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Windows Vista Weblog

August 13th, 2006

Vista and Gaming

Vista seems to be a great upgrade for gamers. This week IGN had a special (Windows Vista Journal) about what Vista means for hardcore gamers; part 1 and part 2. After that Microsoft posted a free trial of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, this long-awaited version of Flight Simulator is fully optimized for Windows Vista.
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July 25th, 2006

New desktop games from Vista

The collection of games in the Windows Start menu will finally be updated. Gamespot writes about the new DirectX 10 API that promises to give us better-looking and better-playing games. Microsoft will update the traditional collection of casual games (Minesweeper, FreeCell, Solitaire) and will also introduce completely new games for Vista. These games are Chess […]

By Vincent -- 3 comments

October 31st, 2005

Microsoft goes for gamers (again) with Games Advisor

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.
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September 13th, 2005

Basic versions of Windows Vista will lack many features

Microsoft is getting round the massive hardware resources needed to fully implement the Windows Vista vision by reducing the features in the more basic of its seven projected “editions”.
According to Softpedia, the Starter and Home Basic editions won’t have the much-lauded Aero Glass graphics feature. They will present a “Classic” GUI similar to XP. “Other […]

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