As the release of Windows Vista approached, the reports about how neat it was quickly turned to reports about how messed up it was, or still is: dropped features, poor performance, compatibility problems, crashes, you name it. Most of that was overblown. Certainly the computers that ran the five-year-old Windows XP couldn’t all be expected to run Vista well (even the much-heralded Mac OS bumps-up system requirements significantly over that span of time).
Microsoft is mad as hell over the industry’s negative view of Vista, and the software giant isn’t going to take it anymore. In the latest sign of Microsoft’s growing frustration with Vista critics, Chris Flores, a director with the Windows Client communications team, hotly disputed a recent Forrester report that claims Vista just isn’t making much headway with business users, characterizing Forrester’s findings as “schizophrenic.”
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Ok, so the ‘wow’ didn’t exactly happen in quite the way Microsoft hoped but are we all being a little too harsh on Windows Vista? Microsoft certainly thinks so. It’s set out to prove that, if we just gave Vista a chance, we’d all be ditching XP and Windows 2000 quicker than you can say ‘blue screen of death’.
Rarely does a week go by that there isn’t at least one story in the media about the supposed shortcomings of Windows Vista or how companies are scorning it because of incompatibilities or a perceived lack of business value. Reading this coverage, you might get the impression that Windows Vista’s predicament is unique among the various versions of Windows. A decade spent helping customers assess the savings and business value of a Windows upgrade tells me otherwise.
Javvin Technologies, Inc. has just published the Windows Vista Security Quick Guide. Windows Vista security quick guide covers all daily used Windows Vista security features and options, provides quick solutions when crisis happens, and gives tips for users to better manage his/her system to achieve security goals.
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It has been a year-and-a-half since Microsoft launched Vista. And yet, in some IT circles, mentioning Vista in a crowd of IT professionals evokes a snarling reaction that’s normally associated with throwing a raw steak to a pack of Rottweilers. With that in mind, it’s worth pondering the question: What’s the real source of the continued negativity around Vista, and why do some IT professionals still love to tear it apart whenever it’s mentioned?
After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista’s skeptics. Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a “new” operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that “Mojave” was actually Windows Vista.
Microsoft is really taking the gloves off this time. ZDNet is reporting that it will spend $500 million to make a powerful statement to its hundreds of millions of customers. I imagine the statement would have to go something like this:
Apple Inc. installed a control panel applet for its MobileMe online sync and storage service on Windows XP and Windows Vista systems when they were updated to iTunes 7.7 — the second time this year that it’s bundled new software with an update for an existing program.
XP , it seems has been shown the door to promote Vista; which has been desperately seeking the limelight. People are obviously made to switch to Vista or given the option, if they feel reluctant to do so, they can downgrade to Windows which is integrated as an option by default with Vista.
Early on, I was amused when Microsoft would tease the public about its next big thing. The company would describe the product as the coolest thing ever, and the public and the media would lap it up like kittens discovering cream. Microsoft was pretty good at controlling the media, controlling public relations—controlling the public itself. It was the company’s heyday.
There is a list of proficient operating systems in the Information technology souk. A consumer gets baffled in choosing suitable operating system for a computer. Latest operating systems in the market are Leopard from Mac OS, Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista (service pack 1) and Ubuntu. Here we will thrash out the characteristics of each operating system and this information will definitely assist a consumer to go for a suitable operating system for him.
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What is the purpose of the Virtual Store? Using either the uninstall program that came with some software or using Windows uninstall, I have removed Kodak printer, Legacy Genealogy, and Registry Cleaner software in the past two to three weeks. But all the software is still in Virtual Store after uninstalling. I have manually deleted it but wondered why uninstalling did not remove it. Read the rest of this entry »
The filesharing tool MacDrive 7 for Windows now supports the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, according to developer MediaFour. The application allows users to access Mac-formatted disks from their Windows desktops. Mac files are automatically assigned the proper icons and file name extension whether used on a Windows or a Mac, the company said.
For a few months now I’ve been hearing stories from people who claim to be getting a much better Windows experience by ditching Windows Vista and adopting Windows Server 2008 as a desktop operating system. But are there any benefits to throwing your copy of Vista into the bin and running Windows Server 2008?
For a few weeks now I’ve been experimenting with Windows Server 2008 as a “Workstation” OS on a few virtual and physical systems and I’m not so convinced that it’s as workable as some people suggest.
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