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- Microsoft PowerShell isn't Vista-ready, either
- Microsoft PowerShell isn't Vista-ready, eitherHold on therePowershell has been in the works just as long as Riska has. I remember reading this exact same stuff a few years back. At least PS will make it into Riska, WinFS was not as lucky.You must be mistakenMSVista is completely backwards-compatible.mentioned on the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), MSVista, Microsoft Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, RiskA
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- Vista could cost upgrade enthusiasts serious money
- Vista could cost upgrade enthusiasts serious moneyXP may be my last stopI think that XP is as fat as I care to get on a pc, and this new EULA sort of puts the last rail down for me.If I buy a new computer with Vista on it, so be...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), monoculture, hardware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, MSVista, Now Microsoft
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- Who's waiting for Windows Vista?
- Who's waiting for Windows Vista?Corporate communications failure: re-org time.I'm stunned by the volume of misinformation flowing out of Redmond. Come on guys, get your PR act together. I'm shocked that you don't have a dedicated Windows communication team capable of providing your customer base with clear, concise information re: release...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, MSVista, MSO2k7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-08-01
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- Trouble in Vista paradise? Large software vendor warns of major compatibility problems and burdensome remedies
- Trouble in Vista paradise? Large software vendor warns of major compatibility problems and burdensome remediesSimple solutionAll of Intuit's customers can switch to Microsoft's products.This kind of thing happens every few years, and after a while Intuit will figure out how to make their stuff MSVista-only for what customers they have...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Intuit QuickBooks, Intuit Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-25
- Vista at the tipping point
- Vista at the tipping pointVista at the tipping pointFUD! Comlpete and utter FUD. Jeremy are you hurting that much for attention? I thought your whining and crying from leaving Novell would have been enough attention that you brought on to yourself. Guess it wasn't enough. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Jeremy, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, eWeek, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-18
- From the trenches: What's it like developing for Vista and Office 2007?
- From the trenches: What's it like developing for Vista and Office 2007?No real rushKeep in mind that it's going to be several years before the installed base of MSVista systems reaches the point where any but the very tip of the developer tail can afford to target it.New .NET 3.0...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), .NET, ROI/TCO, Arrogant, Microsoft Windows Vista, developer, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., MCSDs, trench, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, rep, Visual Studio 2003
- Discussion threads 2006-11-22
- Windows Vista logos - what do they all mean?
- Windows Vista logos - what do they all mean?editing cleanup required. backstreet boy sez."Don't [b]by[/b] anything on the basis of these logos alone. "[b]by, by, by[/b]? your alarm should be going off, mr. editor.KremlinologyEntrail-reading is all well and good, but wouldn't it be more practical to get into a serious...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVR, Media Center PCs, TV tuner, Microsoft Windows Vista, personal video recorder, Microsoft Windows, Media Center PC
- Discussion threads 2006-11-09
- Windows XP SP3 delayed to 2008
- Windows XP SP3 delayed to 2008Delay won't help!I'm still running the same OS's that my PC's over the years were installed with. I have a Pentium 2 with win98 SE, a P3 with Win2000 Pro and a couple of P4's with Win XP Pro. I do not upgrade OS's -...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, pendulum, MSFT, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, constant repetition, Microsoft Windows XP, repetition
- Discussion threads 2006-10-19
- Platform wars
- Platform warsDependenciesThe desktop-focused tend to assume that there's no problem with having a little Flash, a little MSWPF, a few ActiveX controls, etc. After all, that's how it all works -- right?However, the trick is to recognize that platform wars have always been about exclusion. It's not what...
- Tags: Web browsers, Active X Control, Mozilla Firefox, rich Internet application, Gartner Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-08-28
- Ed Bott's WGA woes signal the big challenges with virtualization
- Ed Bott's WGA woes signal the big challenges with virtualizationVirtualization is all about getting away from MS onto linux. n/tVirtualization is all about getting away from MS onto linux.Since you ask[i]Try a 100 percent transplant of your non-virtual machine to another computer in seconds like that and tell me what...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Linux, 64-bit, PCI, virtualization, LiveCD, Microsoft Corp., USB, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage
- Discussion threads 2006-08-08
- Office or Vista - pick one in 2007
- Office or Vista - pick one in 2007Is there a choice?The last I saw, MSO2K7 only runs on MSVista. MSO2K7 alone isn't an option.Are you kidding? Office 2007 is a disasterLook--I am NOT going to upgrade to Office 2007. Vista seems pretty cool even if it isn't anywhere near...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word 2007
- Discussion threads 2006-07-09
- WinFS: Returned to its womb?
- WinFS: Returned to its womb?It's the APIs, StupidI think you could get a clearer picture on this from John Carroll, but the best I can tell is that what's going back to MSSQLServer country is going to be the cleaned-up APIs that were shopped out for MSVista.[i]Apparently[/i] the metadata organization...
- Tags: Operating systems, WinFS, Microsoft Corp., file system, BeOS
- Discussion threads 2006-06-26
- Foretelling Microsoft's future ...
- Foretelling Microsoft's future ...How this is going to happenYet another post on ZDNET spelling the story of doom and gloom for a company with more pennies in the bank than there are sub-atomic particles in the universe. What we need to realize is that this post is nothing more...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-06-01
- RSA: Microsoft to shelve token support in Vista
- RSA: Microsoft to shelve token support in VistaFootnote[i]Vista will finally come out in early 2008. It will consist of XP SP2 in a fancy new box.[/i]Of course, by then XP SP3 will have come out on schedule. This will enable Microsoft to issue MSVista SP1 immediately. Since corporate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, RSA Security Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-02
- Microsoft and big bets
- Microsoft and big betsIt's not about the arguement...More so than it is about how we "adapt" to things given to us. Eventually rather than being a "benefit" it becomes an "expectation". Which is quite evident in the article and anyone who uses a computer.The more things become a part of...
- Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Digital music, Desktops, Even Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., big bet, O/S, antivirus, operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-04-26
- Measuring Source Lines Of Code (SLOC) - there are bigger birds than Microsoft's albatross
- Measuring Source Lines Of Code SLOC - there are bigger birds than Microsoft's albatrossDepends how you countDebian might have an enourmous amount of SLOC, but keep in mind that this is devided among a lot of projects which just get incorporated into the debian distro.But Debians had it's own problems...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Programming languages, Source Lines Of Code, Debian, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- Democracy and standards
- Democracy and standardsAMAZING!!The man who champions "the market shall decide" is upset because the market decided against MS for once?!?Really, John, let us be honest here. The requirment was simple. A completely open file format for storing government generated information. The reason for this requirement was that...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, government, Wah
- Discussion threads 2005-10-17
- CIO Jury: Convince us on Windows Vista
- CIO Jury: Convince us on Windows VistaOnly 2 of 12??? Where's Mike Cox's name??Too bad. Hmmm, I thought for sure that Mike Cox would be on the list of panelists. If he had, he and his rep could have browbeat the rest of them into supporting Vista without...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2005-08-08
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