The Europeans are keeping a close eye on Microsoft. The EU Commission spokesman Jonathan Toddhas warned Microsoft that European sales of its new Vista operating system will be blocked if certain operating system features are included. He said: “We are concerned about the possibility that the next Vista operating system will include various elements which […]
The Vista delay has dissapointed a lot of people, including Microsoft employees. Postings on a Microsoft blog by company staffers over the past week reveal dismay, anger, and even demands for high-level resignations. This all because of the company’s delays of Vista consumer releases and Office desktop productivity suite. The Mini-Microsoft blog includes a number […]
Via neowin I read that Windows Vista build 5342 is available since friday, but only for MSDN subscribers. The new build is released to the testers on the “connect” site. There are some screenshots of this new build on x64bit.net, be sure to check that out! With this new build there also seems to be […]
The past couple of days Slashdot and others have linked to an article on Australian’s smarthouse.com.au. It states that up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of MS Vista has to be rewritten. Offcourse this is bull and Scoble confirms it’s Totally 100% False. So you know;)
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OMG, it’s not gonna be October, not November and not December… It’s gonna be January 2007! Here’s the official pressrelease confirming that Windows Vista is on target to go into broad consumer beta in the second quarter of 2006. Business availability will be in November 2006 and broad consumer availability in January 2007.
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IEBlog writes: Internet Explorer (IE) build 5335.5 is now available for download at microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/. This build is for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and shows the current state of IE7!
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More release-rumours about the launch of Windows Vista; the mad marketers from Microsoft would be planning a joint launch later this year for both Vista and Office 2007! This is what David Flynn reports in Australian IT (via hunterstrat.com):
When Microsoft launches Windows Vista on an as-yet-unnamed date towards the end of this year, it is […]
Everybody keeps guessing the Vista release-date (including me), last time I checked Microsoft would release Vista in the week of 2 October. A while back I wrote about a possible releasedate on December 1st and now it looks like its gonna be November… So we now have covered the last three months of 2006, anybody […]
We already know some of the cool new RSS features in Vista, and we know that Microsoft wil use the standard RSS icon for IE7. Today I found some more info about RSS and Vista; Niall Kennedy has a post about the Windows RSS Platform and writes about the feed exposure to all Windows applications […]
Thelazyadmin.com has a great article on Memory Management: Mythbusting Windows Vista! He writes about the fact that everyday more and more information is released, but a lot of this information is misunderstood and as a result a myth has risen on Vista. The post is mainly about Task Manager and Memory Management, which is clearly […]
TechRepublic has an interesting review of the Windows Vista Virtual Folders: “Virtual Folders is one component of Vista’s new information visualization, organization, and search features. It is built right into the operating system and is designed to relieve us of some types of data management nightmares. And, even at the beta stage, Virtual Folders is […]
Bad news for Apple-lovers today; Microsoft revealed that it will not support EFI booting for Windows Vista. This will be a shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows Vista and OS X (Intel Macs only support booting via EFI). Microsoft’s development manager, Andrew Ritz, also […]
Looks like IBM is switching to Linux destops in Germany. During a presentation on IBM’s involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek - head of open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM, made a very interesting statement:
“Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October […]
Oh my god, it looks like Microsoft is toying with a “Step User Interface”. This was demo’ed at TechFest last week. It’s like Dance Dance Revolution meets Windows Explorer. I hope this one never makes it to the store shelves! But that’s no concern to Microsoft, which spends billions of dollars a e year researching […]
One of the new features of Windows Vista will be Voice Recognition. Technet.com has a short demonstration on how to set it up and use it. The demonstration was recorded using build 5270 (Beta 2) of Windows Vista. Watch the podcast and see it for yourself!
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ActiveWin has a very complete review of CTP build 5308. The article has 14(!) parts where Andre discusses the Installation, start-up, configuration, side-bar, photo gallery, dvd maker, defender, calender, mail, ie7 and security! Very nice work!
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After the speculation of Vista getting a backdoor, it now seems that a company representative said in a statement sent via e-mail: “Microsoft has not and will not put ‘backdoors’ into Windows“. Next to that Niels Ferguson, a developer and cryptographer at Microsoft, wrote on a corporate blog: “The suggestion is that we are working […]
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