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 [...]
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I’ve been spending more time using Vista and Internet Explorer. I’m still using default settings, at least the security related ones. While browsing to Arstechnica.com the screen went gray and the following popup appeared:
Now I think UAC is a good thing so I don’t want to just slam it. I’m guessing this was generated because [...]
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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 [...]
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Microsoft has published a list of software that has problems with Windows Vista SP1. AntiVirus and security software makes up a big portion of the list. Most of the apps already have a solution of simply (hopefully simple that is) updating to the the latest version.
While it doesn’t help Vista’s reputation to have more incompatibilities [...]
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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 [...]
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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% [?]
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