Nov 30
In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:Windows Vista Secrets, SP1 Edition is packed with over 200 more pages of features of the new operating system that are not disclosed in Microsoft’s books or help files and are not contained in other competing works. By tapping the extensive network of Windows beta testers and conducting their own experiments on the new OS, and thousands of readers, the authors will develop page after page of information that is essential to power users of Windows but not available elsewhere.
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Nov 29
Microsoft Corp. will deliver Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) to manufacturing in April 2009, two months after it issues a final test version to users, according to a Web site that accurately predicted several Windows ship dates in 2008. TechARP.com, a Malaysian Web site that nailed the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) dates for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 earlier this year, said that Microsoft will post a release candidate — the final test version — of Vista SP2 in February 2009, finish the service pack next April and offer it to users via download from the Web at some point afterward.
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Nov 28
In August, Windows Search 4.0 (WS4) was released to the masses. According to recent tests, the performance improvements were significant: 26 percent faster for Windows XP and 84 percent for Windows Vista. We already know that WS4 will be bundled in Vista SP2, so it’s natural to expect that the Windows 7 Find and Organize team is using WS4 as the base for further improvements.
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Nov 27
Security researchers at Phion AG, an Austrian firewall company, report that Windows Vista has a TCP/IP vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to take control of an affected system. The vulnerability has been tested on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows Vista Enterprise (32-bit and 64-bit) and Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit). The researches consider it likely that other versions of Vista are affected. Windows XP, however, is not affected.
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