Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Vista Capable suit no longer a class action
- Vista Capable suit no longer a class actionInflation in computer prices?I seem to remember the computer prices never really changing when Vista came out. All that seemed to happen was you got more computer for the same price. Almost all the computers coming out had a built in video card...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., class action, Vista Capable, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-02-19
- Report: July 1 kick-off for Windows 7 free-upgrade program still likely
- Report: July 1 kick-off for Windows 7 free-upgrade program still likelywell don't rush iti hope they dont rush the release, many people say it's stable and runs better than vista but have people looked at technet??? there are many people there that have problems with windows 7. i hope they...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- (Cheap and cheerful Vista-capable PC for $260 plus change)
- (Cheap and cheerful Vista-capable PC for $260 plus change)Cheap and Dirty...Do I miss a case??RE: (Cheap and cheerful Vista-capable PC for $260 plus change)I disagree. I had a similar configuration;Amd x2 64 4600MSI K9AGM2VistaPatriot 2X1GBWD Caviar 500GBSamsung 18XDVD BurnerEvga 7600GS 256MB pci-e sliPurchased around this time last year, for 3...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), cheerful Vista capable PC, Vista capable PC, Vista Capable, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Cheap and cheerful Vista-capable PC for $260 plus change
- Cheap and cheerful Vista-capable PC for $260 plus changeA sempron could run aeroI got a AMD Sempron for my neice with only 512mb RAM. Windows Vista32 Ultimate, it could run aero. I use a ATI 9600 vid card. I had to get rid of XP, hurts my...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Refurbished PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista capable PC, cheerful Vista capable PC, Vista Capable, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Monkeys throwing bananas...and other great lines from the Troll culture
- Monkeys throwing bananas...and other great lines from the Troll cultureLike Beethoven at the keyboard .Microsoft .Coxisms[url=http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=45152&messageID=834512&start=-9961]Typical Coxism[/url]Gets me through the day with a 'chuckle'.What do you call ...... a MAC portable user?An AIRhead.Didn't amuse the MAC community ... and I'm not ananymous so I guess you'll have to disqualify it...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, No_Axe_to_Grind, Vista Capable, Aero, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- "Vista Capable" logo - what went wrong?
- "Vista Capable" logo - what went wrong?What went wrong was simple....... MS proved once again that they are a marketing company and not a technology company. Marketing takes precedence. It doesn't matter if the customer gets scr3wed because they're a monoply and the customer's only purpose is to fill the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), No_Ax, marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Vista Capable
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- Lawyers: Vista branding confused even Microsoft
- Lawyers: Vista branding confused even MicrosoftThat about says it all, no?If their marketing guy couldn't figure out what it meant, until INSTRUCTED BY THE LAWYERS, what chance did gramma have in the sales room?Why can't Vista Ultimate run on low end PCs?I can understand how the distinction between "capable" and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), branding, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Capable
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- How misleading was the "Windows Vista Capable" campaign?
- How misleading was the "Windows Vista Capable" campaign?Non Sequitur[i]Seems that it was misleading enough for a judge to approve a federal trial for the class action suit.[/i]At this stage of a lawsuit, the merits of the case are not before the Court. Don't make the mistake of confusing procedure...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Vista Capable, Microsoft Windows, Vista Capable, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Windows Vista Capable logo confusing to customers
- Windows Vista Capable logo confusing to customersIt isn't just the processing powerMany "Vista" capable computers are not actually Vista capable due to hardware incompatibilities. You can qualify all you want and state that "it isn't a Vista problem" that xyz hasn't released a driver yet. If I am...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), RAM, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Capable, Microsoft Corp., computer, video
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- Windows Vista Capable logo confusing to customers
- Following a lawsuit which charges Microsoft with deceptive practices by allowing PC manufacturers to fix "Vista Capable" stickers onto PCs which lack the power to offer the consumer the ability to run some of Vistas most touted features, theres been a lot of discussion about what the Windows Vista Capable...
- Tags: Microsoft, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Vista branding is confusing, but is it criminal?
- Vista branding is confusing, but is it criminal?But Microsoft doesn't...put the stickers on, the PC makers do. So shouldn't she be suing the company that sold her the PC? If I sold her a toaster with a "Vista Capable" sticker on it, would she still sue Microsoft? Well, they do...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Vista Capable, PC, Vista branding, branding
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Vista branding is confusing, but is it criminal?
- I feel Dianne Kelleys pain. But I think the idea of suing Microsoft for $5 million because the companys Windows Vista branding is confusing is over the top. Kelley filed a class action suit against Microsoft, claiming deceptive Vista marketing practices. "In sum, Microsoft engaged in bait and...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- No Vista, but Vista Capable stickers coming soon
- No Vista, but Vista Capable stickers coming soonVista-capable stickers for viruses too?"Designed for Windows XP, Windows Vista Capable"Be careful what you wish forWith so much legacy code and backwards-compatibility in Vista, the same slogan will apply to future viruses. Hence rumors of a Vista anti-virus subscription service from Microsoft, which...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), sticker, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Capable sticker, Vista Capable
- Discussion threads 2006-04-02
Additional Resources
- February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer
- RE: February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet ExplorerThat does assume that everything remains constant, which it won't. If someone creates a new browser that could disrupt it, or when either company releases a new version of their browser that is also going to throw things...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- AVADirect Nano Cube
- AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game
- Product reviews 2009-11-04
- ProteinID Finder Lite 1.7.0 (Mac)
- ProteinID Finder is a proteomics analyzation software capable of extracting information from the online universal protein resource database UniProt. ProteinID Finder imports your mass spectrometer analyzed protein lists uniprot accession numbers into experiments and organizes your proteomics experiments into workspaces. You can share workspaces with your collaborators so everyone is...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Experiment, Tool, Proteome Solutions, ProteinID Finder, Productivity, Microsoft Windows 7, Storage, Apple Mac OS X, Databases, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Apple Mac OS, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- Yes, based on Mac history, Windows 7.5 will suck less
- Ummmm..."Windows 1: Shipped in 1985 and nobody cared.Windows 2: Shipped in 1987 and few cared.Windows 3: Came out in 1990 and PC users cared, especially with Windows 3.1 in 1992 (And I include here the introduction of Windows NT, which I believe was given a 3.x number.)Windows 4: Windows 95....
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7.5, Mac history, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-11-01
- ZDNet Government version of Throw out the Trash Day
- More trash pleaseNice idea ... may I submit a similar one for the editor's consideration? Can we have 'trash of the week' by a ZDNET blogger. Serious ... with a touch of humour. Example follows.In Jason Perlow's 'The Vista is Dead' spoof mwagner@zdnet.com was moved to comment."Sounds like you didn't...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance management, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Students find Win 7 upgrade a tough assignment
- Well DUH!Students, retired folks, IT pros, dabblers, 'nix heads, etc. would ALL find trying to UPGRADE from a 32 bit to a 64 bit OS hard. Three words - "can't be done."There, was that hard? Why is this even news?This is newsbecause some people like to keep spreading...
- Tags: Operating systems, clean install, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Migration Wizard
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Netbooks worth the upgrade to Windows 7? Heck yes!
- my thoughts"As I wrote the day that 7 launched, 'Windows 7 is just another OS.'"An article sitting at a -1 rating (out of 33 people) as I type this, and with quite a bit of Talkback discussion. Not exactly a shining pillar of truth."Most netbooks ship with Windows XP Home...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Boot-time, Waking Up, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks worth, Heck Yes
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
Popular Sanity Saver Videos
White Papers and Webcasts
