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.
An eBay listing for the Windows Vista laptop that was successfully compromised at last week’s Pwn2Own hacking contest was removed after the online auctioneer said it violated terms that forbid sales of items that might do harm.
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As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel’s upcoming Atom processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner. The software company plans to stop selling most Windows XP licenses after June 30, yet most of these low-cost laptops won’t be powerful enough to run Vista when they arrive later this year.
In the land of Hello Kitty and pink notebook PCs, Microsoft has produced a pink special offer for Vista Home Premium: it’s bundled with a year of OneCare and a tips and tricks book.Even more interesting is the price. I can’t read Japanese, but if it really is 2500 Yen, that’s only about $25, or £12.50. The UK recommended price for Home Premium is £219.99, which is, frankly, silly.
It held out as long as possible, but a Windows Vista laptop fell to a determined bunch of hackers Friday evening at the Pwn to Own contest at CanSecWest.Since it was the third day of the contest, which saw a MacBook Air get hacked on Thursday, the TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative relaxed the rules even further. On the first day of the contest, only the operating system could be targeted, but on the second day that was expanded to include standard applications. An undisclosed Safari flaw led to the MacBook Air’s downfall.
Microsoft’s year-old Windows Vista operating system could get a boost now that Microsoft has issued the first set of bug fixes for the product. Many users, particularly businesses and other enterprises, won’t consider installing a new Microsoft
Surprised? You shouldn’t be, considering NVIDIA drivers caused most of the crashes in Windows XP as well. It’s just Vista’s more graceful when it comes to handling said failures. When Vista and DirectX 10 were announced all those years ago, it wasn’t the graphics that had my giblets tingling. No, it was integration. Vista promised to treat your graphics card as part of the normal make-up of a PC, rather than an optional extra, by delivering GPU multi-tasking/scheduling and virtualised video memory. With these improvements, we got Aero Glass, Direct3D 10 and, of course, the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM).
We asked, you answered, and the XP vs. Vista mud is still flying.Read our articleon the results of a recent PCW reader survey, and thenjoin the discussion. Speaking of Windows Vista, does Microsoft’srecent service packimprove the OS? Most readers say no, although some never liked Vista to begin with. What do you think?Let us know.
Microsoft Corp.’s security team today acknowledged that it knew of bugs in its Jet Database Engine as far back as 2005 but did not patch the problems because it thought it had blocked the obvious attack vectors.A researcher at Symantec Corp. said Microsoft should have fixed the flaws years ago.
The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 is designed for organizations looking to install Vista SP1 on 50 or more PCs. It’s available as a free download from the software maker’s Web site. Microsoft has released a new toolkit with an eye to making it easier for businesses to upgrade their computers to Windows Vista Service Pack1.
Microsoft Corp. is offering free support to any Windows Vista user experiencing problems with installing Service Pack 1 (SP1), according to a company spokesman. “[Anyone] needing technical support regarding your installation of Windows Vista SP1, please go to the following URL and choose the bottom option that says, ‘Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (All Languages),’” said Brandon LeBlanc, a Microsoft employee who posted several comments to the company’s Vista blog. The link LeBlanc pointed users to led to a Vista SP1-specific support site.
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Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 is available through Windows Update service and retailers. The Service Pack 1 is free to download beginning Tuesday. Online retailer Amazon is also taking pre-orders for boxed copies of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, which it said it will start shipping Wednesday.
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