PC makers: Will ship their machines on time
In the wake of the U.S. Department of Justice's request for a preliminary injunction to stop Microsoft Corp.
In the wake of the U.S. Department of Justice's request for a preliminary injunction to stop Microsoft Corp.
VARs who are trusted by their clients can, for less than the cost of a Vista upgrade, quietly leave Windows, delivering new hardware (and maybe some keen peripherals), charging what they now charge and gaining customer control.
updated: The commercial is on YouTube now. It's embedded below.
Microsoft is making a number of fixes and reliability and performance improvements available across a variety of different flavors of Windows 10 via new Cumulative Updates.
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commentary In a recent interview, Steve Gibson, president of Gibson Research, told me that Microsoft's forthcoming Service Pack 2 for Windows XP should probably be renamed "Security Pack 2." In fact, nearly everyone who has anything to do with IT security seems to agree that SP2 may be the most significant component yet in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative.
As Microsoft rounds the final bend of the winding Windows Vista road, I’m surprised we’ve heard so little about application compatibility. Sure, Jim Allchin, co-president of the Platforms and Services division, recently played up the need for Vista testers to push hard on making sure existing applications are backwards-compatible with Vista.
Any product that Microsoft brings out generates a high level of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). Windows Vista (or Longhorn as it was called before that) has created a greater frenzy of FUD than any other product that I can recall. One myth that just won't seem to go away is that some sort of super PC is needed to run Vista. Garbage!
You can never have enough RAM, your CPU can never be too fast, and your hard drives can't be too big. Of the three though, it's my demand for hard drive space that's been pushed the hardest over the last couple of years. It's great to have bags of RAM and a fast CPU, but that doesn't mean anything if you don't have the free drive space to install and save data to.
Less than 48 hours after announcing that Windows Vista is delayed - again - Microsoft has split the Windows division into eight groups and brought in a new top dog. One Microsoft employee asked the other day, "Where's the freakin' accountability?" This might be the answer.