Vista Review

Windows 7 is now available – hey have you heard about the “endless reboot”? Well, it turns out that many people have been patiently awaiting Windows 7. Microsoft said that the pre-orders for Windows 7 were greater than all sales for Vista the entire time it’s been on sale (hype).
According to support forums and this [...]

Is Windows 7 Poised to Piss on Windows Vista? If you believe the hype, they say that Windows 7 has already taken more pre-orders than Vista sold during it’s entire run to date! Pretty impressive – huh? I guess if they actually fired the whole Vista team and build a new versio of Windows that’s [...]

Windows Vista is definitely a drain on any system, and I’ve heard from tons of people how much faster their systems were once they wiped out Vista and replaced it with XP. It would make sense, since XP doesn’t have Aero or the visual eye candy of Vista and all that does is just eat [...]

Everyone seems to think that Windows 7 will be worth the wait and much better than Windows Vista. I laughed when I read this post that basically said Windows Vista is president Bush and Windows 7 is president Obama. It also mentions that some people are gonna be plenty pissed to have to pay yet [...]

The post Does Linux stand a chance against Windows 7 got me thinking, Microsoft has really thought about the damage that Vista has done. I mean really, I purchased my Toshiba satellite laptop 2 years ago with Vista home on it and now it has dual-boot between Ubuntu and Vista home. Honestly I spend the [...]

With the release of Windows 7 drawing ever closer, there is definitely no shortage of articles about it and Windows Vista as well.
Let’s start off with a post about a version of windows Vista I didn’t know existed “Vista Starter. Apparently this version is about as stripped down as it gets, and was designed [...]

There’s all kinds of Windows news about this week, including the new version of Mac OS – Snow Leopard. It seems there was no mention of it at MacWorld, and it was Apple’s chance to beat the Windows 7 launch in mid-2009.
It seems as though in an attempt to foster good thoughts after the bungled [...]

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 [...]

So it looks as if Microsoft it battling bad Vista PR with the same resource it usually does in bad times – MONEY! They are throwing lots of money at the problem in hopes that they can fix the “Vista perception” in the public eye. Personally, I think that they should just spend that money [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft is running an ad campaign called Mojave. They tell testers that they are testing the new version of Windows (after Vista) code named “Mojave”, and then they actually show them Vista instead. Then the users “all love it (yay!)” – and Microsoft is like “we pwned you – Vista rocks”!
Idiot Microsoft – Vista STILL [...]

Everybody knows that Windows Vista is a dud and Windows XP is still viable. The hilarity of the “downgrade” option is absurd. How ironic is it then that Windows Vista good enough for new OEM PC’s to consumers, but it’s not good enough for Intel employees. Intel has more than 80,000 computers, but is only [...]

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 [...]

The register article Microsoft says ‘hasta la vista XP’ is so timely. It loos like Windows 7 (to be released in Jan 2010) is really gonna be Vista mock 2, and built on the same “core architecture”. Basically they’re saying – no surprised, we’re gonna fix it this time – really! In addition, OEM’s can [...]

It’s time to review what’s new with Windows Vista in the news! First up is the $1,632 copy of Windows Vista that’s just insane. Bill ordered Vista online and each time he tried to pay it gave him an error screen and he had to go back. Each time he went back and tried again [...]

This is horrible Vista Promo video is like something out of a bad Saturday Night Live sketch. It’s soooo bad you’ll be rolling on the floor howling in laughter! To make matters worse, they probably blew millions on this clip with really bad fake Bruce Springsteen. If they were going to drive a bad idea [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]