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Windows Vista = XP with Less Applications, Less Speed ...
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36259 Installing A PS/2 Mouse Turns Off Firewall, Huh! ,----[ Quote ] I plugged in the PS/2 mouse, NET Addict", so it should be pretty obvious that the day Vista's RTM build came out, I downloaded it and installed it on every Vista-capable machine I had in my

Vista's final test version
This article gives you insight on how even the simple acts of starting and stopping Windows create opportunities to get a tremendous amount of maintenance All Windows Vista Capable PCs will run these core experiences at a minimum. Some features available in the premium editions of Windows Vista-like the new

1080p Televisions interfacing to PCs
Alan Baker alangba...@telus.net comp sys mac advocacy In article <1175800794.185155. 65...@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, "-hh" <recscuba_goo...@huntzinger.com> wrote: Alan Baker <alangba...@telus.net> wrote: "John Slade" <hhitma...@pacbell.net> wrote: ... You should have heard some Mac Kook's claims about Vista.

[Rival] Vista Service Pack 1 Fixes [Microsoft's ...
Could it be that only half of the PC's extent today are capable of running Vista effectively? Time, as usual I guess, will tell. Some of the new Vista features behind the scenes would be boring for most people, but they will cut the costs of maintaining Windows is a large environment.

Windows Vista Ready PC
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070829-microsoft-issues-fix-for-vista- graphics-memory-overflows.html Buying a new PC? 'Windows Vista Capable' barely hits the mark ,----[ Quote ] Microsoft's on-the-box minimum RAM requirement "really isn't realistic," according to David Short, an IBM consultant who works in

Could it be? Something Windows can do but Linux can't?
Sangria sang...@inlink.com comp os ms-windows advocacy comp sys mac advocacy In article <4t6s07$...@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>, John Wiltshire, j...@qits.net.au says. It runs [snip] Are all Alpha's capable of running an Internet search engine as quickly as Alta Vista or are these watered-down Alphas that have inherited

Vista Minimum requirements not realistic?
In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that Vista has "high impact" problems. `---- http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125 According to Jo Foley, going back to her Microsoft-Watch days (she has a dipute with them now), Fiji was slated to be the next version of Windows,

Barry loves his laptop.New computer--anyone else getting one
In article <bob-CCB0BD.16535418102...@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>, Bob Campbell <b...@bob.bob> wrote: But it could be argued that this is in no small part due to iPods and the fact that Apple now sells WinTel PCs. They do? Which Apple PCs are shipped with Windows? Which Apple PCs can run windows without either

Advice for Escaping Windows in Favour of Linux
Of course, you can upgrade most new Windows XP computers you buy now to Windows Vista after January. And starting today, Microsoft and PC makers are offering an Express Upgrade program that will provide copies of Vista for free, or at reduced prices, to people who buy Windows XP machines bearing a "Vista Capable"

Thanks for the news article. By the way..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/07/symantec_thompson_microsoft/ Windows Vista's Firewall offers false sense of security ,----[ Quote ] Knowing that Windows Vista's firewall is capable of outbound blocking, but that it wrongfully defaults to let all programs access the Internet when it should let none,

Windows Vista Inside out
Bill Yanaire B...@yaniaire.com microsoft public windows vista general Do you have any articles on reverse mortgages? The lawsuit said Microsoft's labeling of some PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" was misleading because many of those computers were not powerful enough to run all of Vista's features, including the

Steer Clear of Windows Vista Basic
PCs are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Sigh! There is no reason that a PC can't run _better_ than a PDP-10 monitor. Sheesh! THAT, not Windows-95 (a single-user OS) was the underlying basis for XP and Vista. Note that it doesn't matter if a new OS is used that is capable of this multi-user

MS: "We really botched this."
In article <1213f5uhvk9d...@corp.supernews.com>, getne...@dslextreme.com says... Apple didn't support Windows natively on PPC so what are you losing? He is losing nothing. Apple is losing a sale. He *must* have a windows capable unit. He already does. He'd have been delighted to make that windows capable unit a Mac

Price of PCs as Vista nears? Dell slashes prices even for ...
Jim j...@NOSpaMync.net comp sys mac advocacy In article <iadvocate-A2D0A1. 19400926112...@news.videotron.ca>, iMojo <iadvoc...@macs.net> wrote: Lawyers for PC They said consumers seeing a Windows Vista Capable logo would have thought the PC they were buying would be capable of running an operating system that

VisTa a ha ha
OEMs hate it, because Vista prices have not held. In fact, Vista PC prices have fallen BELOW the prices for similarly equipped Windows XP machines, without making any sacrificed. http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/19/dell.casts.doubts.on.vista/ Lenovo offers downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP Lenovo is

PCWorld: Macs run Vista faster than PCs
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9015701 You can understand these people beeing cheesed off. Related: Buying a new PC? 'Windows Vista Capable' barely hits the mark ,----[ Quote ] Microsoft's on-the-box minimum RAM requirement "really isn't realistic," according

Signs of Weakness in Vista: Microsoft Does Clearance Sale
The vulnerability is caused by an unspecified error in the way Windows 2000, XP, and Vista handles animated cursors. Dell Computer, to determine if it could deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based computers pass their shelf life.

What Happens When You Buy 4GB of RAM for Windows Vista?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139961-pg,1/article.html Excerpts: Latest filings in 'Vista Capable' lawsuit ,----[ Quote ] The lawsuit over Microsoft's ..... I expected things to improve when I ran the finished software on PCs configured for the new Windows version. I now realize that Vista really is slow unless

The Vista G spot
In addition there have been quite a few writeups on this (although not going into quite as much detail as this document) in magazines both online and in print, one example being PC World's feature article Will your PC run Windows Vista?" which covers this in the appropriately-titled section "Multimedia in chains".

[Rival] Don't Ever Touch Windows Vista If You Like Audio
Some signal sources (say, Windows Vista with an HDCP video card, or a HD-DVD player or Blue-Ray player) have HDCP signals and will NOT output HD But I remember reading an article in EDN back in the spring where apparently the author claimed that none of the PCs with video cards will actually be able to display