Aug 16
Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista recorded about half as many vulnerabilities in its first full year of availability as Windows XP did in its opening 12 months, company security executives said yesterday. In an update to earlier 90-day and six-month reports, Jeff Jones, a security strategy director in the company’s trustworthy computing group, cited vulnerability and patch statistics to show that Vista logged 66 bugs between November 2006 and November 2007, 30 of which had not yet been patched. In the first 52 weeks Windows XP was in use, on the other hand, it was pegged with 129 vulnerabilities, 54 of which were not fixed by the end of that 12-month period.
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Aug 15
Microsoft Corp. today said it will issue eight security updates next week, five tagged as “critical” to patch Windows, Office and Internet Explorer. One of the critical Windows updates scheduled for next Tuesday affects every version of the operating system Microsoft supports, including the just-released Service Pack 1 for Vista and the newest server operating system, Windows Server 2008.
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Aug 13
Microsoft takes aim at 26 vulnerabilities this month, spread across 11 patches, 6 of which carry a “critical” rating. The sheer number of vulnerabilities, especially those on the critical side of the scale, isn’t lost on security watchers. Indeed, Microsoft hasn’t tackled as many vulnerabilities in a single Patch Tuesday in at least two years.
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Aug 12
When you work with computers, some things are inevitable. You can push them aside, but sooner or later they confront you. I’m talking, of course, about Windows Vista. You still can buy Windows XP, but the majority of off-the-shelf PCs now come with some variation of Vista. Although there’s a list of things about Vista that infuriate me - lack of stability, compatibility and intuitive design, among others - I have to admit that certain aspects of Vista’s interface are quite useful. Call it the computer equivalent of the Stockholm syndrome.
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Aug 11
Somehow you’ve managed to overwrite the report you’ve been working on for weeks, and now all your effort has just vanished in a few spins of the hard drive. But wait! Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions include a feature called Shadow Copy that lets you browse backward in time, recovering a specific version of your file, not just the most recent copy. Each system-restore point or backup point that Windows creates initiates a new Shadow Copy. So at least once a day, Vista creates another copy of your precious files, without your having to lift a finger.
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Aug 10
Samsung isn’t just pushing the envelope in storage capacity of SSDs (solid-state drives), it is also working with software makers to boost SSD performance on operating systems. The company on Wednesday said it was in talks with Microsoft to improve the performance of SSDs on the Windows OS.
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Aug 09
When we talk about tools to make technology better we often overlook what is right under our noses. I have been working with Windows Vista since the early Beta stages. I have written articles about the user battle that seems to be raging between Windows XP and Vista .I have even had the privilege of being named a Windows Vista Master in Que Publishing’s Tricks of the Windows Vista Masters by J. Peter Bruzzese.
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Aug 08
Why use an operating system other organizations have rejected? That’s a question many enterprises will be asking themselves when considering moving some or all of their Windows desktops to Microsoft Vista. A small minority of organizations run Linux or Mac OS X on the desktop and have no interest in Vista for that reason. But most others will at least consider migrating. And these businesses are overwhelmingly rejecting Vista, according to a report called “Enterprise Trends: Vista Is Rejected; Mozilla and Apple Make Small Gains,” which Forrester Research published in late July.
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Aug 07
Seems Vista laced with 64-bit technology is making more headway than previously thought. Now that PC manufacturers are opting to pre-install it over the 32-bit version, adoption numbers are actually on the rise. Consumers with high-memory demands and gaming requirements appreciate the added power boost.
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Aug 06
The Mother-in-law versus Vista battle cold war never ends. Every week, it’s something different that goes wrong that brings us to the brink of annihilation, and I have to swoop in on the weekends to fix the inevitable new problem that comes up. Fortunately, I have the system more or less stabilized, and I finally figured what was going wrong with her Multiple Listing System printing out all sorts of HTML garbage issue. You care about how I figured it out, right? No? Well, too bad.
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Aug 05
Today you will see the best campaign Microsoft did since its beginings! Now do you love Windows Vista or not? This is how bad things have gotten for Microsoft Corp.: The software behemoth has a virtual monopoly in computer operating systems, and yet it still can’t get people to buy the latest version of its flagship product, Windows. In fact, things are so bleak for Windows Vista that customers have actually launched campaigns aimed at saving Vista’s stiffest competition — the previous version of Windows, XP, which is now so old in technology years that it should qualify for Social Security.
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Aug 04
Such is the case with 64-bit computing. Advanced Micro Devices launched 64-bit chips for the desktop back in 2003, hoping the fact that it was there and didn’t cost extra would convince consumers. “Our industry, right now, is hungry for another round of innovation,” AMD chief Hector Ruiz told the crowd at the San Francisco launch in September 2003. Not that hungry, apparently.
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Aug 03
While Microsoft recently reported it has collectively shipped some 180 million units licensed with Windows Vista, the numbers might not exactly ring true thanks to reports from HP, Dell, and others that say they’ve been opting to ship PCs downgraded to XP instead. Microsoft’s 180 million units-sold figure is therefore misleading since it includes these units that don’t truly include Vista.
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Aug 02
Microsoft always paints a picture of the competitive landscape in when it files its annual 10-K report to the Securities and Exchange Commission. In a sign of the times, there are a few new clouds when this year’s report was filed Thursday, including a Web browser’s first appearance as a threat to Windows, Microsoft’s biggest cash cow.
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Aug 01
Microsoft is extending its Windows Vista marketing efforts even further by releasing a series of tuning tips to download. The company has published some well known tips to speed up Windows Vista in one way or another, in PDF and XPS formats.
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