Windows Vista Google Alerts for 19 January 2009

Windows 7 Beta Beats Vista in Brutal SSD Showdown
ITProPortal – London,UK
Hardware website Tweaktown has tested how well Windows 7 Beta and Windows Vista behaved when being used with solid state drives, in single drive and RAID 0 …
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Windows Vista in a Nutshell: Networking
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
The following article is excerpted from Windows Vista In A Nutshell with permission of O’Reilly Media Inc. Windows Vista includes many tools, …
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Why You Should Go 64-Bit With Windows 7
Gizmodo – USA
Microsoft itself is pimping 64-bit over 32-bit now and notebook makers have already started pushing 64-bit Windows Vista over 32-bit. …
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Microsoft releases Vista virtualization
Register – London,England,UK
Microsoft has released a public beta of desktop virtualization software to run legacy Windows applications on Windows Vista. Microsoft Enterprise Desktop …
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A Windows Experience
District – Savannah,GA,USA
Perhaps Windows 7 will actually sell more copies than its predecessor. Windows Vista still undersells its predecessor, Windows XP. I think Microsoft got the …
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Windows 7 Beta Outperforms Vista on SSDs
Newmobilecomputing.com – USA
The results show that when it comes to reading, Windows 7 beats Windows Vista in almost every test, but the results do come in close. …
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Microsoft MED-V public Beta announced
InfoWorld – San Francisco,CA,USA
As an example, IT shops can continue to run Windows XP-based applications even while they upgrade to Vista. MED-V is Microsoft’s first application released …
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SSD tests show Windows 7 beta beating Vista SP1
Ars Technica – Boston,MA,USA
TweakTown has run some tests with the Patriot Warp2 128GB SSD SATA drive for both RAID 0 and single drive setups, comparing Windows 7 beta and Windows Vista …
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Time Machine wipes out Boot Camp
InfoWorld – San Francisco,CA,USA
I had an activated copy of Windows Vista Ultimate there, painstakingly outfitted with all of the incrementally-released Vista updates, plus Office and …
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What are People saying About the Windows 7 Beta? – Windows …
Without a doubt, the first beta edition of the Windows 7 operation system indicates that Microsoft is on the right track to shore up many of the perceived flaws of Windows Vista… And at its heart, Windows 7’s greatly improved emphasis …
The Windows Blog – http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/

Microsoft Watch – Windows 7 – How Does Windows 7 Rate You?
I’m more satisfied running Windows 7 on this laptop than any other with Windows Vista. But there’s this psychological thing, of going from a three-eight to a, ah, two. It’s not a good feeling, but it’s not one likely to last. …
Microsoft Watch – http://www.microsoft-watch.com/

Playing 3D Pinball Game In Vista ~ The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP
But for those of us who enjoyed playing pinball, there is a way to add the game to Vista. First you will need to copy the 3D Pinball game from a XP machine. The game is located in the folder:. C:Program Files\Windows NT …
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP – http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/

Windows 7 Beta Outperforms Vista on SSDs
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