Microsoft is becoming a bit more lenient with the limits it has imposed on netbooks manufactures who wish to use Windows XP as the OS. As of Wednesday, Microsoft officially doubled the maximum allowable hard disk drive size to 160 GB, up from 80GB. MSI and Asustek already have taken action to update their Windows XP netbook offerings to feature 160 GB HDDs, which should affect the MSI Wind U100 and Asus Eee PC 1000H netbooks.
It seems the days of Windows XP are numbered, and soon people are getting accustomed to use Windows Vista on their computers. However, many users complain about the low speed of Vista. This is natural for people to look for a super fast speed, but a lot depends on your PC. So if you have a slow computer, you may find Vista a slower operating system than XP. But, if you follow some of the tips described hereunder, you may do a lot to optimize your PC and make Windows Vista work faster on it:
In an answer to the market’s demand for a better, more user-friendly Microsoft(R) Windows(R), Extensoft announced today the release of its Extensions for Windows — a product that significantly broadens the functionality of both Windows XP and Vista. Extensions for Windows is the first community driven, modular upgrade for Windows XP and Vista and contains a number of new features Windows users have desired as part of the operating system.
Microsoft Corp.’s latest beta version of Internet Explorer 8 requires more than double the system memory of its main rival, Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox, and spawns nearly six times the number of processor threads, a performance researcher said today. IE8 Beta 2 also consumes 52% more memory than IE7 and uses almost three times as many threads, said Craig Barth, chief technology officer at Devil Mountain Software Inc., a Florida-based maker of PC performance testing software.
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