Mar 31
EVEN Bill Gates has admitted that Vista needs work. In a widely publicised interview in January last year, in response to a question about what recent product he wished Microsoft had spent more time preparing before going on sale, Mr Gates pointed to Vista, the current Windows version. Mr Gates has since stepped away from the operational side of Microsoft to concentrate on his philanthropic foundation, although he remains chairman. Windows Vista is widely reviled, and sometimes seems so bad that it resembles malware (malicious software).
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Mar 30
A prematurely published note to Microsoft’s professional customers indicated that the software maker plans to release a nearly complete version of its highly anticipated Windows 7 operating system in May. If that schedule holds up, consumers and businesses could get their hands on a final version of the OS as soon as September.
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Mar 29
Two Middle Americans have sued Acer over its low-cost Aspire notebooks, claiming that the Taiwanese PC giant pre-installed Windows Vista on machines ill-equipped to run Microsoft’s latest OS. With a lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco, California, two residents of Fostoria, Ohio seek damages and relief from the world’s third-largest computer maker after purchasing a sub-$600 Aspire notebook that included Windows Vista Premium and a gigabyte of shared system and graphics memory.
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Mar 28
The final version of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) does contain the vulnerability used to hack a preview of the browser at last week’s Pwn2Own, the contest’s sponsor confirmed today. But the exploit used by the computer science student to break the release candidate of IE8 — and walk away with a Sony laptop and $5,000 in cash — won’t work on the final version of IE8 as long as it’s running in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or Windows 7, said Terri Forslof, manager of security response at 3Com Corp.’s TippingPoint unit.
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