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Vista off-limits, say two US gov agencies

News Windows Vista has been banned by the US Department of Transportation (DoT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Nist). A Nist spokesman said: "We are temporarily not permitting computers with the Vista operating system to be...

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[14 Mar 2007]

Photos: <strong>Vista</strong> behind the scenes

Photos: Vista behind the scenes

Photo A display in Building 3 - the home of the Windows marketing team - highlights Windows Vista. Workers gather inside the "shiproom", to make sure that there is nothing that should stand in the way of Vista's release.

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[09 Nov 2006]

Vista will safeguard HD disposal, says Microsoft

News Microsoft claims businesses planning to use Vista together with its Bitlocker hard drive encryption technology will have an easy and safe way to dispose of their hard disks. The software giant said on Tuesday Vista will be so secure businesses will...

Tags: bitlocker, windows vista, vista, encryption

[26 Apr 2006]

Vista Makes Digital Audio Workstation Sing

whitepaper Cakewalk, a leader in music creation software for Windows, saw opportunities from supporting new features in Windows Vista. By supporting WaveRT drivers, Cakewalk was able to provide much lower audio latencies when running processor intensive...

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[17 Jan 2008]

Vista 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 Vista Customer Preview Program (CPP...

Tags: windows vista, vista, beta, microsoft

[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 than previous Windows operating systems...

Tags: windows vista, vista, kaspersky labs, hackers

[12 Dec 2006]

CIO Essentials: Vista, BBC iPlayer, BlackBerrys and spam

News Five questions to ask before moving to Vista All appear to follow from the basic assumption that moving to Vista is inevitable - that it is simply a matter of time. The very first of those five questions is does your business need Vista yet?

Tags: blackberry, iplayer, spam, vista

[24 Jul 2007]

Vista SP1 problems? Relax, Microsoft will offer some help

News Vista users encountering problems when they upgrade to Service Pack 1 can relax: Microsoft is giving free support to those installing the service pack. Vista: all the coverage. Windows Vista SP1 finally a go

Tags: microsoft, vista, sp1, windows vista

[25 Mar 2008]

Vista 'to create IT jobs bonanza'

News A Microsoft-commissioned study estimates Windows Vista could create 100,000 new IT-related jobs in the US. The study, which was performed by IDC, also estimates that for every dollar of Vista-related revenue Microsoft takes in next year, $18 will...

Tags: windows vista, vista, microsoft

[11 Dec 2006]

Vista: Businesses rethinking quick switch

News Businesses that had been thinking of a quick move to Windows Vista may be rethinking their plans, according to a new study by Forrester Research. Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray said in a report: "IT managers are finding themselves pulling back...

Tags: upgrade, windows, microsoft, vista

[16 Aug 2007]

Dear silicon.com... data guardians, not so "killer" mobile apps, Vista on sale…

Comment Vista on sale 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. My response: "That doesn't really say much for Vista.

Tags: mobile, data, vista, views

[06 Mar 2008]

Vista and Office 2007 Deployment Planning

whitepaper The presenter of this webcast presents the vision and roadmap for deployment of both Office 2007 and Vista with the aim to answer the question - Why would the user consider deploying Windows Vista and Office 2007?

Tags: deployment, vista, windows vista, presenter

[16 Feb 2007]

Vista release date: 30 November 2006

News The official release of Windows Vista will be 30 November 2006 to business customers only, quashing rumours of a December release. Microsoft Office System, Windows Vista and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 will become broadly available to business...

Tags: microsoft windows, windows, bill gates, christmas

[03 Nov 2006]

Vista Case Study: AIRCOACH

whitepaper The WS2 Vista server provides constant connectivity between AirCoach base and its fleet of coaches. AirCoach Limited is Ireland's leading public coach/bus company, transporting hundreds of thousands of passengers between Dublin Airport and Dublin...

Tags: gsm, vehicle, dublin, improving

[22 Mar 2005]

Vista: Companies slow on the uptake - poll

News The sound of popping champagne corks may still be reverberating in Steve Ballmer's ears, after last week's Vista launch bash, but Microsoft shouldn't start celebrating sending the latest iteration of Windows into the corporate sphere too quickly.

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[06 Dec 2006]

Vista: Just how many copies have been sold?

News Microsoft has declined to confirm statistics from its chief operating officer on the number of copies of Windows Vista it has sold, throwing into confusion how successful the operating system has been.

Tags: windows, microsoft, vista

[31 Jul 2007]

ViSTA: The Vivace Scaleable Network Architecture - Scaling Multi-Service IP Networks to New Dimensions

whitepaper This white paper explores the history of switch fabric designs, summarizes different design approachs and characteristics, and presents the Vivace ViSTA Switch Fabric architecture.

Tags: switching, switch, fabric, vista

[24 Feb 2004]

Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...

Comment Vista outrage! Vista: Users do want it, apparently. After using Vista Ultimate for four months, I got fed up with the slow and unstable OS, plus the dusty scanner and webcam staring accusingly at me, unused because of no driver support.

Tags: government, home office, mobiles, apple

[01 Nov 2007]

Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...

News Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users' Another big launch that hasn't quite gone to plan is Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system which continues to make slow progress.silicon...

Tags: jobs, vista, iphone, heathrow

[28 Apr 2008]

Vista: Security industry ready for retail launch

News All major security software makers, as well as many smaller ones, will have products available for Vista when the operating system is launched to consumers on 30 January, Microsoft said. That's a different story from last November, when Vista was...

Tags: windows vista, vista, security

[18 Jan 2007]

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