There’s talk of a deal between Microsoft and mainstream content providers over the material that becomes available for Windows Vista.
It seems that analysts at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in San Francisco, believe that Vista may be a highly restrictive sandbox, where only the major movie studios call the shots.
Says Andy Patrizio of Technology Review […]
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How the Aero Glass 3D feature will look in high-end versions of Windows Vista. Hardware requirements for this effect are disputed because not all work on the display facility has been completed. However, a Microsoft strategist in Australia has said: “Vista will work best on a video card with more than 256MB RAM, 2GB of […]
Microsoft announced last week that to encourage companies to upgrade to Windows Vista it will release marketing funds of $100m for software companies developing applications for the operating system. The money will become available in about a year.
Around 84% of Microsoft’s revenue comes from sales of Windows and MS Office.
[Via Softpedia]
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Windows Vista could be the fastest selling operating system ever, reports InformationWeek, quoting Microsoft’s Jim Allchin :
Vista could be the fastest-adopted operating system in PC history, Microsoft group VP Jim Allchin said in an interview last week. About 475 million new PCs will ship within two years of Vista’s arrival, and Allchin said companies might […]
Rob Enderle of TechNewsWorld believes developers will make or break Windows Vista. His take is that the former is much more likely because the support community is totally behind the product.
The real power in this platform has always been tied to the support of the developer community. When they get excited about changes the platform’s […]
Remember the unseemly spat a couple of months ago when The Register claimed that IE7 Beta1 didn’t seem to support Google or Yahoo toolbars? It ended with accusations of doctored emails and a right old blogging punchup.
Microsoft seems to have listened and learned the lessons. The Internet Explorer team has announced that IE7 will support […]
At last week’s PDC (Professional Developers Conference) in LA, a lot was said about Microsoft “Gadgets”, or mini-applications, particularly in regard to the reinstated Sidebar feature of Windows Vista. The screenshot shows what some of them look like. In Vista they can be moved around the screen and left anywhere that takes your fancy.
Here’s what […]
Its been a while since our last best of post, but with some really, really big changes on the way what better time to celebrate some of the excellent content from across the network.
The Gadget Blog: Alternative Uses for an Apple Nano takes a different spin on the new offering from Apple, Korean Portable Video […]
There’s been a raft of speculation about a new blog network recently. So much has leaked out, as it does, that there’s no point in being coy. The new network is called b5media and is run by a galaxy of blog superstars. Well, three of them anyway :
Jeremy Wright, well known blogger, author, and […]
It must be hard being a “Digerati” and a “Connector” but not to get invited to the main feast. It seems that Dave Winer is not getting asked to big do’s anymore. Here’s his take on the PDC (Professional Developers Conference), just concluded in Los Angeles :
Now that the PDC is over, I also […]
A feature of Vista that’s almost passed unnoticed is the fast on-off “promise”, which is described in a Microsoft fact sheet thus :
Fast On-Off : A Windows Vista-based PC will turn on and off as quickly and reliably as a TV set — typically within 2–3 seconds. A simple one-click button will initiate the […]
A number of Tablet PC features will be incorporated into Windows Vista, including a “Personalization” engine which will analyze examples of your handwriting to improve standards of recognition on the system.
ZDNet reports : “Other new Tablet-specific features in this latest version of Vista include new ‘gestures’ designed to make it easier to navigate through Web […]
Minesweeper fans can breathe again. According to Joystiq [Via Chris Pirillo], it’s back in Windows Vista. We’re not exactly sure if it ever went away but, on behalf of all our readers who are hooked on it, here’s a hearty three cheers.
The screenshot shows how Minesweepers will appear in Windows Vista with Aero Glass.
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Speaking at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Jim Allchin, Group Vice President of Platforms at Microsoft, said that, “most of the work that is going to be applicable to the IT professional community will be in terms of our improvements of the basics ~ just engineering excellence and attempting to save money […]
Microsoft announced on Thursday that, “Windows Vista Enterprise is available exclusively as a benefit of Software Assurance and is designed to help midsize and larger organizations significantly lower IT costs and improve IT efficiency.”
Software Assurance was introduced five years ago to encourage users to pay an annual fee for Microsoft software and upgrades instead of […]
Web 2.0 “thin client” computing is being deftly smothered by Microsoft’s use of RSS 2.0 as a paradigmic connection technology across all its platforms, including Windows Vista.
Dana Gardner at ZDNet writes :
Microsoft is using RSS 2.0 as a major conduit of myriad content ~ including business-to-business applications interactions ~ inside, across, and for wide area […]
Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble points us to six new videos on aspects of Windows Vista at Channel 9.
Says Scoble :
Including a look at the new Networking stack, the new Audio stack, in Windows Vista and lots more. Very cool videos, hope you enjoy! … there’s some feature discussions there that haven’t been discussed anywhere yet.
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The story so far : Back at the TechEd conference, Nigel Page, a Microsoft strategist in Australia, made some remarks about the hardware requirements for Windows Vista. He allegedly stated that Vista would work best on a video card with more than 256MB RAM, 2GB of DDR3 fast memory and a S-ATA 2 hard drive.
Following […]
A Windows Vista screenshot released by Microsoft during PDC05 (Professional Developers Conference) in Los Angeles this week. The shot shows how games will be presented to users and included the Aero Glass user interface.
Games are said to include :
1. Checkers
2. Helix/Pinball
3. Solitaire/Spider Solitaire/Hearts
4. Chess
5. FreeCell
6. Mahjong Solitaire
7. Spades.
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