Nov 30
Looking back on 2007, I’m struck by how much Windows Vista was the story of the year — and not always in a positive way.I’m working on my annual round up of “Top 10″ Microsoft happenings from the past year. Almost everything on my short list involves Vista in some way. Sure, Redmond also made its biggest acquisition ever with aQuantive, cleaned house on the search side of its business, launched a “big-ass table” (aka: Microsoft Surface) and lost its European Union (EU) antitrust decision appeal.
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Nov 29
Lawyers for plaintiffs in a case brought against Microsoft over Vista’s marketing have claimed that even the software giant’s marketing director was confused by the prelaunch campaign in the U.S.
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Nov 29
With Vista’s first service pack due for wide release early next year, Microsoft is intent on addressing the many things which need to be fixed in its still-young operating system. The question is, are they going to fix the right things? I think not, since the problems this time ’round aren’t bugs so much as performance. Read on for my list of five must-have Vista corrections.
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Nov 28
Businesses feel a move to Microsoft’s Windows Vista OS isn’t worth the effort yet, due to compatibility issues and it offering too few benefits over XP. Almost a year after the businesses version of Vista was released, it seems take-up remains sluggish and analysts predict this won’t change significantly for a while.
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Nov 27
Security researchers warn that attack code targeting an unpatched bug in Apple Inc.’s QuickTime has gone public, and added that in-the-wild attacks against systems running Windows XP and Vista are probably not far behind. There was no word as of Sunday whether the Mac OS X versions of the media player are also vulnerable.
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