Windows Vista Google Alerts for 02 April 2009

Texas Senate Proposes a Budget With a No-Vista-Upgrades Rider
Slashdot – USA
… to a state budget that includes a provision forbidding government agencies from upgrading to Windows Vista without written consent of the legislature. …
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Bring an old PC back up to speed
USA Today – USA
Got Windows Vista? Raise your memory to 2GB if you have a 32-bit machine. Owners of 64-bit machines can go to 4GB. Actually, you can go a lot higher. …
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Texas state Senate bans Vista from use in government agencies
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
s Windows Vista without written consent of the legislature. "We are not in any way, shape or form trying to pick on Microsoft, but the problems with this …
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Texas moves to limit Vista sales to government
VNUNet.com – UK
A last minute clause inserted into the budget for Texas will required government officials to get written authorisation before buying Windows Vista. …
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NVIDIA GTX 275 Graphics Card: 35% Faster Than HD 4890?
PC World – USA
Texas to Windows Vista: Keep Walkin’? Texas lawmakers seal the deal on their state’s budget, including a provision that essentially bans future Windows …
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US states may seek Microsoft anti-trust extension
Register – London,England,UK
States, lead by California and New York, cited complaints from unnamed hardware and software companies over Windows Vista promotional complaints. …
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Platform: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
VNUNet.com – UK
When you wish to delete any sensitive information, like personal data or unwanted content, you want to be sure that it will be deleted permanently. …
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Maritime Software includes calculators and converters.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) – New York,NY,USA
Maritime Software Suite for Vista runs under Win98,WinME,Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003,Windows Vista Starter,Windows Vista Home Basic,Windows Vista Home …
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Increase USB Sample Rate in Windows Vista | Work Smart
By techwhack
Increase USB Sample Rate in Windows Vista · Tools April 3rd, 2009 17 views. Tags: usb, windows, Windows Vista · How to Increase USB Sample Rate. Leave a comment Comment RSS | | Author: prathapml | AddThis Feed Button …
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Windows PowerShell Blog : Setting Network Location to Private
By PowerShellTeam
The Network Location feature was introduced in Windows Vista. It provides an easy way to customize your firewall settings based on whether you trust or don’t trust the computers around you. There are three Network Location types …
Windows PowerShell Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/default.aspx

Shuttleworth: Windows 7 Is Yet Another Opportunity for Linux
Linux was supposed to make inroads into the desktop market when Windows Vista proved to be a flop. Linux failed. Linux was supposed to make inroads when the netbook market emerged. Linux failed. Linux was supposed to make inroads once …
OSNews – http://www.osnews.com/

Texas bans Windows Vista from government use
By Sam Symons
Windows Vista wasn’t the biggest commercial success; many companies refused to use it initially, and are sticking with XP for now. It’s strange, however, that the state of Texas has only just now declared it unfit for government use, …
Neowin.net / Gamers – http://www.neowin.net/

Windows Vista Problem – Straight Dope Message Board
By robcaro
Windows Vista Problem General Questions. … I just did an update for Vista and after it rebooted, Windows Update in Control Panel won’t activate. Only pops up and then disappears. Cannot get it to function correctly. Any ideas? …
Straight Dope Message Board – http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/