Actually, it’s not as dramatic as the headline suggests. I’m still primarily a Mac user and my only Windows usage is in a virtual machine. I do very little in Windows (outside of my day job). There’s a couple Windows apps I like - AnyDVD and Windows Live Writer - and I also use [...]
Popularity: 4% [?]
While Vista isn’t new on the Quest I did add a new flavor, Windows Vista Home Premium. At $100 less than Vista Ultimate it seems to be the version to get. There are only a things Ultimate provides over Home Premium including Windows Complete Backup & Restore, Windows Fax and Scan, and Bitlocker disk [...]
Popularity: 16% [?]
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing. The roll-out to end-users will begin in mid-March although not everyone will see it then. Microsoft has identified some drivers that work fine in the gold release of Vista but do not work with SP1. So if Microsoft detects those drivers on your PC you [...]
Popularity: 8% [?]
Microsoft released a “refresh” to the Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate. I’ve been running the original release candidate in a VMware virtual machine on my MacBook. They released the update back on January 11th but I didn’t get around to starting the upgrade for another week. The update isn’t automatic, even with the original [...]
Popularity: 8% [?]
Against my better judgement I decided to installed Windows Vista SP1 RC1 on my VMware Fusion instance of Vista Ultimate. I say against my better judgement because I might have to uninstall before installing the final release as has been the case with earlier betas and release candidates from Microsoft. Also, according the Microsoft [...]
Popularity: 11% [?]
After my (eventually) successful Ubuntu install on Parallels I decided to try and continue my streak and install Vista. I had licenses for Ultimate and Business. Parallels doesn’t support the 3D Graphics needed for the Aero interface and Bitlocker disk encryption isn’t supported in a virtual environment so I won’t be able to see these [...]
Popularity: 15% [?]
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