Jul 02
Microsoft New Zealand is ramping up its efforts to encourage local businesses and home computer users to switch to its new, much-maligned Windows Vista operating system.
The company believes it can do a better job spreading the word about Vista’s potential to boost workplace productivity and plans to publicise more examples of local organisations using the operating system. Microsoft has dominated the global personal computer operating system market through the various incarnations of Windows, which run on about nine out of every 10 computers.
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Jul 01
Dell is actively promoting a Microsoft licensing loophole to channel partners eager to keep selling PCs installed with Windows XP, after Microsoft’s official cut off. The Dell channel blog is pointing resellers to the loophole in the Windows Vista license that enables business customers to downgrade from the unwanted Windows Vista to its dated, but comfortable and better-supported predecessor.
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Jun 30
Today, June 30, Microsoft stops selling Windows XP at retail and major PC vendors, and will stop offering it as an option for consumers who buy new PCs. By coincidence, this change came three days after Microsoft founder Bill gates retired from his job as Chief Software Architect, but neither Gates nor XP are completely removed from the scene.
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Jun 29
Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging security holes, fixing bugs, fixing the fixes that never worked properly, all while maintaining compatibility with older software and hardware — is there anything Windows doesn’t try to do?
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Jun 28
On Monday, Microsoft will stop selling copies of the operating system to retailers and computer manufacturers. There are exceptions: Until June 2010, manufacturers of limited and lower-cost computers can place Windows XP Home on the machines, and small businesses that custom-build PCs will be able to install XP on computers through Jan. 31, 2009.
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