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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.08
Round-Up Earlier this month the company launched the "Assurance" campaign, offering small businesses free Vista-related technical support, a move that will add millions of dollars to Microsoft's telephone support costs. [25 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Tonight, for example, I've just wasted an hour trying to install a tablet driver for my daughter's PC under Microsoft Vista, an OS I resent with a passion normally reserved for Hazel Blears. On each occasion, the reason appeared to involve known... [17 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment I don't want Vista but I suspect eventually I will have to give in to pressure from Microsoft. Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this week, the OFT and Kangaroo and phones on planes - love them or loathe them? [03 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up Wave goodbye to Windows XP and say hello to Vista. Of course, you can still run XP on new PCs you just need to buy Vista and downgrade it. Another question is - how Microsoft will replace its iconic, departing leader? [27 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment I lament the passing of XP, having recently bought a Vista equipped laptop, I wish Microsoft would listen to its customer base and merely continue to improve XP. First thing on readers' hit-lists this month was the government plan for prisoners to... [19 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment The fact that Vista is being pushed so hard by Microsoft speaks volumes. Vista upgrade tester on my PC says that there are 17 pieces of my current software which will not run with Vista. Vista - ready for business? [12 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.05.08
Round-Up The software giant, while still pushing Vista at disinterested consumers and corporates, has been talking up the next version of Windows, the imaginatively titled Windows 7. Vista was panned by many because its system requirements were so onerous... [30 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up And of course, Microsoft is happy because Vista sales are up. Customers are happy because they can continue to buy computers that don't run Vista. The way it works is thus: by taking advantage of the "downgrade rights" offered as part of the... [02 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Microsoft gets the Vista sales they want, Joe Public gets what they want with XP. I don't know why Microsoft don't do the blatantly obvious thing, allow downgrade rights on any Windows Vista to XP. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this... [01 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up Then take the word of the Microsoft product manager in charge of implementing Vista's User Account Control (UAC) feature. Cross was the group program manager for UAC, which, when activated, requires people to run Vista in standard user mode rather... [18 Apr 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment Echoing the cool response by businesses to its launch, Microsoft's Windows Vista topped the list of most-hyped technologies in 2007 by a clear distance - as it did the year before - followed by utility computing, the iPhone and SOA. [26 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up In related news, Microsoft this week dropped the price of the various blends of Vista by a roughly 25 per cent. In response to the disclosure of the emails a harried-looking Microsoft PR officer offered the opinion that the executives had raised... [07 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... data guardians, not so "killer" mobile apps, Vista on sale…
Comment Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag As the bloke in PC World told me - "Vista is the best operating system that Microsoft have ever produced. Vista on sale My response: "That doesn't really say much for Vista. [06 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up A statement from Microsoft said, apparently without irony: "Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains many security, reliability and feature updates for Windows Vista. Microsoft has stopped automatically distributing a pre-requisite piece of... [22 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment Microsoft seems intent on aggravating its customer base over this XP/Vista issue. Vista woes Vista-XP downgrade software launched The reality is that a lot of existing software people have will not run on Vista. [07 Feb 2008]
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