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1. MS confirms Win7 upgrades available in Europe

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 25 August 2009

   ... Home Premium on up to three PCs for a reduced price of £149.99. It will be available in limited quantities, says the company. Current users of Windows Vista will be able to choose to perform an in-place ...

2. CES 2009: Can Steve Ballmer steer Microsoft through a perfect storm?

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 07 January 2009

   ... TV. Partners were highlighted, creating a sense of community in which Microsoft has a commanding role. Without mentioning Vista, Ballmer polished the image of Vista, describing Windows 7 as the “best ...

3. DigiTimes: Vista has hurt the DRAM industry

   (Software/Software Brief)

   Monday, 29 December 2008

   An oversupply looms above the DRAM industry following "overambitious expansion plans to support Windows Vista," Hynix had increased capacity 159%, Inotera by 112%, Elpida by 103% and Samsung by 86% to ...

4. Top 10 people in technology

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Sunday, 28 December 2008

   ... President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Microsoft Would you want to reinvent Windows Vista? Steven Sinofsky has exactly that job. Windows Vista is a considerable failure for Microsoft, ...

5. IBM’s idea to save more than $1276 on a corporate PC

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 04 December 2008

   ... claims that customers can save up to $800 in software licensing cost (Windows, Office), up to $258 in hardware upgrade cost necessary to support Windows Vista and Office 2007, up to $145 per user and year ...

6. Slideshow: Windows 7 walkthrough

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 30 October 2008

   ... knew of Windows 7 before the first presentation this week, there was reason to believe that Windows 7 would be just a rebadged Vista that has the single purpose to buy Microsoft some time to roll out a ...

7. Side by side: Windows 7 vs. OS X Snow Leopard

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 28 October 2008

   ... that this (Vista) Maintenance release may turn into the Vista Microsoft should have offered to begin with. We haven’t seen Snow Leopard yet, but have a good idea how the operating system may offer. Apple ...

8. Windows 7: Clean UI, multi-touch and more speed

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 28 October 2008

     Microsoft today delivered an impressive first demonstration of the Windows 7 feature set and the way how it improves key Vista shortcomings. There was enough information to keep every Windows ...

9. Apple cashes in on iPhone, leaves ‘junk’ to others

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 21 October 2008

   ... Vista blunder and Apple's marketing such as the Mac-vs.-PC ads. Although we do not know how much these ads actually impact Mac sales, they clearly helped to shape a generally negative Vista image. The ...

10. Apple earnings preview

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 July 2008

    ... The company is aggressively expanding its installed user base at the expense of Windows PCs users who are switching due to being disappointed in Vista. Apple's 36 percent annual growth outpaces rest of ...

11. Microsoft: The Windows-based PC is the largest gaming platform in the world

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

      Prior to Microsoft’s “Big Picture” gaming showcase held today in San Francisco, corporate vice president John Schappert reminded us that, despite what you may have heard, the Windows PC is the ...

12. Firefox 3 impressions: Bigger and better in every way

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 June 2008

    ... which is a slight increase over Firefox 2.0.0.14 (5.75 MB), but still half the size of Safari 3.1.1 (18.6 MB in Windows XP/Vista versions) or IE7 (14.7 MB in the Windows XP version). The installation sets ...

13. An inside opinion of the wacky Vista Capable class action lawsuit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 26 March 2008

    ... when this whole Vista Capable drama unfolded. Analyst Opinion - Outside of Boston Legal, this litigation is one of the most twisted ones I can recall.  I have had a fascination with litigation for ...

14. UPDATE: HD 3800: AMD’s Midrange Rebuttal - benchmarks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 15 November 2007

    ... CrossFire will be supported on Vista. Although the driver was not made available to use for launch, AMD stated it will provide this to us in a few days. We have seen this running three times over the past ...

15. Intel fires up upgraded mobile Core 2 Duos

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 May 2007

    ... chipset and promises to run DirectX10 as well as Microsoft’s Windows Vista AeroGlass interface. Intel is putting more and more focus on graphics capability and recently told us that the 965GM should ...

16. LCD panel prices on the increase again

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 20 April 2007

    ... of last year alone. Factors contributing to the changing environment are declines in supply (reduced panel inventories, less fab utilization) while Windows Vista has triggered an increase in demand for ...

17. Vista delivers: U.S. PC retail sales jump 67%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 08 February 2007

    We may not have seen tent cities forming in from of Best Buy in the week before the launch of Windows Vista, but first market reports indicate that the operating system made a huge splash in U.S. retail. ...

18. ATI releases new mainstream card into the gaming arena

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 17 October 2006

    ... expect from an ATI graphics card for Windows Vista-ready computers, for example ATI's fast dynamic branching, high dynamic range rendering in combination with anti-aliasing, 10-bit processing and HDCP ...

19. Microsoft to roll out RTM version of Windows Vista this month - sources

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 10 October 2006

      Microsoft is expected to roll out the RTM (released to manufacturing) version of its upcoming Windows Vista operating system this month, before to officially launch the product to business customers ...

20. Microsoft reduces feature set in pirated copies of Vista

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 October 2006

    Windows Vista will introduce new tools that aim to make pirated versions less attractive and prompt users to activate a legally obtained copy of the OS. Deeply integrated into the core of the software, ...

21. Symantec feeling Vista heat

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 29 September 2006

      Symantec has warned that users of Microsoft's new Vista operating system could find their options for running anti-virus style software seriously reduced. Symantec has warned that users of Microsoft's ...

22. Gateway drops price of 21" widescreen LCD

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 30 June 2006

    ... a high-definition content protection (HDCP) chip - which is required, if users want to watch HD video under Windows Vista. The chip will also allow content owners to set restrictions on how content will ...

23. Nvidia intros dual-GPU card Geforce 7950 GX2

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 June 2006

    ... The new card-and-a-half also marks the debut of Nvidia's ForceWare Release 90 driver, which now features an optional control panel that the company describes as "Vista-inspired," with more descriptive ...

24. Symantec: Microsoft misappropriated trade secrets to build virtualization tools

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 May 2006

    ... and then used the information it gleaned from that code to create storage virtualization device drivers for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and forthcoming versions of Windows Vista and "Longhorn" Server. ...

25. Microsoft delays consumer editions of Windows Vista until January 2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 21 March 2006

    In what Microsoft called an update to its road map, doused with a liberal dose of the term "on track," the company announced today a delay to the release of its consumer editions of Windows Vista, until ...

26. Microsoft releases Beta 2 of IE7, as Gates apologizes for long wait

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 20 March 2006

    ... Vista which you can get and run right now. Along with the launch, Gates tried displaying some of Microsoft's newly discovered humility, with some "Mix '06-ed" results. Las Vegas (NV) - As Microsoft launched ...

27. Hybrid hard drives: Can Samsung and Microsoft invent a new market for 2007?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 17 March 2006

    ... memory market leader, could have a new industry all to itself. But would a mandate from Microsoft for hybrid HDD inclusion in Premium Vista computers help or hurt the company? Seattle (WA) - For the Windows ...

28. Roadmap update: Intel aims for 5 hours of battery time in notebooks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 17 February 2006

    ... Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) in Windows Vista, but also the first mobile chipset to drop PATA support in favor of two additional SATA ports. Santa Rosa will also include an update of its ...

29. Intel chipsets add support for HDMI, TPM and NAND Flash-based BIOS in 2006

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 29 December 2005

    ... to take advantage of High Definition content and in other parts to add components needed for Windows Vista and most likely also for Apple's transition to an Intel platform. Most surprisingly, however, ...

30. HP introduces AMD64-based blade PC, claims possible 50% TCO reduction

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Monday, 07 November 2005

    ... in a company's total cost of ownership. But with Windows Vista's upcoming requirements for both graphics and on-board memory, it will be interesting to see how "fat" HP's thin clients will have to become ...

31. Gateway monitor marks premiere of display-based HD protection scheme

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 06 October 2005

    ... Video Path ensures the display is compatible with future software packages." Some will interpret "future software packages" to include Microsoft Windows Vista, which will support HDCP internally, Microsoft ...