Vista Capable scandal
Many will remember a few years back before the launch of Vista, Microsoft decided to tout some PC's as Vista capable. This seemed an innocent and easy way to boost sales but what happened is a different story.
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18.11.2008 Contributor scandal rocks Wikipedia
A recent scandal involving the fabricated identity of a Wikipedia editor is causing some to rethink the way in which user-driven sites should evaluate content.
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7.3.2007 Microsoft, ISVs Set To Ship Vista-Ready Security Products
Microsoft said this week that its security unit and top security ISVs -- including Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro -- plan to release Windows Vista-ready products and services on Jan. 30, when the operating system is due to become generally available.
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18.1.2007 Is 64-bit Vista ready for take off?
There have been 64-bit versions of Windows since Windows 2000, but Microsoft thinks 64-bit Vista may finally be starting to take off....
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4.8.2008 Get ready for Vista and Win2k8 SP2!
Just a heads up to prepare for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2.
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21.5.2009 Ready for a new day? The new Microsoft site!
In just a few hours, the business launch of Windows Vista will take place at the NASDAQ headquarters.
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30.11.2006 Linux gets ready to fight Microsoft
The Linux Foundation insists it is equipped to fight Microsoft if the software giant’s lawsuit against TomTom impacts the open source Linux kernel.
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28.2.2009 Report: Half of PCs Not Vista-Ready
While nearly every current PC will be able to run Windows Vista, only half will be able to take full advantage of all of it's features, a recent study by research firm Gartner suggests. In turn, the firm is urging IT managers to take caution when ordering new PCs.
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7.4.2006 Paul Thurrott: Is Windows Vista Ready?
There's been a lot of speculation and opinion about Windows Vista lately. Many claim that Microsoft's next generation operating system isn't ready and can't be made ready in time for the software giant's self-imposed October 2006 Release to Manufacturing (RTM) deadline.
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3.8.2006 At NASA, Windows Vista Isn't Ready For Launch
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the latest federal agency to put a hold on PC upgrades to Windows Vista. NASA has decided against deploying Microsoft's five-month-old operating system anytime this year.
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26.4.2007 Windows Vista Premium Ready PCs….Really???
Thanks to thepodest who wrote this article for
his blog. These are the specs requirements for Premium Vista PCs according to Microsoft.
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16.6.2007 Microsoft Says Home Server Ready For Liftoff
Now that Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) has released a fix for the data corruption bug in Windows Home Server, channel partners are hoping Microsoft will embark on an advertising and marketing blitzkrieg to show consumers that having a server in the home can, in fact, make their lives easier.
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24.7.2008 Get Ready for Vista SP1 RTM Action Pack
Concomitantly with the general availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM, Microsoft will also start offering the new Action Pack complete with the SP1 gold bits. The Action Pack has evolved since the initial offering came out, associated with the RTM build of Vista, in order to allow company partners to perform full installations (bare metal deployments) of the service
pack.
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17.3.2008 Microsoft: Office 2007 download ready Dec. 1
Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it has completed work on Office 2007's system code and released it to manufacturing.
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7.11.2006 Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Is Close – Microsoft Says Get Ready
After spending in excess of a year cooking, Internet Explorer 8 is, finally, almost here. Microsoft has already started shipping the bits for the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8. For the time being, IE8 Beta 1 is available exclusively to a pre-selected pool of testers.
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28.2.2008 Microsoft Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 ready for download
Microsoft officials said earlier this week that they planned to deliver Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 for download some time in April. On April 19, they made good on their word.
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21.4.2007 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 Get ready for the summer of Apple
Apple is preparing for one of the most pivotal summers in its history. On June 29, the company is expected to release the iPhone, perhaps one of the most hyped gadgets in history and a clear sign of where CEO Steve Jobs is placing his bets.
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9.6.2007 New Need For Speed Game is ready
The latest EA investors meeting was a great opportunity for the company's boss, John Riccitiello to unveil a host of new and exciting projects.
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18.6.2008 Is Windows 7 ready for release now?
Earlier today, I read about the latest leaked build of Windows 7 to appear on BitTorrent. The text on the desktop suggests that build 7057 is part of the release candidate branch.
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13.3.2009 Are You Ready for Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta?
Are you ready for Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta? Windows Live messenger 8.5 is barely out the door, but the question is not without a solid foundation.
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22.11.2007 Analysis: Vista's Ready Boost is no match for RAM
There's a new way to enhance your cache in Vista - simply plug in your Flash memory stick. But how much performance gain can you really expect? TG Daily ran an average PC through a benchmark parcours and discovered that the old rules still apply: There is no substitute for an adequate amount of system memory. Period.
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13.2.2007 Windows Home Server nearly ready for prime time
A typical household with two adults and three children can easily have three or more computers. Since each of the users wants access to the Internet, their PCs are likely to already be connected to a router -- but sharing media files and other data among the computers often remains an arduous task.
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2.3.2007 Get Ready for the Slipstream - Integrated Windows XP SP3 RTM Disks
Following its natural course of evolution, after being released to manufacturing on April 21, 2008, Windows XP Service Pack 3 began shipping to Microsoft's OEM partners, and subsequently to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
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24.4.2008 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 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 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Microsoft isn't done with Vista yet
There is still more work to be done on Windows Vista, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on the day the company's highly-anticipated operating system is officially released to enterprise customers.
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2.12.2006 Microsoft boxes up Vista
Although it is still working to finish the code for Windows Vista, Microsoft has reached a decision on which versions of the operating system to offer.
Microsoft has settled on six versions, including an Ultimate edition that will combine the best of the company's corporate and consumer features. The company is aiming to have all of the versions ready for launch in the second half of this year.
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27.2.2006Vista Capable scandal
Many will remember a few years back before the launch of Vista, Microsoft decided to tout some PC's as Vista capable. This seemed an innocent and
easy way to boost sales but what happened is a different story. The Vista capable idea was a genuine one at heart. It was designed to allow
consumer to buy new PC's with confidence that the new computer would run the latest version of Vista when it launched. The idea was genius for
Microsoft, they could sell more PC's (indirectly getting sales of the OS and software) and have consumers know they would be able to upgrade with
confidence. What happened was that Intel got in the way.
Read full story.....
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18.11.2008Samsung's co-CEOs quit in scandal-driven shakeup
Samsung's family line of succession has been broken -- at least temporarily -- in a shakeup that could pave the way for some reform at the
scandal-ridden conglomerate...
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15.05.2008Vista: One Year Later
One year ago today,
Microsoft released Windows
Vista to manufacturing. In the obligatory anniversary post we ask: Was it ready? Will it ever be ready?
The answer to the
first question is an emphatic "no." Vista wasn't ready. Hardware manufacturers and software developers weren't ready for it. The channel and
enterprises weren't ready, and consumers couldn't get it because Vista missed holiday 2006.
Microsoft promised WOW, but the reaction was, "What?" What is
different from Windows XP? What is wrong with the hardware requirements? What is the difference between "
Capable" and "
Ready?" What is this
Software Assurance requirement for Vista
Enterprise? What happened to the familiarity of Windows XP? What is
wrong with my Vista applications and hardware?
More recently the "W" question is "When?"--as in
when will
Microsoft release Vista Service Pack 1?
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08.11.2007HP's Fortunes Rise, Undaunted by Scandal
On Thursday, HP posted one of
its best performing quarters
in years, and a star quarter
even for a company that
hadn't been heading south
just two years ago. The
company posted $24.55 billion
in revenue, earning $2.2
billion - a full 9% of that
amount - in profit. Is this
the same company that's
embroiled in a corporate
boardroom scandal?..
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17.11.2006Get ready for Windows Vista
Getting ready for Windows
Vista, available in early
2007, means choosing the
edition that's right for you
and ensuring that you have the
right PC to enjoy the
experiences you want...
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25.05.2006Microsoft Delays Vista Until
2007
JUST IN Microsoft
revealed Tuesday afternoon
that it was delaying the
launch of Vista into 2007. In
a press conference, Vista
chief Jim Allchin revealed
that the product would not be
ready for a Holiday 2006
launch. More details to
follow...
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22.03.2006Final Windows Vista System
Specs Revealed
Microsoft just relealed the
final Windows Vista Hardware
Requirements. There you go,
you'll need the following
machine to run Vista:
Minimal Specs
(Called Vista-Ready PCs):
-800Mhz Processor
-512 MB of RAM
-DirectX 9-Capable Graphics
Processor
Recommended Specs (Called
Premium-Ready PCs):
-1
Ghz Processor
-128 MB
Graphics Memory, numerous
other graphics-related
requirements
-1 GB
System Memory
Microsoft also plans to make
an advertisement campaign
around those required
machines, in order to make
people be sure their machine
will meet those requirements,
and this campaign should be
revealed on May 18th, in this
case tomorrow.
This announcement was made
to prepare the also planned
WinHEC release of Windows
Vista Beta 2 (Supposedly Build
5384, last known compiled
build as of today), which will
likely be made public in the
days following its release at
WinHEC.
These
requirements are about what
was expected, maybe a little
bit below. As previously
announced, most PCs sold
within last year might be
Vista-Ready, though very few
fully meet the Premium-Ready
requirements.
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18.05.2006Getting ready for Vista SP1
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ive now carried out well over a hundred Vista to Vista Service Pack 1 upgrades. While many of the upgrades I carried out were
experimental and done on test rigs which I considered to be sacrificial, quite a few have been key production machines which I cannot afford to have
out of service for any extended period of time.
Getting ready for Vista SP1With the public release of Vista SP1 drawing nearer,
its a good time to share with you the Vista to Vista SP1 action plan that I developed that has meant that I have (so far ¦ ) enjoyed a 100% success
rate. By following this action plan Ive kept downtime to a minimum and suffered no data loss at all.
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04.03.2008Are You Ready for Windows Vista?
Columnist Stuart Mudie
describes how to make the move
to Windows Vista using Windows
Vista Upgrade Advisor and
Windows Easy Transfer...
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29.09.2006Microsoft Could Delay Vista in
Europe
Microsoft is pushing hard to
get its next-generation
Windows operating system ready
for a public launch in
January, but now it has a new
hurdle: the European
Commission has raised concerns
about Vista. The Redmond
company said a delay may occur
if the EU demands changes to
the product...
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07.09.2006SlingCatcher will be ready when it's ready
In response to unconfirmed reports that Sling Media's Slingcatcher component would be delayed until late this year, the company told BetaNews
SlingCatcher will ship when it's good and ready...
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11.04.2008Microsoft Details Vista
Requirements
With Windows Vista Beta 2 set
to make its public debut next
week, Microsoft on Thursday
finally detailed the hardware
specifications required to run
the new operating system. The
Redmond company also launched
a "Get Ready" program
to help consumers prepare for
the upgrade...
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18.05.2006Corel Extends 'Vista Ready' to Software
On the same day that Microsoft
formally unveiled its two-tier
logo program for hardware
manufacturers and partners,
differentiating (at least to
some extent) "Works with
Vista" from "Certified
for Vista," Corel
announced it would be applying
a similar two-tier approach to
its main software brands...
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13.10.2006Windows Vista Earns IPv6 Ready Logo Phase 2
On October 25, 2007, Windows Vista earned the IPv6 Forums IPv6 Ready Phase 2 Logo from the IPv6 Consortium and University of New Hampshire -
InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL).
Vista earned its Phase 1 Logo, which focuses on interoperability of core protocols, and
compliance to MUST statements in core RFCs back in March of 2007. Phase 2 Logo is a more rigorous examination which is focused on daily professional
use of IPv6, and examines compliance to both MUST and SHOULD statements in a wider set of scenarios.
You can verify the Phase 1
logo status
here, and the Phase 2 logo status
here.
This is a great win for the team and
once again shows that IPv6 is ready. Are you?
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14.11.2007Vista graphics drivers to be
more stable than XP drivers,
ATI says
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Graphics drivers developed for
Vista, Microsoft's next
generation operating system,
will be far more stable than
their Windows XP-based
counterparts, and not crash
the operating system anymore,
an executive of graphics chip
developer ATI told Tom's
Hardware
Guide.
Ben
Bar-Haim, vice president of
ATI's software division, told
us consumers will be able to
identify graphics cards
supporting Vista by way of a
"Vista ready" logo, which
will likely appear in multiple
flavors indicating different
feature levels. The release of
Microsoft's new operating
system may still be at least
one year out, but hardware
manufacturers, including ATI,
are already gearing up for yet
another certification and logo
round: "Vista ready" will be
the catch-phrase promoting
hardware products as a safe
investment.
ATI's
new Xpress 200 integrated
graphics processor (IGP) has
already claimed dibs on the
phrase. Its specifications
appear to meet Microsoft's
current minimum graphics
requirements, which include
support for DirectX 9 and at
least 64 Mb of graphics
memory. "Vista ready",
however, does not necessarily
mean that users will be able
to run all 3D effects.
According to Ben Bar-Haim,
vice president in ATI's
software division, there is a
good chance that there will be
at two "Vista ready" logos -
one covering "basic"
requirements and the other one
"full" feature capability.
Bar-Haim said that "two logos
is the concept right now,"
but the final marketing would
still depend on "further OEM
input." ..
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23.09.2005Nvidia: We're ready for Microsoft this time (no, really)
When chalking up what went wrong with Vista, incompatible hardware/software always makes it into the Top 10 lists. So its understandable that the
Windows team is doing everything in its power to make sure third parties are ready with drivers and products that will work with Window 7 right out of
the gate.
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07.05.2009Microsoft 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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12.02.2009Windows Vista X Has Opened
Razer Comp Shop
We have now opened our shop
selling Laptops and PCs that
are Windows Vista Ready and
are also taking
preorder's on Windows
Vista..
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26.08.2006AOL Preps for Windows Vista Launch
As the January 30 launch date
of Windows Vista nears, more
and more companies are
announcing support for the
next generation operating
system. The latest is AOL,
which said Tuesday its suite
of applications is "Vista
Ready."..
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24.01.2007Gates: I'd Be Glad to Delay
Vista
Speaking at a forum in South
Africa regarding a plan for
Microsoft to make major
technology investments in the
country, Bill Gates said there
was an "80 percent
chance" Windows Vista
would by ready for its planned
January launch. He also had no
qualms about delaying the OS
further if necessary...
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