My, they do like gamers at Redmond, Wash. What with Xbox 360, Media Player 11, and Media Center PC all aiming for world domination, there’s more than a whiff of gamer hogwash around.
Microsoft Game Advisor is a new tool, part of the Vista generation of products, which will act as a gaming dashboard and portal.
According […]
Screenshot via PC World
Take a look at the screenshot, purportedly taken of IE7 in Windows Vista Build 5231 (also known as Community Technical Preview 2). Notice how “Web Feeds” seems to have been replaced by … yes, “RSS”.
Some people will be very pleased with that, Dave Winer for one. But does this represent a […]
Windows Vista will incorporate a reader for XPS, an XML Paper Specification, codenamed “Metro”, Microsoft’s proprietary rival to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format).
Office 12 applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Visio, OneNote, and InfoPath, will include a “Save As XPS” option, said Jeff Bell, a program manager on the Office Development Team.
“This Office feature provides […]
MSN’s revenue growth was less than one percent in the third quarter (Q1 in Microsoft’s fiscal year). Clearly the company is not making as much money on advertising as Google.
According to The Register : “Wall St analysts, clearly wowed by Google’s ballooning business model, quizzed Microsoft over why MSN’s revenue is projected to be flat […]
The dropping of WinFS (Windows Future Storage) from the first release of Windows Vista represented a blow to Microsoft’s credentials in content search.
At a time when Bill Gates has given the company six months to match, or even overtake, Google in this field, the company is stressing that Vista will have impressive system-wide search facilities.
PC […]
MS Mobiles.com is speculating about podcasting support (RSS with attachments) in Windows Vista. It seems Adam Curry, often wrongly credited with inventing podcasting (it was Dave Winer), was shown a fully-functioning Windows Media Player with podcasting support on a recent visit to Redmond.
The guess is that this functionality will become available with the standalone release […]
Microsoft’s David Fleischman asks “What would you like to see in Media Center? Assume that Vista Media Center is the same a XP Media Center (it isn’t). What are you hoping to see come out or would love to have?”
You can reply in the comments section of David’s MSDN blog.
His philosophy :
In the end I […]
Although Microsoft Product Manager for Windows Vista, Michael Burk, has not given an exact timeframe, Ethan Allen of Hotfix has zeroed-in on 25 July, 2006 as the date for release to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
OEMs will need to “get a jump on the Christmas season”, says Allen, a Microsoft beta tester.
Allen has a history of […]
Addict 3D reports rumors of a new RTM date for Windows Vista :
Rumors are abound that the RTM date has officially been set for July 25th, 2006. Microsoft is pushing hard for this date to prepare OEM’s for the Christmas season ramp-up. With all of the new sku’s being released, OEM’s and Microsoft have been […]
Scott Braden has written a detailed article in Redmond Mag on that troubled topic of Windows Software Assurance licenses with particular regard for the upcoming Vista upgrade.
When you buy a PC from a store, it comes with a license. That license dies with the PC and is non-tranferable. The same is true with a shrink-wrapped, […]
Microsoft has come to terms with British publisher Future to publish the official Windows Vista magazine, initially in the USA, UK, France and Italy.
The company will have a five-year worldwide license. It will sublicense the title to publishers in 32 other countries.
Future also announced that it had exclusive world rights to publish similar magazines […]
IE Phishing Filter in action
The current version of Internet Explorer, IE6, is to get the “phishing filter” slated for IE7. The bad news? It only comes as an add-on to the MSN toolbar.
While the security measure will be embedded in IE7, a free 1.3MB download of the add-on is now available in beta form for […]
Cutting through the server problems of the last few days, which I hope are behind us now, here’s a simple post, just to get things going again.
A little touch of Scoble, I thought, would get us back in the mood for Windows Vista. Here he is on his new blog getting very excited about … […]
Windows Vista Weblog is in the process of moving servers after serious outages in the past couple of days.
Normal service will resume tomorrow, Saturday.
Thanks for your patience.
John Evans
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PC World has got a nice feature going asking readers to send in their Wish List for Windows Vista. Here’s a couple of examples :
From Jonathan Warshay
One thing that annoys me is that Windows cannot keep track of a user’s settings in Display properties. My children like to put the resolution way up high, […]
Businesses are still sounding extremely cautious over their plans to implement Windows Vista at the back end of 2006.
A Merrill Lynch survey of 100 North American CIOs concludes that two-thirds of businesses are delaying decisions involving an upgrade to the Vista operating system.
Only eight percent said they are planning an upgrade in 2007. […]
In a move certain to be noticed by regulators and competitors, Microsoft is integrating its standalone AntiSpyware software into Windows Vista. Microsoft confirmed this, says eWeek, as the latest build was released on Monday.
Greg Sullivan, lead Windows product manager said : “The core Windows AntiSpyware functionality gets built in. For unmanaged environments ~ home and […]
Windows Vista Mobility Center
As promised at the PDC, Microsoft is releasing the first of its monthly Community Technology Previews (CTP) of Windows Vista. The strategy is to get more frequent and relevant feedback.
The highlights of the release are a first look at Windows Media Player 11, and a variety of new features for IE7, including […]
If you want to get from DVD to the new video iPod on a Windows platform, all you need according to Engadget is :
1. a dvd to avi ripper program (we used the free DVDx 2.3 from sourceforge)
2. an avi to mov (quicktime) program (we used the trial version of Xilisoft Video Converter)
3. the new […]
A snippet of Windows news (speculation?) over at Matt Goyer’s blog yesterday :
“… I was having drinks with Joe Belfiore and Dave Mendlen tonight celebrating the release of Rollup 2 and someone let drop that a Hotmail Media Center app was going to be available next week. Vicious rumor at the Soho 323 club? Or […]
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