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Windows Vista Weblog

August 13th, 2006

OS deathmatch: Leopard vs. Vista

Apple is claiming that Vista copies a lot from Apple’s OS X, we all know that. Last week both Lifehacker and Paul Thurrott wrote a piece about this and explore if Apple isn’t copying too. I’m not in the position to be 100% objective about Vista, but I think both companies have ’stolen’ ideas from […]

By Vincent -- 21 comments

April 23rd, 2006

Critical review of Vista

Paul Thurrott from winsupersite.com has a very good (and critical) article on Vista. In his fifth CTP review he mainly writes about how disappointed he is in the upcoming Windows Vista release. He rambles about everything that is wrong with Vista and the company that’s releasing it. Vista seems to be just an upgraded version […]

By Vincent -- 4 comments

March 10th, 2006

No support for EFI booting

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 […]

By Vincent -- 3 comments