Microsoft is really taking the gloves off this time. ZDNet is reporting that it will spend $500 million to make a powerful statement to its hundreds of millions of customers. I imagine the statement would have to go something like this: Windows Vista isn’t really as bad as they say. Honest. Please don’t be mad at us. We promise our next operating system will be better. Pinky swear.

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Your new PC came with Vista. Maybe your office deployed Vista. Or, perhaps, you got caught up in the early hype and bought Vista. Whatever the case, now you're stuck with it. Wish you could turn back the clock and restore your beloved Windows XP? Unless your name is Marty McFly, you're outta luck.

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SanDisk said Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid-state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year. Solid-state drives (SSDs) are used instead of hard disk drives in select high-end notebook PCs today such as the Apple MacBook Air and Toshiba Portege R500.

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I already have my plans booked for the coming weekend. No, I am not going to take my kids to the park for some summer fun or check out "Hancock" at the theaters like I had planned. Instead, I will probably be wiping my laptop of the last shreds of Windows Vista and reinstalling Windows XP Professional and trying to find all of the drivers I need to get everything working right again. No, it does not sound like a lovely weekend, but it is not like I didn't give Vista a chance.

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SanDisk said Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year. Solid state drives (SSDs) are used instead of hard disk drives in select high-end notebook PCs today such as the Apple MacBook Air and Toshiba Portege R500.

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There is a list of proficient operating systems in the Information technology souk. A consumer gets baffled in choosing suitable operating system for a computer. Latest operating systems in the market are Leopard from Mac OS, Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista (service pack 1) and Ubuntu. Here we will thrash out the characteristics of each operating system and this information will definitely assist a consumer to go for a suitable operating system for him.

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lWith Mac OS X 10.5, Mac owners can now enjoy Windows Vista x64 on their computers. The one major downside to using bootcamp, is that your Mac OS X partition is inaccessible while booted into Windows. Mediafour's MacDrive product changes all of that, as it is made specifically to solve this problem! Now with their 7.0 release, it fully supports Vista x64. This is great news for Mac owners who want to enjoy a true 64-bit operating system ;).

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This is something I have been thinking about for some time now. For starters, let's be clear, Microsoft Windows Vista works. I am not saying it works well, but it works. There are the odd faults of course. Some have been fixed with a much expected Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Most are still related to device drivers (and almost 30% alone caused by NVIDIA software). And of course the inevitable comparison with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 - itself fast and quite solid.

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180 million copies of Vista sold and it's still struggling for acceptance. That's the news off the back of Microsoft's Q4 results this week which fell well below analyst expectations. For the final quarter the giant behemoth posted revenues of $15.8bn, an 18 per cent year on year increase while profit was up 13 per cent at $4.3bn. Still, Microsoft was full of reasoning behind the – still impressive – numbers pointing to the impact of the credit crunch on online advertising revenues and stressing caution for future quarters.

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Do you have an LCD monitor, either stand-alone or on a laptop, that has a native resolution that is so high that text and other graphical elements, such as icons, appear small? If so, you’ve probably lowered the resolution a couple of notches to make it a bit easier to see. However, chances are that isn’t an ideal solution because most LCDs don’t look all that great at a resolution that is lower than the native resolution.

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In a rare move, Microsoft is now offering free unlimited installation and compatibility support for Windows Vista, but only for Service Pack 1 (SP1). This even includes FREE phone support! So fear not upgrading or installing Vista SP1 - Microsoft's (News - Alert) got your back! Note: Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada.

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Apple's operating system is gaining ground on Microsoft Windows, with second-quarter results showing the company inching close to a 10 per cent market share in the US.
While Windows certainly still dominates the computer market, Apple's share continues to grow. Just released second-quarter market share figures from Gartner show Apple shipments up 38 per cent, to 8.5 per cent of all units shipped, up from 6.4 per cent a year ago.

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Two security bulletins, from December 2007 and from June 2008 respectively, affecting the DirectX components of a wide range of Windows operating systems including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, have been updated. According to Microsoft, the modifications were designed to simply add DirectX 9.0a on the list of impacted DirectX versions.

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Today, we bid adieu to Windows XP. Despite an outpouring of demand -- including more than 210,000 people who signed InfoWorld's "Save XP" petition, Microsoft held firm and yesterday discontinued sales of XP in most cases. Sure, any copies of XP in use will continue to run, so the venerable operating system isn't leaving us entirely.

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Almost every mini notebook manufacturer is shunning Windows Vista, and manufacturers are turning towards Windows XP or Linux. Some say it is because the operating system is less bloated and more power efficient, while others say it is just cheaper to buy. Since I have had the mentality that Vista only needs a few mild tweaks before it feels like an enhanced XP, I decided to pull the trigger and load Vista onto our MSI Wind.

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