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Watch out business - Vista's after you
News The company on Wednesday released a whitepaper targeted at the many businesses that have chosen to stick with Windows XP instead of moving to Vista. Compared with Windows XP, Vista has had fewer vulnerabilities (45 for Vista versus 56 for XP... [05 Jun 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study An increasing number of them will have Vista at home and Newham does not want to be perceived as equipping service points with old software like XP. Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, launched in January 2007, has had a mixed reaction from... [30 May 2008]
TechNet Webcast: LUA Buglight (Level 400)
White Paper LUA Buglight (version 2.0 currently in the works) is a tool designed to help both developers and IT professionals (system administrators) identify the specific causes of Least-privilege User Account (LUA) bugs in desktop applications running on... [30 May 2008]
Windows exec plugs Vista's "green agenda"
News The objective view is that Vista is being adopted at the same rate, in fact a slightly quicker rate, than XP was adopted," he said. Notably, in January 2007, the UK's Green Party attacked Microsoft and Vista in particular for its use of "more... [27 May 2008]
Vista security under scrutiny, again
News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft In response to claims last week by Austin Wilson, director of Windows client security product management, that statistics collected using Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT... [21 May 2008]
Developers snub Vista for XP
News A survey has found an overwhelming majority of developers writing applications for Windows are ignoring Vista in favour of XP or older versions of the Microsoft operating system. Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft [19 May 2008]
Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics
News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft However, recent research conducted with statistics from over 1.4 million computers within the ThreatFire community has shown that Windows Vista is more susceptible to malware than the eight... [16 May 2008]
Gov't department readies for Vista rollout
News The Vista upgrade is part of a regular technical refresh of Defra systems and was chosen over XP to avoid another near term upgrade, saving time and resources. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out... [15 May 2008]
Training Center Performs Skills Assessment, Saves Healthcare Provider U.S.$75,000
White Paper In preparation for a large-scale desktop migration to the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system, a large healthcare provider wanted to ensure that its help-desk personnel had the knowledge necessary to resolve potential user questions... [15 May 2008]
XP SP3 starts endless reboot for some AMD PCs
News Microsoft said in a statement: "While the root cause of this issue is complex, it results from OEMs improperly placing a Windows XP image created for an Intel-based computer onto machines with non-Intel chipsets. [14 May 2008]
Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades
News Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned. [12 May 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill
Comment I thought of this phrase recently when my Windows XP machine died. And in the particular case of Microsoft, Fast's £1m per year is dwarfed by the fines totalling €1.68m imposed on Microsoft because EU judges determined that the company had... [07 May 2008]
Microsoft - halted Vista, XP updates resumed
News A week ago, Microsoft delayed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a problem that could lead to data loss when running the XP update in conjunction with its Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System program. [07 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up Technically, the computers will be Vista Business or Vista Ultimate machines that have been factory downgraded to XP at the customer's request. Faced with a 30 June deadline to stop shipping computers with Windows XP, the world's PC makers are... [02 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment I don't know why Microsoft don't do the blatantly obvious thing, allow downgrade rights on any Windows Vista to XP. Microsoft gets the Vista sales they want, Joe Public gets what they want with XP. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this... [01 May 2008]
