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Here's the list of fixes in those new Vista fix packs

I linked to an AeroXP post this morning listing hot fixes for Windows Vista provided in two new Knowledge Base postings. The AeroXP post is gone now. Poof!So if you wanted the list of what's in there, here it is. I grabbed it from NVNews.Net. I am posting the Vista...

Tags: Windows client, Service Pack, Vista, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-30

New Vista fix packs provide updates promised for SP1

Microsoft has rolled out to select testers two new Windows Vista fix packs that deliver many of the same updates expected to be provided by Vista Service Pack SP 1.The fix packs (detailed in Knowledge Base articles 938194 and 938979) were made available to Windows Server 2008 testers on July...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Windows client, Vista, Service Pack

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Windows Vista hits the 60-million-copies-sold milestone

I predicted Microsoft would hit the 60-million-copies-sold mark with Windows Vista around July 1. On July 26, at its annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM, Microsoft officials acknowledged the company has hit that milestone.At the end of the fist 100 days of sales, at the start of May, Microsoft said it...

Tags: Windows client, Vista, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-26

Windows Seven: Think 2010

Windows Seven now has an official ship target -- 2010.At Microsoft's Global Exchange MGX annual sales conference in Orlando this week, Microsoft shared a bit more -- albeit at a high level -- on Windows Seven, according to a copy of a slide deck I saw that was distributed...

Tags: Windows Live, Windows client, Windows 7, Vista, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-20

New hires, datacenter investments evident in Microsoft earnings

Most of the reports of Microsoft's fiscal Q4 2007 and full year results are focusing on how the $1 billion one-time charge Microsoft took to offset Xbox hardware failures affected the company's bottom line.But there were lots of other meaty bits buried in the Microsoft balance sheets -- including the...

Tags: Xbox, Windows Live, Windows client, Web 2.0, Vista, Office 2007, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-19

Wanted: New information on XP SP3

If Microsoft officials don't want you to know about Vista Service Pack SP 1, you can be darn well sure they really don't want to talk about Windows XP Service Pack SP 3. But customers definitely want to discuss it.XP users who still aren't crazy about the idea of moving...

Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Vista, Service Pack, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-19

It is time to stop the spread of Vista SP1 misinformation!

Microsoft wants you to be informed about the current state of the Windows Vista SP1 beta.(Not really, but they are pretending they do....)Here is the latest official missive on Vista SP1 from Microsoft headquarters:"There will be a Windows Vista service pack and our current expectation is that a beta will...

Tags: Windows client, Windows 7, Vista, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-19

Microsoft starts priming the pump for Vista SP1 Preview

Microsoft is still on track to make a beta available later this week of what it's referring to as "Vista Service Pack 1 Preview," according to sources close to the company.Microsoft is expected to provide certain testers with access to the Vista SP1 Preview beta code later this week, possibly...

Tags: Windows client, Vista, Service Pack, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Microsoft hones its future Windows feature-set list

In December 2006, Microsoft requested feedback from a select group of invitees regarding what they would like to see fixed, changed and/or added to future Windows builds. The Windows team got an earful: Nearly 800 new feature requests, another 560-plus change requests and almost 400 defects.The Windows team has winnowed...

Tags: Vista, Windows 7, Windows client

Blog posts 2007-07-12

More on what's in store for Vista SP1

So what else will get fixed as part of the first service pack for Vista?I ran a short list on July 8 of some of the fixes and enhanced functionality that my sources are telling me will be part of Vista SP 1, a first beta of which is due...

Tags: Windows client, Vista, Service Pack, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-09

Vista SP1 beta 1 to launch in mid-July

It's official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft.Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista -- not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end -- the company...

Tags: Windows client, Vista, Service Pack, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-08

Google petitions again to weigh in on Microsoft-DOJ case

If at first you don't succeed, complain, complain again.Google has filed a second request to be considered a friend of the court in the Microsoft-Department of Justice antitrust case.As noted by Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Todd Bishop, Google filed its latest five-page request on July 2, a week after Judge Collen...

Tags: Google, Legal, Search, Vista, Windows client

Blog posts 2007-07-03

Microsoft's Iain McDonald: It's the end of a (Longhorn) era

Iain McDonald, a guy with the humble title of Director of Project Management for Windows Server, has had a long and deep impact on Microsoft's Windows organization.The 15-year Microsoft veteran has served on a variety of teams, from Product Support Services, to Exchange Server, to Windows Server. He was a...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Vista, Windows client, Windows server, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows XP, WinHEC

Blog posts 2007-07-03

Microsoft says more Vista Ultimate add-ons are in the pipeline

Windows users who shelled out extra to get the top-of-the-line Vista Ultimate SKU, your requests for an update have been answered. Microsoft hasn't abandoned its promise to get more of the expected downloadable add-ons to Ultimate to you, after all.Microsoft posted an update on the whereabouts to the Vista Team...

Tags: Windows client, Vista, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Microsoft submits XPS alternative to PDF to ECMA for standardization

Like it has done with its Open XML specification, Microsoft is pushing its XML Paper Specification XPS alternative to PDF through the standards bodies. And just like the case with Open XML, Microsoft's competitors are lining up to diss Redmond's standards moves.Even Microsoft's critics admit they don't like the "heavy-handed"...

Tags: Windows client, Vista, Office 2007, Office, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Warning for 64-bit Windows users: No iPhone support for you

As Engadget reported over the weekend, the iPhone is incompatible with the 64-bit flavors of Windows XP and Windows Vista.Apple's iPhone specs page doesn't mention the incompatibility; it says that the iPhone will work with Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate Edition; or Windows XP Home or Professional...

Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Vista, Telecommunications, Apple, App Compatibility

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Microsoft to simplify downgrades from Vista to XP

Microsoft is simplifying the processes via which its PC-maker partners will be able to provide "downgrade" rights from Windows Vista to Windows XP for their customers.Microsoft will implement the first of the policy changes for its Gold Certified (top-tier) OEM partners within the next couple of weeks. The company will...

Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, OEMs, Resellers, System builders, Vista, Windows client, Windows XP

Blog posts 2007-06-28

The search antitrust ball is back in DOJ, states' court

During a June 26 Microsoft antitrust-compliance status hearing, a U.S. Districut Court judge said she'll look to the U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general for guidance, re: Google's latest antitrust-related complaints against Microsoft.U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said Tuesday she expected the plaintiffs the DOJ and states to...

Tags: Windows client, Vista, Search, Legal, Google, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-06-26

Even Softies get the Vista installation blues

This is one for all of you readers who've had trouble installing Windows Vista. Don't feel bad. Even some Microsoft developers -- who have the Vista team on premise -- can't manage to upgrade to Vista.Microsoft developer Andy Pennell wanted to install Vista at home. (Pennell is a developer on...

Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Windows 7, Vista

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Windows Longhorn won't be reloaded, after all

One month after a team of Windows enthusiasts hit Milestone 1 of "Longhorn Reloaded," Microsoft has put the kibosh on the project.Longhorn Reloaded -- an initiative of a handful of members of the Joejoe.org site to take up where Microsoft left off with its Longhorn client development in 2004 --...

Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Vista, Legal

Blog posts 2007-06-21