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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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10.6.2009Top 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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28.04.2009The 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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03.04.2008Sophos 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
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29.09.200650 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.
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19.02.2008Businesses 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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08.11.2007The Ultimate Question Answered
On Sunday, I observed that
Windows Vista Ultimate isn't
much available on new PCs.
There may be good reasons.
Not much has changed
today, the first day people
can actually buy Vista
Ultimate preloaded on new PCs.
By and large, major
manufacturers and retailers
are sticking to Windows Basic
and Windows Vista Home
Premium. Now why is that?
I asked that question
to analysts and Microsoft
executives yesterday during
Microsoft's Vista partner
launch, and I got some
surprising answers.
Cost weighed in as a major
consideration, along with
driver compatibility and
potential customers (Microsoft
expects bigger initial retail
box sales of Ultimate than PC
preloads). All three factors
are legitimate reasons, and
all three are likely right.
Together they raise questions
about whether Microsoft's
version strategy simply
doesn't make sense.
Ultimate's ultimate
pricing--$399 for
full-version retail and
$259 for an upgrade--is an
obvious purchase barrier.
Microsoft doesn't release OEM
pricing, but Dell, Gateway and
HP add-on pricing--$170,
$160 and $120,
respectively--gives some
perspective. The add-on
pricing is on top of what the
customer already pays for
Windows Vista Home Premium.
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31.01.2007What 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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07.12.2007Gritty 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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Intriguing 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.
winbeta.org - 11.07.2007
Collection of published Vista SP1 API changes from MSDN
Microsoft might choose not to
tell its enthusiasts anything
about Windows Vista Service
Pack 1, but they cant afford
to keep it a secret to the
development community.
For the same reasons some
argue SP1 is the Holy Grail
for Windows Vista, a newer
kernel means changes to a very
significant component of an
operating system. However
since this is a significantly
minor update to the kernel
compared to what was endured
just months ago, APIs have
already been added, changed
and even obsoleted.
Since Microsoft wouldnt
publish any documentation of
their own for the time being,
here is a list Ive compiled
from the MSDN Library of all
the changes taking effect in
Vista SP1 published to-date.
Whilst most of these
documentation wont make sense
for non-developers (myself
included), think of it like
reading a foreign-language
newspaper - find all the
proper nouns then make up the
story.
winbeta.org - 22.07.2007
Vista 'inevitable' for enterprises, says Forrester analyst
Although a "significant" number of corporations are hesitating to move to Windows Vista, businesses should bite the bullet because Microsoft Corp.
is retiring Windows XP, and there's no guarantee it will deliver a next-generation operating system on time or with compelling features, a research
analyst said.
"Vista is an inevitability, for a number of reasons," said Ben Gray, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. He
then ticked off several, including Windows XP's announced retirement and unsubstantiated talk about Vista's successor, Windows 7.
"They are sort of in a 'caught between a rock and a hard place' situation," said Gray. Administrators may not want to move to Vista, but
neither of the alternatives -- the older XP and the not-even-officially-scheduled Windows 7 -- is attractive, he said.
winbeta.org - 29.04.2008
Takahashi: Let's hope Vista's successor does better
The love-hate relationship between Microsoft and its users has always centered on the performance of its operating system. And during the past year,
Windows Vista has given us reasons to be both positive and negative about the future of the PC.
Before it came out in January,
Vista got good reviews, though some critics complained that Microsoft should have taken bigger steps to change the look and functions of Windows, much
as it did with Office 2007.
But as the year wore on, there were reports about bugs and security issues. And then came the
insultingly titled book "Windows Vista Annoyances" by tech writer David Karp. Computer industry pundits, including John Dvorak, Rob Enderle, Richard
Doherty and Roger Kay have criticized Microsoft both for not going far enough with Vista and for making it so bloated it was visibly slow at
performing various tasks.
winbeta.org - 20.12.2007
XP vs. Vista - A Tale of Framerates: Redux
We recently published an
article comparing framerate
performance in XP versus Vista
on NVIDIA hardware. Our
readership wanted to see what
ATI could do with the same
task so that we could see if
Vista was really to blame for
what we saw.
Up to
now, its been claimed that
poor driver support has
crippled Microsofts new
operating system. We wanted to
try to associate hard numbers
to this issue and take an
industry accounting of what
users can expect from Vista.
We even went so far as to test
two different video cards and
driver sets. Both were from
NVIDIA, and included a 7600 GS
and an 8800 GTS 320MB.
However, our scope was
more limited than we realized.
After the article, a
consistent criticism was that
we did not include ATI
hardware in our evaluation, so
any claims that we made were
unqualified. Our readers were
absolutely right. One of the
reasons that our content is
better than most publications
is that because we have the
best readership in the
industry and we listen to
them.
winbeta.org - 06.06.2007
Windows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the question
With Windows 7 poised to begin private testing any time now and to ship by late 2009, a
number of business users are wondering whether they should simply skip Windows Vista all together and wait for 7 instead.
Microsoft, not surprisingly, is advising customers against taking a pass on Vista. As part of a new white paper aimed at influencing business
users who are evaluating when and whether to move to Windows Vista, Microsoft is advocating enterprise users should migrate to Vista sooner rather
than later.
The white paper “The Business Value of Windows Vista:
Five Reasons to Deploy Now” doesn’t include a lot of new data; instead, it revisits the business features Microsoft built into Vista
and highlights some of the new deployment tools and case-study examples of companies who have migrated to Vista. But it does offer Microsoft’s
official guidance on Windows 7 deployments. From the paper...
winbeta.org - 04.06.2008
Vista's Bad Rap and the Adoption Gap
News Analysis. Not to be outdone by last week's dismal Gartner analysis of Windows Vista,
today Forrester Research heaped on its own grim perspective.
Forrester whacked Vista in not one but two reports: "Building The Business Case For Windows Vista: Five Reasons To Start
Your Company's Migration Soon" and "Lessons Learned From
Early Adopters Of Windows Vista: How Businesses Can Overcome The Most Common Migration Challenges."
winbeta.org - 17.04.2008
Mary Jo Foley Will Windows Service Pack History Repeat Itself?
Mary Jo Foley: One of my editors at Redmond magazine -- the ever-doubting Ed Scannell -- recently posed an interesting hypothetical question about the
future of Windows. Might Microsoft yank some features planned for Windows 7 and put them into a Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 2 that would include
not just fixes, but also new features?
In other words: Could Windows history repeat itself, with Vista SP2 taking the form of a
whole new operating system release -- in everything other than name -- a la Windows XP SP2?
Microsoft officials said last year
not to expect Vista SP1 to be anything like XP SP2. Vista SP1 was designed to be a collection of fixes and patches, aimed at improving security,
reliability and performance. But the 'Softies haven't said anything about their thinking in regard to Vista SP2. Might Microsoft use the next Vista
SP to deliver some of the features that otherwise might have to wait for Windows 7, currently slated for 2010?
As tasty as that
option might sound to some, I'd give it a very low likelihood for a few reasons.
winbeta.org - 03.06.2008
Windows Vista Interface Causes Problems For Consumers, Support Firm Says
Navigating Windows Vista's
Aero user interface is a big
problem for many consumers
learning Microsoft's
6-month-old operating system,
a technical support company
said Thursday.
Support.com<
/a>, which offers technical
support to consumers, said the
top three reasons people
called for Vista help were to
solve navigation problems,
device incompatibility, and
home networking issues.
While Vista is "a leap
forward in terms of usability
and functionality," it
requires consumers used to
working with older versions of
Windows to learn something
new, Anthony Rodio, chief
marketing officer for
Support.com, said in a
statement. "We know very well
that any major switch in
operating systems can
initially cause confusion and
problems for end-users," he
said. "Consumers often suffer
from frustrating issues that
prevent them from using their
computer for its intended use,
whether it's simply accessing
their e-mail system or
printing a document."..
winbeta.org - 13.07.2007
Closer Look: Beta Windows Vista Service Pack 1
With dissatisfaction over the Vista operating system persistent, can Microsoft right the OS's wrongs with its upcoming Vista service pack?
Microsoft made the latest beta of Vista SP1 available to the public earlier this month, and after informally testing it for a couple of days, I find
my PC is working more reliably--and some tasks especially file copying, take less time. But I was hoping for more out of SP1, such as bigger system
performance gains and fixes for Vista annoyances including the oft-criticized User Account Control feature.
And if you are waiting for
major improvements to switch to Vista, you'd better hope that Microsoft's SP1 development team goes into overdrive before the service
pack's official release and gives you more compelling reasons to make the jump to the OS. Vista undergoes no major overhaul with the SP1 release I
looked at.
neowin.net - 24.01.2008
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. They have spread themselves from their
core identities and they are opening themselves up for a loss of market share. For this article market share is defined as a broad term where
Microsoft will lose users from its user base to its competitors. Reason #6: The Juggernaut Microsoft has always been viewed as the corporate
beast that it is. It's always easier to degrade those that are on top than those who are up and coming. Microsoft is in a position of corporate
and personal dominance.
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