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RSS VistaVista beta goes public
News After months of limited testing, Microsoft late on Wednesday made a beta version of Windows Vista publicly available for download. The company said in a statement: "Microsoft today kicked off the Windows... [08 Jun 2006]
Vista: 'Expect hackers to find holes'
News Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted 90 per cent of current malware will run on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista. Although at the moment Vista appears to be more secure... [12 Dec 2006]
Vista Performance Brief: Optimizing Graphics Performance
White Paper To deliver its powerful and appealing new desktop, Vista utilizes a completely new display driver model called WDDM. Written on top of DirectX instead of GDI (as in previous versions of Windows did)... [01 Sep 2009]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, launched in January 2007, has had a mixed reaction from pundits and potential customers and there is still a strong inclination among the company's user base to cling on to... [30 May 2008]
Vista not grabbing businesses... yet
News Businesses feel a move to Microsoft's Windows Vista OS isn't worth the effort yet, due to compatibility issues and it offering too few benefits over XP. Almost a year after the businesses version of... [28 Nov 2007]
Vista already on the Redmond patch treadmill
News While Microsoft has touted Windows Vista as its most secure client operating system yet, the unfinished product is already getting regular security fixes. Vista, slated to be broadly available in... [18 Aug 2006]
Vista to pack anti-piracy punch
News Windows Vista will have new anti-piracy technology that locks people out their PCs if the operating system isn't activated within 30 days after installation. If Vista is not activated with a legitimate... [05 Oct 2006]
Vista to get no-frills Windows' features
News Microsoft is sprinkling some features from Windows XP Starter Edition into Windows Vista, the next generation of its operating system. The software maker plans to take the video help feature in XP Starter, which is... [09 Oct 2006]
Vista Deployment Using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment
White Paper This paper discusses how to deploy Vista, Microsoft's newest operating system, using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provisions operating systems and... [31 Oct 2007]
Vista: Can Service Pack 1 spur adoption?
News The first Vista service pack may serve dual purposes for Microsoft: fixing the operating system's rough edges while simultaneously indicating that it's ready for mass adoption. Also, the company urged businesses not to... [04 Sep 2007]
Vista SP1 coming early next year
News After months of silence, Microsoft finally coughed up details about its plans for the first update to Windows Vista, saying the service pack will arrive in the first quarter of next year. In the next few weeks, Microsoft... [30 Aug 2007]
Vista unravels the Da Vinci codex
News Bill Gates, Leonardo da Vinci and even pop darlings The Feeling all made an appearance at the UK launch of Microsoft's long-awaited Vista operating system. Vista was first made available to business... [30 Jan 2007]
Vista failing to bring in business
News Windows Vista is failing to attract business users, with sales of PCs preloaded with the corporate version of Microsoft's latest OS slowing. Sales of PCs pre-installed with Vista Business accounted for... [03 Oct 2007]
Vista - businesses not convinced
News Almost a year on from the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista, only 13 per cent of companies say they expect to move all desktops to the OS, according to a survey released this week. A survey of 961 independently... [26 Nov 2007]
Vista security under scrutiny, again
News Security vendor PC Tools has released more research to back up its claim that Vista is far from immune to infection. In an attempt to reinforce its claim that Vista is less secure than Windows 2000, PC... [21 May 2008]
