Nov 29
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Nov 29
With Vista’s first service pack due for wide release early next year, Microsoft is intent on addressing the many things which need to be fixed in its still-young operating system. The question is, are they going to fix the right things? I think not, since the problems this time ’round aren’t bugs so much as performance. Read on for my list of five must-have Vista corrections.
Nov 28
Nov 28
Businesses feel a move to Microsoft’s Windows Vista OS isn’t worth the effort yet, due to compatibility issues and it offering too few benefits over XP. Almost a year after the businesses version of Vista was released, it seems take-up remains sluggish and analysts predict this won’t change significantly for a while.
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Nov 27
Security researchers warn that attack code targeting an unpatched bug in Apple Inc.’s QuickTime has gone public, and added that in-the-wild attacks against systems running Windows XP and Vista are probably not far behind. There was no word as of Sunday whether the Mac OS X versions of the media player are also vulnerable.
Nov 27
Nov 27
Nov 27
A Microsoft Corp. product manager couldn’t correctly explain the “Vista Capable” marketing slogan, according to recent filings in a lawsuit that claims the company misled consumers with a prerelease Vista campaign last year. The case, first filed in March by Washington state resident Diane Kelley, charged Microsoft with deceptive practices in letting PC makers slap a “Vista Capable” sticker on PCs, when “a large number” of the machines would be able to run only Vista Home Basic, the simplest version of the operating system.
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