Topic: Microsoft Windows Vista

Twenty People, Four Notes

How Microsoft created the sound of Vista.READ»

Is This a Microsoft Renaissance?

New data suggests Microsoft's Bing search engine is continuing to grow well, weeks after its launch. It's great news for the team at Redmond...but it started us wondering: Are we in the middle of a Microsoft Rennaissance? Microsoft's ...READ»

Vista Service Pack 1 causes loss of functionality for some programs

Information about programs that are known to experience a loss of functionality when they run on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based computer Many micro businesses rely on Zone Alarm or Trend Micro brand security software, ...READ»

Vista: The Safest Operating System on the Planet?

At least that's what Microsoft COO Kevin Turner said last week during a speech at a CIO summit. "Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we've ever built. It's ...READ»

Technology: No More Vista "Kill Switch"

Microsoft announced today that it will stop remotely disabling versions of Vista that its registration servers deem pirated. If you're not privy to this feature of Vista, here's the lowdown: when your register your shiny new copy of ...READ»

Windows Vista Guidebook

Windows Vista went on sale today, but reports reveal that no one was lining up to get a copy of the latest operating system released by the Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. Sales results of the operating system will more likely be ...READ»

Microsoft Unleashes Windows 7 Beta As Free Download

As part of his CES keynote speech yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer surprised the crowd by announcing that Windows 7 is now available as a Beta test version for free download. MSDN and TechNet subscribers can get it ...READ»

XP Just Won't Die, So Microsoft Sorta Gives Up On Vista

While Apple is busy trying to protect its current-generation operating system, Microsoft has been trying to kill off its elder one. Windows XP use has rumbled on far longer than Microsoft would've wanted (original termination was ...READ»

OQO Model 02: The Biggest Little Computer Around

There are plenty of ultra-mobile computers on the market, and most of them are beleaguered little gizmos: half the size of a laptop, but also half the speed, half the storage, half a keyboard, and in short, half-assed. In that ...READ»

Microsoft CEO Defends Himself Against Class-Action Allegations

All it took was one flimsy product designation, and now Microsoft [MSFT] has a class-action lawsuit on its hands. The suit charges that Microsoft certified certain budget computer models as "Vista Capable" when, in fact, ...READ»

Look Ma…No Hands! Windows Vista Speech Recognition Software

Windows Vista Speech Recognition software may not have rendered the keyboard obsolete, but it certainly has made it unnecessary for many people. The voice-control software translates speech into text with impressive speed and ...READ»

Buy Vista … or else!

A smart(ass) marketing professionals can find opportunity in adverse situations. So in an effort to atone for my occasional (perpetual) jabs at Microsoft and Vista, I offer the following observations of two bad realities that ...READ»

Tech Watch: Obama Launches Video Game Campaign; Microsoft on Windows 7; and Adobe Ships CS4

In a last-minute campaign effort, Obama's team has launched a full force Video Game Campaign extending the candidate's reach into the 18-34 market.READ»

• How to Build a Brand Like Obama
• The Brand Called Obama

Windows 7 Pricing Out, and It's a Vista Re-Run

It's official: Windows 7 is due October 22, and will cost you at least $120 to upgrade from a Vista or XP machine. Microsoft just released its price list, which is sure to be a disappointment for some, due to the high cost. Luckily, ...READ»

I Like B&N’s New Return Policy

Retailers seem to be cracking down on returns lately, and I don’t really blame them. I’m all for fairness if a product is defective, or the wrong size, but you have to draw the line somewhere.  The customer isn’t right if ...READ»

Microsoft's Ad Campaigns: An Overview

Microsoft's ad campaigns have rarely been memorable. READ»

• Can Alex Bogusky help Microsoft Beat Apple?

The Six "Wow" Features of Windows 7

How Sam Moreau and his eclectic team of architects, industrial designers, and writers created the "Wow!" features of Microsoft's new operating system.READ»

Microsoft's New Ad Receives Backlash

If you haven't seen it already, Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] has commissioned a new advertisement featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, in an attempt to salvage public opinion of its new OS, Vista. Curiously, the ad doesn't make ...READ»

Is Apple Planning a Win-7 Diversion?

For Windows 7 to outshine the disaster that is Vista, it will have to be both a technical panacea and a marketing success. Microsoft has been splurging on TV ads, haplessly enlisting "regular" people to get you to throw parties in ...READ»

The Six Tech Marvels We Had Better See In 2009

As 2008 comes to a close, here are the six tech marvels that are ready to explode into ubiquity. And after a year of almost-breakthroughs -- fast-but-spotty 3G; cheap-but-slow netbooks -- we deserve them. After all, this is the future, isn't it?READ»

Windows 7 for Netbooks, Limited to Running Only Three Apps at a Time

There're a lot of positive vibes on the Intertubes about Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 OS. It's had great reviews, the beta-test version had to be extended, and it looks like it'll be here soon enough to make Vista's failures just ...READ»

Tech Watch: Audi, HP, and Google Get it Wrong

Why do so many huge companies fail to be successful with the latest "innovation" they release? We examine Audi's A1, HP's TouchSmart and Google's latest features for the answer.READ»

Microsoft to Release Zune Phone?

There's been a lot of buzz lately about Microsoft's [NASDAQ:MSFT] new, if belated, campaign to get reluctant users to adopt Vista. What they're doing is the ol' on-camera switcheroo: filming "real" users reactions to a ...READ»

Developers Getting Windows 7

Moving at what seems like warp speed compared to their usual software timeline, Microsoft [MSFT] has announced that it will seed developers with an alpha version of Windows 7 at its Professional Developers Conference, which takes ...READ»

Sony Vaio P Now Official: a Lifestyle PC, Not a Netbook

After all that teasing, Sony's finally unwrapped the small and slim Vaio P. And as Sony's spin has it, it's not so much a netbook as a Windows Vista-running, super-widescreen "Lifestyle PC," so very sleekly designed it almost ...READ»