Nov 27
A Microsoft Corp. product manager couldn’t correctly explain the “Vista Capable” marketing slogan, according to recent filings in a lawsuit that claims the company misled consumers with a prerelease Vista campaign last year. The case, first filed in March by Washington state resident Diane Kelley, charged Microsoft with deceptive practices in letting PC makers slap a “Vista Capable” sticker on PCs, when “a large number” of the machines would be able to run only Vista Home Basic, the simplest version of the operating system.
Read the rest of this entry »
Share This
Nov 26
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), the update scheduled to release next year, runs Microsoft Corp.’s Office suite 10% faster than XP SP2, a performance testing software developer reported Friday.Devil Mountain Software, which earlier in the week claimed Windows Vista SP1 was no faster than the original, repeated some of the same tests on the release candidate of Windows XP SP3, the service pack recently issued to about 15,000 testers.
Read the rest of this entry »
Share This
Nov 26
As the anniversary of Windows Vista’s release to volume customers approaches, enterprise adoption of Microsoft’s latest operating system is still sparse. But many more firms now have plans to migrate in the near future, according to Forrester Research, which expects nearly a third of businesses will have begun deployment by the end of 2008, and that Vista will be on a quarter of enterprise PCs by the middle of the year.
Read the rest of this entry »
Share This
Nov 25
Microsoft’s emphasis on improvements to security features in Windows Vista may have undermined business adoption of the OS, as many business and enterprise customers are still holding off on upgrading to the OS nearly a year after its release to them.
Read the rest of this entry »
Share This
Nov 24
Despite of widespread critics among certain groups of end-users, Microsoft Windows Vista operating system (OS) captured additional part of the market in October, whereas other operating systems from Microsoft reduced their installed base. At the same time, platforms from Apple reduced the shares of the market they command.
Read the rest of this entry »
Share This
Recent Comments