Tag: Vista
The honeymoon is over: Intel snubs Microsoft's Windows Vista as XP sales are officially ended
Although chip-maker Intel has been totally BFF with Microsoft for like years and years, their relationship now seems to be on very rocky ground. An anonymous insider from Intel revealed last week that the company has decided not to upgrade the computers for its 80,000 strong work force to Windows Vista. Not ever.
Asus "Bamboo" EcoBook laptop now just slightly laminated on the inside
Remember this thing? That was the mock-up. The dream. The reality, as ever, is much more disappointing than the original crazed fantasy. The final Asus U6 now just comes with a small strip of wood surrounding the keyboard and screen, no doubt to stop warping and to help it pass stringent modern fire regulations.
So it’s not really an “eco-friendly” laptop any more. It’s now just a regular notebook with a bit of wood stuck on the front of it. It’s more of a design statement than a planet-saving option…
Next Windows operating system to use multi-touch technology
Speaking at the opening night of Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference in Southern California yesterday, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and fellow exec Steve Ballmer had a few things to share about the next step for the Windows platform. They were restrained when quizzed about the faults in the current OS, Vista, but acknowledged that in hindsight something could have been done better…
Microsoft scrambles to counter the rise of OpenSource Linux on ULPCs
It seems that Asus’ Eee PC masterstroke took more than rival laptop manufacturers by surprise. Microsoft has been caught off guard by the sudden popularity of the cheap, diminutive devices and doesn’t like the fact that OpenSource Linux Operating Systems are benefiting the most from it…
OPINION: Forget Vista, XP and Linux – Firefox is now my #1 operating system
I had some sort of religious dawn last week. Some kind of personal discovery, a moment of clarity, if you will. I used a Mac – and it was fine!
Now, I pretty much hate Macs. I’ve only ever used old Macs, rubbish ones from the distant past that are unable to cope with newer operating systems. So I associate Macs with PAIN.
But I just used one and it was fine. Because the only thing I use is Firefox…
YouTube Hits: Microsoft internal video shames even the Zune tattoo guy
Now, I love Microsoft probably more than the average tech-fan, and some may even call me a fangirl. But after watch the video above, I’m quite ashamed to be using a Vista laptop right now.
MSFT, you should’ve hired this guy to make your internal Springsteen-parody video…
Windows 7 arriving "sometime in the next year" says Gates, "The hell it is" says the rest of Microsoft
A slightly off-hand comment from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates managed to set the blogosphere alight with a wave of excited speculation over the weekend. Answering a question about Vista, Gates told the audience at the annual meeting in Miami of the Inter-American Development Bank on Friday:
“Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version [of Windows].”…
Vista SP1 second to fall in hacking contest
The annual CanSecWest security conference hacking contest ‘PWN2OWN’ caused a bit of a stir last week when a suspected Safari browser exploit allowed a MacBook Air to be hacked in just two minutes. It took a fair bit longer, but on Friday Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 running on a Fujitsu U810 finally fell to the efforts of Shane Macaulay, a consultant with Security Objectives…
Windows 7 coming in 2010… probably
According to reports, Microsoft has confirmed that its next version of Windows will be available in 2010.
Windows 7 will succeed Windows Vista, with Microsoft explaining that it had always scheduled its next operating system launch for three years after Vista was launched to consumers. That was January last year…
Microsoft unveils Vista-inspired Wireless Laser Desktop 7000
Clearly the chaps at Microsoft must be using a different version of Vista to me, because right now the only keyboard design Vista is inspiring me to make is one that I can twat them over the head with. New Windows meant new law suits fancy functions which I’ll begrudgingly admit that while being a massive drain on the system do look rather snazzy.
Naturally you’ll want a keyboard and mouse that complement this sleek design and so Microsoft is providing the goods with the latest Wireless Laser Desktop 7000. The keyboard part is an ultrathin Comfort Curve design (read: the keys are aligned in a sort of bend). It’s a 2.4GHz wireless model and comes with the already available 7000 wireless rechargeable mouse.
