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Archive for February 2007

February 28th, 2007

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New Parallels Desktop Opens Door to Vista (Tech News World)
SecurStar Releases New Versions of Its Encryption Solutions With Windows Vista Compatibility (Sys Con)
The puzzling story of why Microsoft prevents some Vista upgrades (Hindu)
Analyst: Windows Vista UI is step back in Microsoft’s pursuit of Apple’s Mac OS X (MAC Daily News)
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February 27th, 2007

Vulnerability in IE7 endangers Credit Card Numbers, Passwords and SSS

A recent flow was found in IE7 on Windows Vista where hackers could fraudulently take credit card numbers, passwords, and social security numbers.
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February 27th, 2007

Western Digital Hard Disks are the Best for Windows Vista

According to PRNewsWire Windows(R) Vista(TM) runs optimally on WD Caviar(R) SE16 and WD Raptor(R) Models.
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February 25th, 2007

Windows Vista Demo Readiness Toolkit

Microsoft has released their Demo Readiness Toolkit (DRT which contains sample documents, demo files, sample applications, shortcuts, etc. which gives you the ease of presenting your custom applications running on Windows Vista.
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February 25th, 2007

Bill Gates Says Windows Vista is Well Received

Bill Gates told reporters at an Ottawa news conference that Windows Vista is well received. She points out that PC sales went up as customers came in wanting to buy new hardware to get their hands on Windows Vista.
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February 25th, 2007

Tools for Deployment and Management of Windows Vista

A new set of tools have been released by Microsoft to help in the deployment and management of Windows Vista.
These tools are as follows:
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February 25th, 2007

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 1.0

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 1.0 is a tool launched by Microsoft which helps organizations decide about desktop deployment and migration to Windows Vista. The tool assess PCs on a network and comes up with a detailed report of their hardware and device compatibility.
The tool can be found here.
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February 25th, 2007

Virtual PC 2007 for Windows Vista

VPC 2004 doesn’t work well with Windows Vista and users would not be able to enjoy running multiple environments on one machine.
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February 25th, 2007

Optimistic Goals of Ben Fathi doesn’t Sell

PCWorld reports that former head of Microsoft’s security group Ben Fathi, now chief of development in Windows core operating system, says that the number of vulnerabilities in Windows Vista would be half of Windows XP.
Even though Microsoft boasts a lot about the security technology of Windows Vista, the complexity of the operating system would still […]

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February 24th, 2007

Save £95 per Windows Vista Copy

PCAdvisor has this nice trick to save £95 off your Windows Vista license.
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February 24th, 2007

Windows Vista Theme for SmartPhone

JGUI professionals has created a Windows Vista theme for mobile devices. You can download them here.

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February 24th, 2007

Academy Awards to have Microsoft Windows Vista Ads

Windows Vista is no longer exclusive to geeks and techs. Microsoft has made Windows Vista into a multimedia powerhouse for the savvy user.
As such, it makes sense to air Windows Vista during the Academy Awards.
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February 24th, 2007

Guess which Applications are Excluded from Microsoft’s 800 Vista Compatible Apps

IBM, Adobe Systems, Symantec and Apple are companies whose applications are notably missing from the list of compatible Apps published by Microsoft (found here).
Microsoft is on the defensive and says the list of applications will continuously grow which might also mean including applications from these companies.
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February 24th, 2007

Only Higher Editions of Vista is Allowed for MAC Users

My friend is going to buy a MAC in a few days time and he is thrilled he can use Windows Vista in MAC using virtualization.
Good for him and he must not forget he needs to buy the Business or Ultimate package to be allowed to do so. Microsoft has specifically placed in their license […]

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February 20th, 2007

Free Deployment Tools for Windows Vista has been Released

Microsoft has just released free different versions of their deployment tools namely: Microsoft® Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007, the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.0, Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 1.0, the Volume Activation Management Tool, the Key Management Service for Windows Server® 2003 and Virtual PC 2007.
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February 20th, 2007

Steve Ballmer Wants Analysts to Take it Easy

The heat of the Windows Vista has been put aside and now analysts are making aggresive forecasts in the revenue growth of Microsoft anchored on their latest operating system.
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February 14th, 2007

Microsoft Don’t Want the Press to Talk About the Next Version of Windows

Microsoft in response to the comments made by Ben Fathi (found here) say they don’t want the media to focus on the next version (code named Vienna) and just think about the current version.
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February 14th, 2007

Windows Vista 2009

Microsoft corporate vice-president of development Ben Fathi said the next version of Windows would be released in the latter part of 2009.
The major improvements would revolve around things they should have included in Windows Vista Release this 2007 namely: file system WinFS, UEFI Bios replacement, advanced security features.
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February 14th, 2007

Windows Vista Patch Released

Microsoft Bulletin reports that 11 of the 20 patches are critical which is the highest Microsoft security rating.
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February 14th, 2007

Is Windows Vista Basic Edition Really Useless?

I have previously written about the different Windows Vista Editions and the lowest one you could buy is the basic edition which according to Lance Ulanoff of PCMag is pointless.
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