Windows Vista has definitely never been a favorite matter among company IT people. According to a Forrester report, released late last week, two years after Vista's release, the OS is still competing in the enterprise sector. Forrester recently finished its annual hardware survey. It was found that IT managers at North American and European enterprises [...]
Microsoft is killing a tool that prevents upgrades from automatically self-installing. It is warning customers that tools for blocking automatic upgrades to the newest service packs of Windows Vista and Windows XP are going to expire in the forthcoming months. Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft's in-house Windows blogger, wrote in a post last week Friday that their [...]
Good news for those who are going to use Windows Vista Service Pack 2! According to reports, Microsoft has released a candidate “Escrow” build of Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows Server 2008. It was introduced after Microsoft moved up its release schedule for the software. Apparently, the releases are only available to private [...]
Recently, Microsoft released the final 1.0 version of Web Platform Installer (Web PI). The installer is under 60KB. The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool. It supports several Windows operating systems. With Web PI 1.0 it is simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform. Altogether, offering three [...]
Yesterday, Microsoft made the first release of its near-final "release candidate" version (RC1) of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). It is the next version of its Web browser which includes a few new features. The free browser is available for users of Windows Vista (64-bit), Windows Server (64-bit) and Windows XP Service Pack 2 (64-bit). Some [...]
Windows Vista has been Microsoft’s annoyance probably since the beginning of the operating system. The last quarter, of course wasn’t any exception. In spite of a decline in client software revenue, one analyst says the workforce reduction Microsoft revealed last Thursday is healthy, at least from the enterprise IT shops' view. When an earning report [...]
Experts of the plaintiffs estimate damages of 19.4 million to upgrade "Vista Capable" PCs. According to documents unveiled by a federal court, Microsoft would have to come up with as much as $8.5 billion to settle accounts with the customers affected by its 2006 "Vista Capable" marketing program. On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Marsha [...]
The Downadup or Conficker worm is a new danger for security experts! It spreads through PCs worldwide and has infected over 9 million of them in record time. According to researchers, drives like USB sticks infected with the virus trick users into installing the worm. Hackers reveal their intentions. Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure issued an [...]
An upcoming Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Server 2008 and Vista is scheduled for the first half of 2009. Confidential sources disclosed that Microsoft is going to deliver a Release Candidate in February, 2009 with the final SP2 binary scheduled for RTM (Release To Manufacturing) in April, 2009. Officially, Microsoft announced that a more [...]
Tweaktown, a hardware website has run some tests on SSD performance on Windows 7 compared to Windows Vista Service Pack 1. SSD performance was tested both in a single drive and RAID 0 setup configuration. The tests were conducted using the Patriot Warp 2 128GB SSD drive and Intel's ICH9R south-bridge chipset. They were run [...]