A Microsoft marketing scheme persuading consumers to buy PCs “capable” of running Windows Vista could cost more money than Microsoft made from the program. An expert witness giving evidence in the class-action suit against Microsoft’s Windows Vista Capable program has estimated the cost of upgrading so-called “capable” PCs to machines able to run premium editions...
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Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will start beta testing the next service pack update for Windows Vista in coming weeks. The update release will be SP2 for Vista, the operating system which has started fairing well. Familiar sources cited that testers have received invitations to beta test Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2). In...
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One animated cursor bug, many animated critics. Microsoft ’s failure to spot the animated cursor bug in Windows Vista could be a disconcerting sign that Vista’s security-oriented development process slipped up, researchers have suggested. “Apparently Microsoft still hasn’t learned that counting vendor acknowledged vulnerabilities isn’t a good way to establish the security of an OS. As...
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The researchers of the network Exo performance network announced in a current Blog that Vista SP1 (service luggage) is a performance brake. Who expects more speed as a user after the update, will be disappointed – so the result of the group of researchers after several tests in the own laboratory. Many enterprises waited...
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Security vendor Sophos reported last Thursday that Microsoft’s Vista is vulnerable to at least three pieces of widespread malware, two of which date back to 2004. At least three well-known internet worms — labelled Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D and MyDoom-O by Sophos — are able to execute on the operating system, according to Sophos. However, because these...
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While the month of MySpace bugs project kicked off on schedule to start the month, another hacker campaign turned out to be an elaborate April Fools’ Day joke. The Week of Vista Bugs project was designed to play a trick on the media, but also to get people to be more security minded and realize...
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