UAC (User Account Control) on or off. I also tried
setting Vista to run only basic services, using Msconfig.
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05.12.2007One Pay Gap Shrinks, and Another Widens
There's a new myth percolating about the U.S. economy: Female workers are doing great. So are educated men. The only ones hurting are male
high-school dropouts. So, the argument goes, cut the whining about globalization and technological change hurting the American middle class, fix the
education and training system, and get on with it.
It's a nice story. Unfortunately, it isn't true. Women are closing the pay
gap with men and are outpacing men in the race to get college diplomas. But the fact is that the remarkable burst of productivity of the past decade
has not been widely shared with the women or men living at the middle of the American middle class.
"Women are doing better than
men, but still not good -- in the sense as not as good as from 1947 to 1973 and not as good given the strength of productivity growth," says Lawrence
Katz, a Harvard University economist who has become the arbiter of arguments about the American labor market. "If men had done as well as women,
things would look much brighter, but people would still be questioning why the median worker hasn't earned more."
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07.11.2007FT: Google Founders 'Men of
the Year'
Time Magazine may have
selected Bill and Melinda
Gates along with Bono as its
"Persons of the Year"
for their efforts in helping
to fight diseases in
developing countries, but the
Financial Times has chosen
Microsoft's rivals Sergey
Brin and Larry Page -- the
founders of Google -- as its
"Men of the Year."..
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23.12.2005Vista’s UAC Catches Rootkits Before Installing
Looks like Vista’s much-maligned User Access Control or UAC has one benefit for a savvy user: it can detect rootkits before they install. AV-Test.org
conducted a test of popular antivirus programs to see how well they detected rootkits and the tester had to turn off UAC on the Vista test systems
because it detected every rootkit used in the test.
Once on a PC, rootkits can bury themselves quietly, but they have to get to that
point first. As long as users interpret prompts from the UAC system attentively, or those messages haven't in some way been spoofed, rootkits
struggle to jump to the PC without drawing attention to themselves.
HardOCP..
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26.05.2008WinXP SP3 Yields Performance Gains Over Vista SP1 Again
exo.blog has at
the request of their members re-run
the
original OfficeBench test, this time with 2GB of RAM in the test system. Unfortunately the outcome is unchanged bar a 4% improvement on the
previous score. One can argue that Windows XP system requirements are quite a bit lower than its successor, and thats probably got a lot to do with
it. This, coupled with claims that Vista SP1
will
not improve on performance but will in fact be all about stability and reliability instead, doesn't offer much hope for those people on older
systems.
Make of it what you will, I personally don't have performance issues at all. I use Vista with 2GB of RAM and I have a Sandisk
2GB memory stick that is used for the "Ready Boost" feature, maybe they should re-run the test with that scenario.
Chris Pirillo
had this to say on all those negative articles
surrounding Windows Vista, enjoy!
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28.11.2007Will your PC run Windows
Vista? Download the Windows
Vista Upgrade Advisor
The Windows Vista Upgrade
Advisor is an application that
you can run on your current
Windows XP-based computer to
find out if it's ready for an
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25.05.2006WiBro to be Tested at Winter
Olympics
WiBro, short for wireless
broadband, will receive a test
run in Italy during the 2006
Turin Winter Olympics, Telecom
Italia said on Monday. The
company has signed a deal with
Samsung Electronics to test
out South Korea's answer to
WiMax technology...
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05.12.2005Two men send 217,000 text messages, $26,000 bill
Two men set out with the ambition to see how many text message they could send a month and rallied up 217,000 messages. The duo Nick Andes, 29, and
Doug Klinger, 30, were relying on their unlimited text messaging plans to pay for the fiasco. In a mixup on T-mobile's end a bill was sent to
Andes for the whopping sum of $26,000 which, as you can imagine, had him stunned at the expenses incurred. The bill alone cost T-Mobile
$27.55 to ship to Andes but thankfully T-Mobile honored their unlimited text messaging plan and credit the amount back to the user.
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23.04.2009Call between CEOs questioned in Vista case
Plaintiffs' lawyers in the 'Vista Capable' case want to know what Steve Ballmer said to Intel CEO Paul Otellini during a phone conversation the two
men had on the same day that Microsoft decided to loosen the requirements needed for a PC to get a 'Vista Capable' sticker.
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17.10.2008Microsoft Offers Vista Preview to Fight Piracy
Want to try Vista before you
buy it? Microsoft now has a
free online "test drive" of
its Windows Vista operating
system in its latest effort to
fight software piracy and
counterfeiting. Users can
access the preview of Vista on
a Windows test drive site,
said Cori Hartje, director of
the company's Genuine
Software Initiative (GSI). The
test drive sets up a virtual
environment that shows users
what running Vista is like via
a legitimate way of testing
the software rather than going
out and buying a counterfeit
copy or pirating a genuine
version, she said.
Though users won't be
downloading all of Vista by
going to the site, some
software will be installed
locally on their machines
because the site needs to
communicate with users that
way, Hartje said. The test
drive also will assess a
user's hardware and evaluate
what upgrades need to be made
to run the OS. In addition,
Microsoft has offered
customers a free preview of
Office 2007.
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22.01.2007Want to Test Vista? Better Act
Fast
Microsoft UK .NET platform
product manager Ian Moulster
wrote in a post to his
personal Web log that the
company will cut access to
Windows Vista Beta 2 on
Friday. He recommended that
users start their download and
activate Vista as soon as
possible...
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30.06.2006Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?
Whatever Firefox 2.0 is, it
isn't "sweeping," and
nowhere does that fact become
more evident than in a Windows
Vista test environment. We
started up both IE7 and FF2 in
Vista, and were left
wondering, will Firefox users
be happy using their browser
in Vista without the
degree of changes they'd
experience with IE7?..
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26.10.2006Mac user: How Microsoft has cleaned up Windows
If you asked me a year ago what I thought about Windows, I probably would've said something along the lines of "disorganized", "a mess", or
"not adequate for my needs". So I was very surprised when I gave the Windows 7 beta, and then the release candidate, a real test run. I was one of
the people who never really liked Windows Vista, and to this day I dread working on computers that have it installed. While I believed it was a step
up from XP in many ways, Windows XP had a certain consistency to it that Vista still lacks.
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24.05.2009Review: Vista, XP Users Equally At Peril To Viruses, Exploits
After a week of
extensive testing, the CRN
Test Center found that users
of Windows Vista and Windows
XP are equally at risk to
viruses and exploits and that
overall Vista brings only
marginal security advantages
over XP.
One of Microsoft's big
promises with Vista was a more
secure operating system. But
when stripped to the bare
bones and thrown into the
wild, wild Web, Vista's
security failed to impress
Test Center engineers.
Vista remains riddled with
holes, despite its multilayer
security architecture and
embedded security tools.
Besides providing no
improvement in virus
protection vs. XP, Vista
brings little or no security
gains over its predecessor
against such threats as RDS
exploits, script exploits,
image exploits, VML exploits,
malformed Web pages and known
malicious URLs, the Test
Center found.
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30.05.2007Vista SP1 serves up its own sets of problems
Every technology site is full of information regarding Vista SP1, even our own. But, not everyone is happy with the way it performs, for some,
entirely new problems have cropped up after installation.
While Vista SP1 will not fix existing compatibility problems
with older applications and hardware, it can improve the reliability of most systems but may introduce new complications.
The
Daytona Beach Journal Blog
reports in its test that one laptop was upgraded to Vista SP1 without problems but the test desktop reported that Vista was no longer valid after the
installation and wanted a new license key.
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19.12.2007New Vista Test Drive Website
Microsoft Virtual Labs has
launched a Windows Vista
Business Edition Test Drive
website.
On it
you can try some of the new
features available in Vista
Business in different
scenarios without having to
install the OS on your
computer.
The
website shows off features
like Windows Meeting Space,
Windows Sidebar, Internet
Explorer 7, Windows Mail and
Windows Sync Centre.
Each Feature has a
demonstration video and
interactive scenarios to try.
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07.01.2007Vista SP1: RC1 test build goes to 15,000 testers
Microsoft has delivered yet another test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 to testers. On November 14, the new build — designated the
SP1 Release Candiate (RC) Preview — went to a slightly expanded group of 15,000 pre-selected testers. Microsoft made a first public beta of
Vista SP1 available to 12,000 testers in September. The new build, No. 6001.17042, can be downloaded by invited testers from Microsoft’s
private Connect test site.
Microsoft has been making builds of Vista SP1 available to progressively larger groups of testers since earlier
this spring. The company has been dangling the promise of making a test build Vista SP1 available more broadly, first as a semi-public build
downloadable by Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) members, and ultimately, by any interested parties. Microsoft posted a note to MSDN two weeks ago
announcing avaiablility of a Vista SP1 beta, but later pulled the note and apologized for the false alarm.
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15.11.2007Gaming Performance: Windows Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3
Even as Microsoft tries to shove Windows Vista down the collective and unwilling throat of computer users worldwide, the company is still perfecting
the well-aged and well-loved Windows XP. The latter of the two operating systems just received its third (and evidently last) service pack.
<...> Of course, with the release of a new service pack comes a huge, pressing question: How does it compare to Windows Vista and its own
recent update, Service Pack 1, in the game performance department? Vista, of course, has been plagued by criticism that games run on it don't perform
as well as they do in Windows XP, even though most of the problems were due to early graphics drivers and have gradually been worked out.
Come with us as we install XP SP3 and take it for a test drive, and more importantly compare it to Vista SP1 with a batch of performance
tests. Though DirectX 10 is Vista-only, many a gamer has sworn not to upgrade; will XP SP3 cement their decision, or has Vista and its drivers matured
enough to change a few minds?
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