Windows Vista Google Alerts for 07 December 2008

Dell triples charge to downgrade PCs to XP to $150
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
Computer manufacturers can install Windows XP Professional on PCs at the factory by taking advantage of the "downgrade" rights built into Vista Business and …
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Vista Customer Satisfaction Climbs, Microsoft Claims
PC World – USA
Richard Francis, General Manager, Windows Client Group, Microsoft Asia Pacific, said that, overall, sales of Windows Vista licenses have passed 180 million …
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Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta now available
TechWhack (press release) – New Delhi,Delhi,India
Microsoft has now made available the first beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to everyone who is interested. The company however warns that it is not yet …
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Advent Eco PC gets photographed, tested
engadget – Santa Monica,CA,USA
… CPU would’ve probably increased the "greenness," and quite frankly, this machine lacks the raw horsepower necessary to adequately handle Windows Vista. …
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RE[2]: Those 10% ‘ers ain’t coming back
Newmobilecomputing.com – USA
Rather than putting Linux into it (because I’m on dial up and all my CD distros are out of date) i decided to give the Windows Vista Home Premium OS that …
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Making Windows Vista keyboard-friendly
Peninsula On-line – Qatar
Windows Explorer may arguably be the most-used application delivered with Vista, since it’s what you often use to access, copy, and delete files. …
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Enhance Your Windows Vista Start Menu Search Functionality With …
By MoiN
Welcome To The Future Of Online Search (4); Vista Utilities Makes Configuring Windows Vista Easier (19); Utilizing Windows Search 4.0 (Part 1) (4); Tweak Your Windows Operating System With Xpy (5); The Ultimate Extension for Windows …
MakeUseOf.com – http://www.makeuseof.com/

Windows Vista SP2 Beta – Initial impressions
By Vinny Carpenter
So I just installed SP2 of Windows Vista which is out in beta on my computer yesterday – so it’s been about 24 hours and my computer is stable and all of the applications I’ve used so far have worked just fine. …
Vinny Carpenter’s blog – http://www.j2eegeek.com/blog/

Windows Vista SP 2 beta & Windows Server 2008 beta available for …
By [email protected] (Hari Maurya)
Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista SP2 Beta apply to people, organizations, and technical enthusiasts who are comfortable evaluating prerelease software. This prerelease software is provided for testing only. …
TechSurface – http://www.techsurface.com/

Create high quality PDF like documents in Windows Vista
By TheGeek
For some reason if you don’t like the XPS capability of Windows Vista and never intend to use it then you can use the Rogosoft XPS Removal Tool. XPS Removal Tool can be used to remove the Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) print queue …
DemoGeek.com» DemoGeek.com -… – http://www.demogeek.com/

Save space by turning off hibernation and hybrid sleep
By Ciprian
Compared to Windows XP, Windows Vista has improved a lot when it comes to energy saving features. Not only it can dynamically adjust the voltage and the core frequency of your processor, thus decreasing the average power consumption and …
Windows Vista for Beginners -… – http://www.vista4beginners.com/

WIN32, WPF, WCF and More | Windows Developer Center on MSDN
Get information about Windows Vista SP2 beta, including how to download and and … How to enable Windows Vista to access the content and metadata of …