Mar 28
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).
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Mar 27
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.
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Mar 26
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.
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Mar 25
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.
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