Author: Greg Shultz
Someday, someway, your organization is going to have to make a decision regarding the next operating system deployment. Do you know the facts of the current debate? Don’t you think you should?
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It seems like everywhere you turn on the Web these days, there’s another article bad-mouthing Microsoft Windows Vista and telling you to [...]
Release candidate’ in February, says site that nailed Vista SP1, XP SP3 dates
Microsoft will deliver Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) to manufacturing in April 2009, two months after it issues a final test version to users, according to a Web site that accurately predicted several Windows ship dates in 2008.
TechARP.com, a Malaysian Web site [...]
Security researchers at Phion AG, an Austrian firewall company, report that Windows Vista has a TCP/IP vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to take control of an affected system.
The vulnerability has been tested on Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise (32-bit and 64-bit) and Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit). The researches consider it likely [...]
On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn’t impact enterprise IT — because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come — the move is another symbolic nail in Vista’s coffin.
The public reputation of Windows Vista [...]
Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system is still playing second fiddle to XP among business users, with more enterprises investigating the unreleased Windows 7 than its predecessor.
More than half (58 percent) of businesses using Microsoft technology are “exploiting” Windows XP, compared to just four percent for Vista, according to research by the Corporate IT Forum (Tif).
Tif [...]
Scores of users report that Apple Inc.’s latest version of iTunes crashes Windows Vista when an iPod or iPhone is connected to the PC.
As soon as an iPod or iPhone is plugged into the PC, Vista crashes and shows the “blue screen of death” (BSOD), the critical error screen on a blue background that requires [...]
Save yourself future aggravation by creating an exact mirrored duplicate of all the data files in your user profile folder.
If you’re a conscientious computer user, chances are that you’ve used the Backup and Restore Center’s Complete PC Backup to create an image file of your Vista hard disk and you use the Windows Backup to [...]
There is a bug in Windows Explorer in Windows Vista that can create a situation where it will no longer allow you to select more than one file at a time.
Once this rogue setting is created in the registry saving this folder’s view causes all folders to become affected.
The following is a solution to this [...]
In mid-July, representatives of Microsoft traveled to San Francisco in search of people who hated Windows Vista. The company recruited 140 Mac and PC users who thought Microsoft’s latest operating system was slow, that it crashed constantly, that it was incompatible with various devices, and that installing it would be a pain. None of these [...]
Sixty percent of IT administrators have no plans to deploy Vista despite Service Pack 1, which fixed some of the operating systems problems, according to a survey of 1,100 IT managers.
The survey, conducted by KACE, which makes systems management appliances, found that there are 10 percent more holdouts on Vista deployments. Forty two percent of [...]
