Vista SP1's File Sharing Subsystem to "Benefit" from Thousands of Inbound Concurrent Connections
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are "aligned" operating systems despite the client and server side separation. In this context, the first service pack for Windows Vista, directly dependent of Windows Server 2008, will feature evolution in various aspects, as generated by the development of Microsoft's last 32-bit server operating system.
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13.12.2007 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 - let’s 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 Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s 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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26.9.2008 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 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP2
We are all well aware of the limping start of Vista on the OS market. Despite the fact that its launch had been highly anticipated for a good while, contrary to all Microsoft expectations, Vista was received with great reluctance and unwillingness on the part of XP fans.
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13.12.2008 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 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista – Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 PC buyers: 'Vista Capable' machines weren't Vista capable
How misleading was Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" campaign? Misleading enough for a judge to approve a federal trial.
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9.8.2007 Yes, You Can Turn 32-bit Vista into 64-bit Vista
Yes, you can turn the 32-bit SKUs of Windows Vista into the 64-bit editions of the operating system. But it will cost you...
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29.1.2008Vista SP1 benefit will be stability and reliability, not performance
The problem is one of the major issues with Vista is performance...
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will Vista SP1 and how this
wont bring any relief to those who find Vista a bit slow or sluggish? Not really, but then again service packs arent about performance increases;
theyre about reliability and stability.
Ive seen a lot of service packs in my time. Windows 95 and ME both got one service pack,
NT 4.0 saw six, Windows 2000 had four and XP has so far seen two. But what I dont remember regarding any of these service packs is installing it onto
a system and then seeing any significant boost in performance. Service packs dont really work that way. Sure, youll feel specific improvements as a
result of some of the tweaks and fixes contained in the service pack, and you might feel the benefit of having your operating system refreshed by
loading the service pack onto it, but a service pack should not be looked upon as a performance upgrade. If your system cant run an OS, what it needs
is upgrading or replacing, not the application of a service pack.
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26.11.2007The Problem with Bundling
Joe Wilcox: On Friday I spoke with two product executives from a major OEM about some forthcoming new PCs and notebooks. During the conversation, I
asked about their Windows Media Center strategy. The OEM no longer has one, and Vista integration is the reason.
The response is
surprising, because Media Center integration into Vista was supposed to benefit Microsoft, its customers and partners. But that's not how this OEM
sees it. Reasoning: The discreet SKU's disappearance makes Media Center differentiation more difficult among OEMs, so there is no real competitive
advantage. The product executives expressed concern that Media Center promotion for the OEM's products might benefit competitors.
The conversation was a broad indictment of Microsoft's whole Vista SKU strategy. Rather than differentiate products around Vista SKUs, the OEM
has instead returned to emphasizing performance metrics and made product design a greater priority. That's opposite the intention of Microsoft's
Vista SKU strategy, which was supposed to encourage greater differentiation around operating system capabilities.
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10.12.2007Vista’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.
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26.05.2008IT 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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19.11.2007Vista 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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05.12.2007Vista's Promising Video Upgrades
When it comes to graphics,
Microsoft's new operating
system may earn its name.
Vista promises plenty of great
views with upgrades for richly
detailed games, as well as
better-looking and more-useful
desktop apps.
Much
of the expected benefit will
come from DirectX 10, the
first complete rewrite of
Microsoft's ubiquitous
package of graphics tools, and
its move toward what's called
a Unified Shader Model. Though
games will receive the biggest
benefit, Microsoft says that
Vista's improved use of
graphics resources will allow
all applications to add more
animation and visual effects
without slowing your PC to a
crawl. Of course, there's a
catch: DX10 must be paired
with similarly boosted
graphics hardware, meaning
you'll have to shell out for
a new video card. But you can
still benefit from other
advances with today's cards.
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30.01.2007Windws Vista SP1 needs new hardware
Vista Service Pack 1 comes with an important update for gamers - DirectX 10.1. The catch? You need brand new hardware to support it, and NVIDIA
enthusiasts are left totally out in the cold.
One of the benefit Windows Vista brought to the gaming table was the next version of DirectX
– version 10. With the potential improvements to 3D gaming potentially outweighing the anticipated performance drop in running games on a more
resource-hungry operating system, most hardcore gamers waited until ATI and NVIDIA released their DirectX 10-capable GPUs before taking the plunge and
upgrading to Vista.
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14.01.2008Windows Vista vs Windows XP SP2 Vulnerability Report 2007
Jeff Jones: In the wake of my
Windows Vista One Year
Vulnerability Report, I have received many questions regarding the current vulnerability record of Windows Vista as compares with Windows XP
SP2.
This short paper is a compilation of vulnerability data for Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP SP2 for
calendar year 2007 and a brief analysis to see if any benefit is apparent for users of one OS over the other.
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15.05.2008Interview: What Vista SP1 means to you
The first service pack for Windows Vista is slated for release to manufacturing in the first quarter of 2008. The announcement was made via Microsofts
Windows Window Vista Blog by Nick White, a product manager at Microsoft. We got a chance to sit down with White to talk about
SP1.
On the blog post, White made it a point to mention this service pack is quite different from other service packs offered for
previous versions of Windows. Microsoft is taking full advantage of Windows Update to send improvements to Windows Vista customers rather than relying
on one big service pack. That being said, the message for Windows Vista SP1 is dont expect new features, but some components do gain new
functionality.
So, the biggest question is what will be in Windows Vista SP1? The first is quality improvements (security,
reliability, and performance) including all previously released updates. Next, SP1 will include additional support for hardware and standards
including an Extensible Firmware Interface (ESO) and an Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT). Probably, the biggest group to benefit from Windows
Vista SP1 is administrators.
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30.08.2007UK gov't agency: Don't upgrade to Vista
British schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite, the British Educational Communications
and Technology Agency (BECTA) said in a report on the software. It
also supported use of the
international standard ODF (Open Document Format) for storing files.
Schools might consider using Vista if rolling out
all-new infrastructure, but should not introduce it piecemeal alongside other versions of Windows, or upgrade older machines, said the agency, which
is responsible for advising British schools and colleges on their IT use.
"We have not had sight of any evidence to support the
argument that the costs of upgrading to Vista in educational establishments would be offset by appropriate benefit," it said.
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11.01.2008Trend Micro OS Protection beta released
Trend Micro today released
http://www.trendsecure.com/por
tal/en-US/threat_analytics/os_
protect.php?WT.cg_n=home_2nd_r
ight>Trend Micro OS Protection
beta for its Trend Micro
Internet Security 2007
customers. OS protection
includes Trend Micro Firewall
Booster and Trend Micro
Pre-Startup Scan.
Rather than rail against
various kernel changes within
Windows Vista as Symantec and
other did last fall, Trend
Micro says it wanted to work
in cooperation with Microsoft.
Trend Micro OS Protection
works on both the 32-bit and
64-bit editions of Windows
Vista.
The chief
benefit from Trend Micro
Firewall Booster is Windows
Vista users won't have dual
firewall technologies running.
Firewall Booster leverages
existing Windows Vista
Firewall capabilities, adding
protection provided by Trend
Micro. Trend Micro Pre-Startup
Scan runs before Windows Vista
boots, ferreting out sleeping
malware such as rootkits
before engaging the operating
system. Pre-Startup includes a
system restore checkpoint, so
that a user can always roll
back any changes made. The
process is not automatic,
allowing the user to decide
when and how the scans will be
done. ..
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23.06.2007Microsoft comments on Vista SP1 kernel reports
Microsoft has revealed more information on changes to the Vista kernel as part of the release of Service Pack 1, but has denied that the enhancements
amount to an "upgrade" or "re-engineering".
In a statement released to ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday, a Microsoft spokesperson
confirmed that enhancements have been made to the Vista kernel, taking the form of an extended set of APIs designed to benefit 64-bit application
development.
"The kernel has not been re-engineered. However, some APIs have been introduced through SP1
which
help ISVs develop software to run on 64-bit PCs (they patch the kernel)," Microsoft stated.
winbeta.org - 06.02.2008
Microsoft to Abandon Major SPs for Vista
Finished are those dreams of
Fiji being a major Service
Pack 1 for Vista: a Microsoft
spokesperson has just
announced that Windows Vista
won't be having any major
upgrades through its service
packs as XP's previous
service packs were.
Reasons that
Microsoft gave mainly revolve
around Vista being a high
quality operating system right
out of the box, as well as
small updates improving the
system gradually thanks to a
new integration of Windows
Update into the core system.
The company also believes that
a lightweight service pack
will benefit both enterprises
and individual users, since
fewer major changes to the
system's core will also
reduce compatibility issues as
well as prevent performance
problems that users have
historically been complaining
about after Windows service
pack releases.
jcxp.net - 03.04.2007
Microsoft, Novell sign joint deal with Renault
While many deals on operating systems for corporations result in a loss for one side or the other, this case could be seen as a net benefit for both...
betanews.com - 02.02.2008
Remaining Ultimate Extra Language Packs Released
We are pleased to announce the release of the remaining 19 languages packs for Windows Vista Ultimate. This Ultimate Extras release brings the total
number of language packs for use with Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI) to 35. Windows Vista Ultimate enables users install
multiple languages on their system and quickly switch between them by associating a system language with their login name.
MUI is
particularly useful in multilingual homes where multiple people use a single computer and choose different languages for their primary use. People who
wish to learn a new language will also find MUI to be a particularly useful feature. We are aware of a very large number of customers who have
purchased Ultimate for this feature specifically and are gratified that these customers can now realize the full benefit of Windows Vista Ultimate.
The languages we are adding today are as follows...
winbeta.org - 24.10.2007
Could Google-AOL Deal Benefit
Microsoft?
Software giant lost the
bidding for a piece of AOL,
but analysts say company could
still win in the market...
pcworld.com - 21.12.2005
Skype Founder Zennstrom Out As CEO
With eBay still not seeing much benefit from its 2005 acquisition of VoIP provider Skype, the company said Monday that it would shake up management
and take some charges related to its operations...
betanews.com - 01.10.2007
Vista SP1 will be stability and reliability, not performance
The problem is one of the major issues with Vista is performance...
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will Vista SP1 and how this won’t bring
any relief to those who find Vista a bit slow or sluggish? Not really, but then again service packs aren’t about performance increases;
they’re about reliability and stability.
I’ve seen a lot of service packs in my time. Windows 95 and ME both got one service
pack, NT 4.0 saw six, Windows 2000 had four and XP has so far seen two. But what I don’t remember regarding any of these service packs is
installing it onto a system and then seeing any significant boost in performance. Service packs don’t really work that way. Sure, you’ll
feel specific improvements as a result of some of the tweaks and fixes contained in the service pack, and you might feel the benefit of having your
operating system refreshed by loading the service pack onto it, but a service pack should not be looked upon as a performance upgrade. If your system
can’t run an OS, what it needs is upgrading or replacing, not the application of a service pack.
neowin.net - 27.11.2007
Sprint to reduce staff by 8,000, TI to cut 3,400
Sprint today announced that they will reduce their staffing by nearly 8,000 people. Along with other benefit reductions, that is expected to save the
company approximately $1.2 billion per year. Layoffs will take place over the next two months and will affect all levels of the company, all
across the country. A large chunk of the jobs, estimates are around 2,000, are expected to be lost near the company headquarters outside Kansas City.
The company will also suspend their 401(k) matches, pay increases and tuition reimbursement program through 2009. The suspended tuition program is
expected to heavily impact universities in the Kansas City area, who benefit from the large number of employees who take advantage of that program.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 27.01.2009
The Windows Roadmap
Today, more than 1 billion personal computers around the world run Windows. Over the years, Windows has been the catalyst for innovations that have
transformed the way people communicate, access information, create and share content, and much more, at work and at home. Windows is the platform that
most people use to get the greatest value and benefit from their personal computers. I wanted to take this opportunity to share some thoughts about
Windows and to answer some questions you may have about Windows XP and Windows Vista.
There are three things I want to give you an update
on:
Our plans for Windows XP
Our progress with Windows Vista
Our view on Windows 7
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