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In the land of Hello Kitty and pink notebook PCs, Microsoft has produced a pink special offer for Vista Home Premium: it’s bundled with a year of OneCare and a tips and tricks book.Even more interesting is the price. I can’t read Japanese, but if it really is 2500 Yen, that’s only about $25, or £12.50. The UK recommended price for Home Premium is £219.99, which is, frankly, silly.
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It held out as long as possible, but a Windows Vista laptop fell to a determined bunch of hackers Friday evening at the Pwn to Own contest at CanSecWest.Since it was the third day of the contest, which saw a MacBook Air get hacked on Thursday, the TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative relaxed the rules even further. On the first day of the contest, only the operating system could be targeted, but on the second day that was expanded to include standard applications. An undisclosed Safari flaw led to the MacBook Air’s downfall.
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Microsoft’s year-old Windows Vista operating system could get a boost now that Microsoft has issued the first set of bug fixes for the product. Many users, particularly businesses and other enterprises, won’t consider installing a new Microsoft
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NVIDIA Display Drivers Causing Majority of Crashes in Windows Vista
Vista News 260 Views No Comments »Surprised? You shouldn’t be, considering NVIDIA drivers caused most of the crashes in Windows XP as well. It’s just Vista’s more graceful when it comes to handling said failures. When Vista and DirectX 10 were announced all those years ago, it wasn’t the graphics that had my giblets tingling. No, it was integration. Vista promised to treat your graphics card as part of the normal make-up of a PC, rather than an optional extra, by delivering GPU multi-tasking/scheduling and virtualised video memory. With these improvements, we got Aero Glass, Direct3D 10 and, of course, the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM).
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