Vista Review

Well, to everyone that was waiting for SP1 to come out - guess what, the “official release” that was initially posted on the web was full of errors that made machines reboot and reboot and reboot and reboot! And now they’re saying that it’s 40% slower than XP!
In other Vista news this week, turns out [...]

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 [...]

Well, according to this PC World article, once you get Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or SP1 - your PC will be just as slow as the original version of Vista. That kinda sucks, like I wrote in other posts here on Vista Review - this OS was touted as being “snappy, responsive, and fast”, [...]

Microsoft has announced it will disengage the kill switch. You remember the kill switch don’t you? When you have a Windows Vista system you have to validate you have a legal copy with Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA). If you don’t or WGA fails - after a certain period of time Windows Vista activates it’s “Kill [...]

Do you live in or near the Microsoft campus in Mountain View California? If so, take advantage of the Vista SP1 Deployment Team’s “Install Fair” December 8th and 9th, 2007. Take your desktop or laptop (registration in advance required) and they’ll upgrade (trial and error at your expense) your system to “BETA” Vista Service Pack [...]

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 [...]