Vista Review

I’ve read quite a few Windows articles this week, and there is definitely a buzz about Windows 7 in the air. It just seems like nobody knows what is going on. This post Windows 7: A New Vista or a New Operating System lists some features of Windows 7 that sound pretty cool. The new [...]

Something I had forgotten since my Windows Vista journey started (and this blog started) 2 years ago was the fact that “Windows Vista Ultimate” was supposed to contain “elite cutting edge extras” that you couldn’t get in the lesser versions. According to this post on Tom’s Hardware one was released a year ago, and this [...]

In Windows 7 - will Microsoft pry open your wallet and start taking out cash on a regular basis?? I’m not so sure….
In my last post I talked about the fact that Microsoft is going to try and release the next version of Windows (Windows 7) as early as June 2009. Then today I read [...]

I’m wondering how many people out there (on average) have updated their Vista laptops and desktops to SP1 not that it’s been available quite awhile. I have to say - I haven’t updated my laptop yet at all, especially since I read that (despite the initial hype) machines aren’t running faster at all post-upgrade, they’re [...]

WTF is going on Microsoft? In my last post I talked about “Vista’s Second Life, and how the confirmed release date of Windows 7 is Jan 2010. OEM’s can sell XP Professional until Jan 2009, so that leaves people screwed for about a year if they buy a new PC - doesn’t it?
Well, just a [...]

Ask the Admin had the pic above, and you know come to think of it - I have seen this Vista error (”you do not have permission to view the current permission settings”). How redundant is this? It’s incredibly stupid, I mean this isn’t even “permissions” in the normal sense like read and write. It’s [...]

Did Microsoft lie about “Vista Capable” machines being able to upgrade from XP?
When I was reading this article today in Bit-Tech I suddenly remembered the problems that people had with their “Vista Capable” systems when Vista first came out. Apparently most of those systems were barely capable of running “Vista Basic” and most didn’t hard [...]

If you’re looking to remove optional components of Vista that you might not need, “the How-To geek” can tell you how to get that done. Actually, I was surprised by not only how easy it was, but by how many crazy unnecessary things were running all over the place.
Indexing Service, IIS, .NET framework, UNIX Subsystem, [...]

PC World has reported that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or SP1 will be officially available to everyone on February 15th, 2008! Or will it? That date has been reported by Taiwanese news agency, and some sources close to Microsoft say that’s a “target date”, but Microsoft won’t comment. Some believe that SP1 will bring [...]

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or SP1 is now available to the general public (Release Candidate 1 or RC1), and Microsoft has prepared a 17 page document describing the changes that Vista SP1 will include. Looks like one of the biggest bug fixed we can look forward to is support for “exFAT” which will greatly [...]

When I read this article today about “Vista won’t be any faster, it got me thinking. You now, I have a dual-core processor laptop with 2GB of ram. It really got me thinking, 2GB of ram is more than I’ve ever had on any computer I’ve ever owned. I work on PC’s day and night, [...]

Engadget recently put out a huge Vista vs. Leopard Showdown review in score card format. You should check it out - it’s a good real. But, if you’re interested in Windows Vista, but also in Mac’s Leopard OS, let me synopsize what I think you should know in a nutshell.

Leopard has a better User Interface, [...]

Windows Vista is getting to be the strangest version of Windows I have ever used.  I’ve had my Toshiba Satellite laptop for about 11 months now, and as you know it came installed with Vista on it from the factory.  The weird thing is I can’t remember ever telling it to automatically download and install [...]

Here’s an interesting article over at ExtremeTech about The Five Broken Promises of Windows Vista. Are you using Windows Vista? Do you feel it’s performed to your expectations based on what Microsoft promised before it came out? I sure don’t. And neither does Loyd Case. He believe that 5 key things MS promised are not [...]

I was doing a little web surfing, and came across this lovely post over at the Stern Fan Network Forums…

I HATE WINDOWS VISTA, I HATE MY SONY VAIO AND WILL NEVER SHOP AT BEST BUY AGAIN
For years I’ve worked on SFN from a brick of a laptop. It’s a 10lb 17″ widescreen monster that I’ve [...]

So the other day I needed to create a DVD on my new Windows Vista installed Toshiba laptop. I had taken some video with my awesome new Panasonic Lumix FZ7 digital camera, and I wanted to publish it to a DVD to watch on my television. My Lumix FZ7 camera takes great video, but it’s [...]

In Windows Vista, the UAC is “User Access Control”. This is basically where you can have fine grained control (finally) over what users can do when they are logged into your PC. What you get to is based on your access priveleges, and part of UAC is the basis for those hilarious Mac vs. PC [...]

So it turns out that one of the most popular software programs on the planet “iTunes” is having multiple conflicts with Microsoft Windows Vista.? For the last month Apple had a warning against upgrading to Vista on it’s web site, but this week it changed to an update stating that “itunes is recommended for use [...]

There’s a lot of discussion about Digital Rights Managment or DRM in windows Vista.? I just came accross this article over at ZDNet that discusses whether or not it’s limiting? (drm).? So the author has been running Vista for over a week, and reports that he’s able to view and play both DRM’d and non-DRM’d [...]

According to Betanews there are only 104 applications certified to run on Windows Vista. That’s according to this article on the Microsoft web site as of March 2, 2007.
The companies listed don’t even include McAfee, Symantec, or Adobe (yet), and Microsoft is even offering up to $1,000 to assist companies in getting their software certified. [...]