More Windows Vista Problems for Korean Firms
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| Some MP3 players are experiencing glitches with computers on
| which Microsoft's new operating system Windows Vista has
| been installed.
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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200702/200702060016.html
It doesn't appear to be such a successful launch. No "wow", surely.
http://img236.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0203071540rl1.jpg
Related (on some more bugs, among very many):
MSN Music UK does not play on Vista
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| I cannot play MSN Music UK's music files on Vista - I've over 150
| tracks that I purchased - and it doesn't work.
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http://badgerguy.livejournal.com/179419.html
Vista and iTunes Don't Play Nice Together
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| Various folks are reporting that you cannot authorize iTunes
| (for WIndows) on Vista to play things purchased from the iTunes Store.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/01/vista-and-itunes-dont-play-nice-together/
Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
|
| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2237
Lack of Internal Talks at Microsoft, Google
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| Maybe my "Microsoft's Entertainment Domination" theory was a bit
| premature. Apparently, the Zune MP3 player isn't flying off shelves
| and now it turns out that the Zune is incompatible with Microsoft'
| latest Windows Vista operating system. Amazing how a disconnect like
| this can occur within an organization. Software start-ups are taking
| advantage of the lowered development costs and the speedy development
| time -- and forcing large software organizations to speed up their
| own development cycles, but in the process, the large organizations
| are fumbling to communicate effectively amongst their departments.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/lack-of-internal-talks-at-microsoft-google/
QuickCam Messenger
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| "This Camera will not work with Windows Vista."
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http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/downloads/software/US/EN,CRID=1794,contentid=6361
64 bit gamers??! no? yes? soon, never??!
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| "Umm, yah... I use Ubuntu and then I swap over to Windows when I want to
| play a game... Screw Vista. The only reason I want it is for DX10."
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http://www.pcgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22164
First Vista Bug
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| "Namely, couple of times I tried to copy some of my files file to
| another folder (especially if these were executable), this
| puzzling error Error 0x800704C8: "The requested operation
| cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped- section open" jumped
| up..."
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http://www.vistajuice.com/2007/02/first_vista_bug.php
Windows Vista updates not on Microsoft Update
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| "These updates are available on WSUS servers, not on Windows Update."
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http://bink.nu/Article9425.bink
Vista breaks 90% of games, claims game publisher
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| Alex St. John, chief executive of game publisher WildTangent, today
| blasted his former employer for a half-baked and negligent way of
| treating the majority of game publishers - small development studios
| and individual programmers of casual games: St. John claims that at
| least nine out of ten games do not work with Vista.
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http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/01/30/vista_games/
Windows Vista and casual games: the woe starts now
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| Casual game company alleges the security of Microsoft's new
| OS goes to far and stifles web-based games.
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http://gaming.monstersandcritics.com/pc/news/article_1253720.php/Windows_Vista_and_casual_games_the_woe_starts_now
New Windows, Old Problems
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| First there was too little security. Now, users will complain of too
| much. When will Microsoft get it just right?
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/30/vista-security-patch-tech-security-cx_ll_0130vistasecurity.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/3chuqo
Microsoft Vista Charged With Breaking Games
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| Just 24 hours after the lavish launch party for Vista , a former
| Microsoft engineer has charged
| that a glitch in the new version of Windows makes it impossible to
| run hundreds of popular online and downloadable games.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/techgames/10335859.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
http://tinyurl.com/2mbx76
Windows Vista's hyped security will be tested
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| Most security experts see Vista as a more secure operating system
| than its predecessor, Windows XP, but even Microsoft acknowledges
| it's not impenetrable and attackers will undoubtedly look for a way in.
|
| Attackers can use spyware programs to monitor a computer remotely
| and collect personal information on a user. They can also control
| machines remotely to attack Web sites, send spam e-mail or
| defraud online advertisers.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070131:MTFH04135_2007-01-31_01-13-21_N30387700&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/2wv4pz
Vista: long-term burn, not short-term sizzle
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| If bullishness were revenue, Microsoft is well on its way to a
| bumper fiscal 2007 and 2008...
|
| [...]
|
| Unfortunately, money talks, not marketing, and Microsoft has been
| reticent in providing guidance for the period when Windows Vista
| would ship, lest these numbers provide something solid to work
| with. Until last week, that is.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/31/vista_sales/
Vista fails to 'wow' the online world
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| While Microsoft trumpeted Vista worldwide on Tuesday, the Internet
| abounded with postings from people unimpressed or downright
| disappointed with the new operating system.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070131/tc_afp/usitsoftwareinternetcompanymicrosoftvista
Vista sends 49,693 page print job to printer
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| Well obviously I didn't intend for this to happen. I chose file->print
| inside Firefox 2.0.0.1 running on Vista Enterprise. I just assumed
| it printed the one page I requested, but when I went to the printer
| in the next room, I discovered it was spewing out pages with nothing
| but the header and footer from Firefox. Great work, Microsoft. Or
| maybe it is Firefox's fault? Who the hell knows.
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http://www.hinerman.net/blog/?p=63
Vista Bug re-appears
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| Nice... minus one million, three hundred eight thousand, two
| hundred fifty nine bytes... how is that any where near or
| mathematically altered to 2.11 MB?
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http://jadeallen.com/toms/index.asp?DoAction=ReadDay&ID=359
Windows Vista's Hideous Wakeup Support
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| One thing we just can't wrap our mind about is the terrible,
| broken, and completely pitiful support for waking Vista up from
| a Deep Sleep or hibernation.' Any time you attempt to wake Vista
| up from Hibernation or "Deep Sleep" (S3-induced sleep mode), it
| dies. It's either a BSOD, or a driver error, or a broken network,
| no DWM, lack of sound... the list goes on, and on. So much for an
| operating system to "power" the future! (No pun intended!) That's
| with properly-signed drivers and no buggy software on
| multiple PCs...
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http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/299
TI won't rush into Microsoft Vista readily
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| Corporate American, no, make that corporate everywhere is treating Vista
| like a dead animal found in the woods, they will poke it with a stick,
| but there is no way they will take it home. Take TI for instance, it
| is not going to touch the wonder OS for another two years or so.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36259
Installing A PS/2 Mouse Turns Off Firewall, Huh!
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| I plugged in the PS/2 mouse, rebooted the PC and on restart XP found the
| PS/2 mouse and suggested rebooting again, which I did. When it restarted
| the Microsoft Firewall had been switched off. How do I know, because it
| told me I had no firewall.
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http://crunchysoftware.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/ps2-mouse-turns-off-firewall/
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 Sucks!
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| I know Microsoft's release of IE 7.0 is in beta, but I still didn't
| expect it to be such a big piece of crap and cause hours of misery.
|
| [...]
|
| What Microsoft hoped would help it win back Firefox "switchers" has
| done nothing but add one more to their growing ranks.
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http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/02/microsoft-ie-70-sucks.html
Just One Question For Vista: Does It Simply Work -- Like An Apple?
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| Jim Allchin responds over on his blog regarding a recent news report
| quoting him as saying that he would have bought a Mac if he weren't
| working for Microsoft in an email to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.
|
| [...]
|
| So the challenge for Microsoft, and in some ways to an even larger
| extent Allchin himself personally, is to ship Vista in a state that
| is as bug free as the Mac.
|
| Vista is Allchin's final legacy at Microsoft. After a long successful
| career this is his last hurah and in order to be successful it simply
| must be perfect.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061213/22341_id.html?.v=1
Life with Vista - Is this dogfood really for the dogs?
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| I'm an absolute freak when it comes to .NET technologies. My blog
| is called the ".NET Addict", so it should be pretty obvious that
| the day Vista's RTM build came out, I downloaded it and installed
| it on every Vista-capable machine I had in my possession. I've
| been using Vista for several weeks now and I've come to a couple
| of conclusions that I think might startle and shock some of you.
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http://dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/vista_dogfood.htm
He claims RTM is in the state of a beta.
Vista Breaks Applications
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| The big secret at Redmond is that existing applications and new
| products will not work with Vista.
|
| Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your
| existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand
| new products won't work with Vista.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062318,00.asp
Vista... Don't Try to Copy and Paste
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| Vista gave me the following when trying to copy a
| file:
|
| Error 0x800705AD. Ohh, well of course... I should have known error
| 0x800705AD means the user tried to COPY AND PASTE. Are you shitting
| me?! Insufficient quota? WTF are you talking about Vista. First
| let's check that I have enough disk space:
|
| Ok, now by my calculations 413 MBs < 22.8 GBs. I can normally
| figure out almost any computer related problem.
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http://buckwheats.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/vista%e2%80%a6-don%e2%80%99t-try-to-copy-and-paste-o/
Vista: Behind the scenes
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| Some of the glitches were already known. Many were things that have
| already been fixed, and a few were too new and need investigating.
| None appeared to be a show-stopper.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6133491.html
Analysts: Microsoft Changes Meaning Of 'Release Candidate'
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| Two industry watchers say Microsoft is corrupting the term, leading to
| major confusion among customers and others about whether the operating
| system is truly ready to evaluate.
|
| Two analysts Thursday accused Microsoft Corp. of changing the meaning
| of "release candidate" by pushing out a version of Windows Vista that
| still needs major work.
|
| [...]
|
| Joe Wilcox, an analyst with JupiterResearch, said that Microsoft's
| corrupted the term.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192700055&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
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