Windows Vista Weblog

June 4th, 2006

500 Hour Test of Vista

Because I don’t have hundreds of hours of spare time, I’m giving mad props to Tom’s Hardware who has made a very thorough walking through of every new feature. In total it concists of 40 pages! It is clear that they have put in some serious effort for reviewing Windows Vista. They spent about 500 […]

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June 1st, 2006

Windows Vista Beta 2 info

Vista has finally hit Beta 2 and Ars Technica gives a very nice indepth visual tour of this Windows Vista version, very nice work! The final conclusion: my overall experience with Vista Beta 2 was a good one. Indeed, it was stable enough to write this article on using the beta of Office 2007. As […]

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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 […]

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March 4th, 2006

Review of Vista build 5308

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!
Tags: explorer, IE7, review, Vista

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January 18th, 2006

New Windows Firewall in Vista

Two weeks ago there was an article on Microsoft Technet about the new Windows Vista firewall which supports both incoming and outgoing traffic. I didnt’t have any time to write about it but now Ed Bott wrote an interesting article where he discusses some of the new features.
With one mouse click, as I’ve shown […]

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