Companies should think twice about skipping Windows Vista and should get started sooner rather than later on updating their client desktops to the latest Microsoft operating system, according to an independent report issued by Forrester Research.
Forrester Research is advising its clients against skipping Windows Vista when planning their operating system deployments. But one of the reasons Forrester is using — because Vista’s successor, Windows 7, will no doubt will be late — is not a good assumption, in my book.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 was slated for delivery during the first half of 2008, but Microsoft seems intent on downplaying the attention Windows XP SP3 might get in favor of pushing Windows Vista. Windows XP SP3 won’t mark a significant change. While XP SP3 may patch some issues, it won’t have the same impact as Windows XP SP2.
Hampton Solutions, distributors of Quick Heal Antivirus in South Africa announce yet another award won. Quick Heak Antivirus Plus 2008 has passed the tests for allow it to be awarded Check Mark Certification for Windows Vista Business Edition.
The update to Windows Search fixes most of the bugs users have reported since the system was released to manufacturing, a product manager claims.Microsoft has made a public preview of Windows Search 4.0, the next version of desktop search for Windows, available for download.
Amid an overwhelmingly negative presentation from analyst group Gartner that claims “Windows is collapsing,” many are beginning to wonder what is in store for Windows 7, and how radical a departure from its current code base W7 might be. Vista is clearly the straw that has broken the camel’s back. Years and years of bloated code and a failed attempt to support 20 years of outdated software and ancient peripherals have left the operating system a total mess. Vista is so big and complicated that attempting to build additional code onto it is futile.
One of Windows Vista’s design features was deliberately implemented “to annoy users,” a Microsoft executive admitted yesterday at the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco. David Cross, a product unit manager, explained to an audience that Vista’s User Account Control scheme was built to discourage people from running as an administrator on their computers, which in case of attack can grant hackers deeper access than they might otherwise be allowed. “We needed to change the ecosystem, and we needed a heavy hammer to do it,” said Cross.
Microsoft said Tuesday that it’s resumed distribution of a prerequisite file for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 after fixing a bug that caused some users’ computers to enter a cycle of reboots during installation of the file. The fix applies to Microsoft’s Servicing Stack Update for Vista SP1. Users need to install the update before downloading SP1.
Microsoft yesterday issued eight patches for 10 flaws, including six critical vulnerabilities that hackers have already started to pore over. While there were no zero-day flaws, the new batch poses a very real danger to users, who can be unknowingly redirected to a malicious site, or infected by viewing a malicious ad inserted onto an otherwise trusted Web site. April’s Patch Tuesday also takes the shine off Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1, which needed patching due to their extensive reuse of legacy Windows code.
Microsoft today resumed the automatic distribution of a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) prerequisite, called the Servicing Stack Update (SSU), after releasing a fix for the problem. The resumption of this download means that millions of additional Windows Vista owners will begin receiving Vista SP1 automatically via Windows Update in the days ahead.
If you have a computer system in your office, Microsoft is about to put you between a rock and a hard place.As of June 30, the world’s largest software company will, for practical purposes, stop selling its most popular operating system: Windows XP.
Yes, it’s mostly, sort-of true – Microsoft’s precious Vista source code is now in the public domain… and while some would say it’s not quite what we were expecting, others say it’s spot on! An article over at Digg has uncovered the explosive details of Windows Vista’s source code.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates stated on Friday that Windows Vista may not be the top operating system from the company for long. He stated that within the next year or so, we will see Windows 7, the successor to Vista.Gates was making a public appearance on Friday at the Inter-American Development Bank in Miami, Florida.
Adobe Photoshop CS4, also known as Creative Suite, is also bundled with Illustrator, Dreamweaver and other applications for print and Web design. However, this 64-bit memory addressing program is only for Microsoft Windows Vista.
Microsoft Corp. continues to give its tacit blessing for consumers to exploit a technical loophole that allows them to upgrade to Vista with Service Pack 1, even if they don’t own the necessary prior editions of Windows. The loophole, which was also present when Vista was first released last year, allows individuals undaunted by Microsoft’s licensing and installation rules to save up to $110 by purchasing a DVD upgrade of Vista SP1, rather than the full retail one.
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