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Microsoft Partners Kicking Dirt On Vista’s Grave
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb For months, Microsoft has doggedly insisted that Windows Vista has been a rousing success, and that the negative image the …
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Next generation: a screenshot of Windows 7
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
The successor to Windows Vista is still in development, but stable test versions of it are being made available to Microsoft partners and the press, …
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The Irrelevance of Windows Vista
Infopackets - Windsor,ON,Canada
Despite Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s recent assertions that Windows Vista "is Microsoft’s best-selling product ever," there are many indications to the …
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Platform Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Computeractive - London,UK
It will also open web pages in tabs and then use the default Windows browser. As well as looking for programs and document titles, Keybreeze can also be …
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Vista-free outlook for Microsoft
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
By Martin J Young HUA HIN, Thailand - Microsoft has been touting its latest version of Windows this week and moved closer to dropping the much-derided Vista …
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Windows 7 early promise: Passes the Vista test
Register - London,England,UK
PDC Windows Vista is better than its reputation, but its reputation is pretty bad. During the press briefing for Windows 7 at Microsoft’s Professional …
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Review: Ubuntu 8.10 Is The Real Deal
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
Using the same, custom-built PC test bed loaded with, alternatively, Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista Business, Ubuntu proved to be a quicker installation, …
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A first look at Windows 7: small improvements add up to a …
Financial Times - London,England,UK
The company has also learned from the long and very public saga of developing Windows Vista. This time it has kept its plans very quiet until this week’s …
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Ozzie Points to Slimmer Future for Windows Client
PC World - USA
These PCs have less memory and CPU power, so they can’t support an OS with a footprint as big as the premium version of Windows Vista.
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Vista Fights for Relevancy Against Poor Sales, XP, Windows 7
PC World - USA
Recent sales numbers for Windows Vista paint a somewhat dreary picture for the OS as consumers and enterprises try to save dollars in an economic downturn. …
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Considerations When Multi-Booting Windows Vista
By Diana Huggins
If you are multi-booting Windows Vista and an older version of Windows, the older version should be installed before Windows Vista. Generally, the rule of thumb to follow is: install the oldest version of Windows first followed by each …
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boot performance of windows vista
By drey
yesterday at a windows vista hands on lab, the group mentioned three reasons why they weren’t widely deployed on vista 1) performance on their hardware, 2) application compatability and 3) training both end users and support staff. i …
TechNet Blogs - http://blogs.technet.com/default.aspx

Microsoft Gives Bloggers Laptops, Again
By Joe Wilcox
Around Christmas, Microsoft’s PR agency started shipping Windows Vista-preloaded laptops, unsolicited, to many bloggers. My former colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols joined the chorus of critics calling the laptops brides. …
Microsoft Watch - http://www.microsoft-watch.com/

What does Microsoft have against Windows Vista?
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
Now I understand that Microsoft has a vested interest in seeing Windows 7 become a success, but doesn’t it want to see Windows Vista become a success too? …
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Windows 7 security: An overall improvement?
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
At first glance, build 6801 of Windows 7 appears very much like Windows Vista; that’s because enhancements to the look and feel part of the operating system …
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Windows 7: What You Need to Know
PC Magazine - USA
Of course I’m referring to Windows 7, the long-rumored follow-up to Windows Vista. What’s new in Win 7? When will it arrive? We’ve got some answers to the …
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Windows 7 Could Debut In 2009
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
This week’s hype around Windows 7 means Vista sales will continue to decline. Vista, on the market for less than two years, is already pass. …
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Dell Inspiron Mini 12: Bigger display, Thinner body
Inquirer.net - Philippines
Windows XP and Ubuntu will still be the OS options for 2008 but come 2009, Windows Vista will likewise be available as well. There will also be 60GB or 80GB …
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Netbooks and the End of Windows Vista
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA
Most netbooks aren’t powerful enough to run Windows Vista, the current version of Microsoft’s operating system. HP’s new computer, for example, runs XP, …
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Windows 7 Gets Its Coming-Out Party
InternetNews.com - USA
Yet another change: The sidebar from Windows Vista that occupied the right side of the screen is gone. Under Windows 7, it’s possible to place widgets …
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Vista’s successor is more than Windows dressing
guardian.co.uk - UK
Indeed, you can build you own PC and expect Windows to work on it. It’s no secret that too few suppliers paid attention to the last version, Windows Vista, …
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You’ve got Windows 7 questions, I’ve got answers
ZDNet - USA
One example that illustrates the point is the difference between Backup programs in Windows Vista and Windows 7. The Windows 7 version, shown below, …
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What does Microsoft have against Windows Vista?
Don Reisinger thinks Microsoft is running away from Vista. But why would it want to do that already with Windows 7 more than a year away?
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Still Afraid of Vista? Microsoft Extends Windows Vista Small …
If you’ve been thinking about taking the plunge and upgrading to Vista anytime soon, you may want to do it before the end of the year. Microsoft is extending eligibility for its Windows Vista Small Business Assurance (WVSBA) program …
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More out-of-cycle Vista patches on Windows Update!
By Ed Tittel
More interesting, and more mysterious is the other item: a “reliability update” for Windows Vista described in a currently unavailable Knowledge Base article (KB957200). All I can find on this update so far is the standalone download …
Vista Enterprise Desktop - http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vista-enterprise-desktop/

Windows 7 Introduced at PDC
By Milo
Sinofsky made it clear that Windows 7 codebase is Windows Vista and since Vista is already two years old, driver support would no longer be an issue. Another important issue that Microsoft addressed is the memory requirements of Windows …
Windows Vista Weblog - http://www.windowsvistaweblog.com/