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News That figure is expected to drop by more than half by next year as businesses leapfrog Windows Vista for Windows 7. Windows Vista, the operating system between XP and Windows 7, unsurprising scored poorly... [09 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News That Windows 7 is more popular than Vista is no surprise - but just how much more love is Microsoft's latest OS getting? According to research by analyst NPD Group, Windows 7's first week after release blew... [06 Nov 2009]
Vista jilted for Windows 7 midway through upgrades
News Some businesses that are partway through upgrading to Windows Vista are asking to swap the OS for Windows 7, according to Microsoft. Speaking at the London launch of Windows 7 today John Curran, the Microsoft exec who... [22 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News Windows 7 has already outsold Vista in the consumer market and you will increasingly have users who have Windows 7 at home ringing tech support asking how they can do the same thing on XP. The poor sales of Windows... [21 Oct 2009]
Windows 7 will be business standard by next year
News When we asked IT professionals to forecast their anticipated new PC deployments within 12 months from now, we discovered that Windows 7 will already be the primary OS deployed, with Windows Vista shrinking from 15 per... [20 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: The five things you need to be thinking about now
News Budget considerations should also be front of mind for CIOs - according to Gartner figures, moving from XP to Windows 7 could cost between $1,035 to $1,930 per user depending on how the rollout is managed, while costs for a migration... [15 Oct 2009]
BAA preparing for Windows 7 take off
News A new operating system is part of this IT investment and Windows 7 has been chosen to replace BAA's generally Windows Vista environment for a number of reasons. The main purpose is usability - it's less clunky [than... [09 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not as fast to boot as Vista
News Windows 7 may not be as fast off the mark in start up as Vista after all. Despite claims that the new OS will be faster to boot up, one software company has reported that in many cases Vista actually... [08 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News Until it shakes off that image, very few IT heads are likely to carry out a wholesale replacement of their Windows XP/Vista operating systems to the Snow Leopard OS," Turning Point's Adebayo said. Apple's desktop market... [02 Oct 2009]
Microsoft: 'Windows 7 XP Mode code is ready to go'
News Microsoft hopes XP Mode will combat any compatibility problems users have when upgrading to the latest version of the operating system - one of the major gripes users had with Microsoft Vista. Microsoft announced... [02 Oct 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News In many cases they can actually be of no demonstrable benefit and a real source of pain, for example Vista. Apple may be reinvigorated with CEO Steve Jobs back at the helm and a new OS just out of the gates, but it looks... [21 Sep 2009]
Five critical Windows updates arrive on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
News McAfee Avert Labs director Dave Marcus said two of the flaws, in particular, relate to serious security vulnerabilities in the networking components of Window Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 that could... [09 Sep 2009]
Windows 7: Unaffected by latest zero-day flaw
News Microsoft issued a formal security advisory late on Tuesday on a reported zero-day flaw in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. However, the software maker also said that the flaw does not affect the final version of... [09 Sep 2009]
Microsoft IIS flaw being exploited in attacks
News Customers should be aware that the Download Center has FTP 7.5 available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. A vulnerability in Microsoft's software for housing websites is now being used for "limited attacks" on... [07 Sep 2009]
Battery life: Windows 7 leaves Vista for dust
News Upgrading a newer machine from Windows Vista to Windows 7 might mean that you get to see the last few minutes of that DVD on a long flight. At a demo on Tuesday, Microsoft showed two identical laptops playing the same... [02 Sep 2009]
