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One year on: XP still outshining Vista
News New tests have revealed XP with the beta SP3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with the newer OS' long-awaited SP1. Gates: Vista selling faster than XP ¦ Vista, both with and without SP1, performed more than two times slower than XP with... [28 Nov 2007]
Microsoft refreshes Vista SP1
News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. One year on: XP still outshining Vista Gates: Vista selling faster than XP Microsoft still bullish about Windows Vista [14 Jan 2008]
Clock is ticking on Windows XP
News The low-end Windows XP Starter Edition will continue to be available in emerging markets until 30 June 2010. Not only does the date mark the departure of Bill Gates but another epoch is also really coming to an end - that of Windows XP. [16 Jun 2008]
Microsoft Windows 'collapsing' under own weight
News Silver said he recommends IT executives do use Vista - but on an attrition basis, so that, as PCs with Windows XP are retired, they are replaced with PCs running Vista. Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft [11 Apr 2008]
First Vista service pack planned
News Understandably, the company has not finalised what it will deliver in the first service pack, though the software maker outlined an update that is more similar to Windows XP Service Pack 1 and other minor updates than to Windows XP Service Pack 2... [24 Jan 2007]
Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics
News 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-year-old Windows 2000 operating system, and only 37... [16 May 2008]
Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace
News And according to research by Forrester Research, most upgrades were from users of Windows 2000 - which lost around six per cent of users - rather than XP, which Vista is intended to replace. Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft [02 Apr 2008]
Microsoft slashes Windows Vista price tag
News Initially pitched as a high-end version above Windows XP Pro, Microsoft eventually lowered the price to not much higher than Windows XP Home and saw it become the dominant consumer version. Brooks also pointed to the increase in sales Microsoft saw... [29 Feb 2008]
Windows worm holes plugged
News Depending on configuration, it could also be used against a computer with Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003, Microsoft said in its advisory. This security hole is also found in Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP1. [12 Oct 2005]
Ballmer: Microsoft says the future's green
News Microsoft cited a study by the UK's PC Pro Labs, which found that for a company with 200 PCs, running Windows Vista on the machines produced 45 tons fewer of carbon per year than running XP. The report claimed at Windows XP's launch, for example... [06 Mar 2008]
Vista SP1 coming early next year
News In the next few weeks, Microsoft will start private testing of a beta of Service Pack 1 for Vista as well as a third service pack for Windows XP. By way of comparison, Windows XP - the whole thing - shipped on a CD, which only holds about three... [30 Aug 2007]
Vista: Businesses rethinking quick switch
News Last September, Brad Goldberg, general manager for Windows Client product management, predicted Vista would be put in use by twice as many businesses in the first year as Windows XP was in the 12 months following its October 2001 release. [16 Aug 2007]
Vista: Can Service Pack 1 spur adoption?
News Gillen said it is good to see Microsoft also commit to a timetable for Windows XP Service Pack 3, which is due out in the first half of next year. Microsoft has said it expects businesses to move to Vista at twice the rate that they did with XP... [04 Sep 2007]
Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft
News Microsoft said it's seeing piracy rates for Windows Vista that are half those of Windows XP. The decline in piracy rates is largely due to the fact Vista is much tougher to fake than XP. Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. [04 Dec 2007]
Microsoft: 'These programs won't work after Vista SP1…'
News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft One year on: XP still outshining Vista Microsoft still bullish about Windows Vista The company said: "Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains many security, reliability and feature... [21 Feb 2008]
