The Vista Death Watch
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| Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP because Vista has simply not
| shown any life in the market. We have to begin to ask ourselves if we are
| really looking at Windows Me/2007, destined to be a disdained flop. By all
| estimates the number of Vista installations hovers around the number of Macs
| in use.
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| How did this happen? And what’s going to happen next? Does Microsoft have a
| Plan B? A number of possibilities come to mind, and these things must be
| considered by the company itself.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2209837,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000584
How fast is Windows Vista?
http://www.blogstics.com/os/how-fast-is-windows-vista/
Related:
Boot virus shipped on German laptops
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| According to German sources, anywhere between 10,000 and 100,000 systems may
| be infected...
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http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2007/09_14.xml
The XP alternative for Vista PCs
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| However, demand for XP has remained. In April, Dell brought XP back as an
| option even on consumer PCs.
|
| There is an issue, though, over how long PC makers can keep selling machines
| with Windows XP as the preloaded operating system. Microsoft is requiring
| large PC makers to stop selling XP-based systems as of January 31, though
| some PC makers would like to sell XP machines for longer.
|
| "We're all lobbying for it," Farris said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6209481.html
EU victory leaves questions for Vista
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| European antitrust regulators' victory over Microsoft was a resounding smack
| at the software maker's old business practices, but it left analysts divided
| as to how the company's new businesses, including Windows Vista, might be
| affected.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_hi_te/eu_microsoft_vista
Vista burns laptop hard disks - Failure eight times higher than under XP
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| The hard disk’s temperature can get ten degrees higher than the vendors’
| specifications allow. This could cause hard disk failures eight times more
| frequent than with XP.
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http://4sysops.com/archives/vista-burns-laptop-hard-disks-failure-eight-times-higher-than-under-xp/
http://tinyurl.com/3ytdtj
The Death of Windows Vista Extras
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| The bottom line is that the Ultimate Extras team has gone underground.
| Microsoft cannot expect Ultimate users to survive on a preview of Windows
| DreamScene with an outdated Content Pack and two Windows Vista wallpapers.
| For $399, Microsoft has to cough up palpable results.
|
| But so far, all is dead on the Ultimate Extras front. Even the blog went
| quiet after mid March, and I have a feeling that silence from the Ultimate
| Extras team is not what Ultimate users want to "hear."
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Death-of-Windows-Vista-Extras-57300.shtml
Nine burning questions about how Vista is really doing
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| Instead, there's so much spin -- from Microsoft, from rivals such
| as Apple Inc., from market analysts pushing research and more research
| -- it would even leave Sasha Cohen dizzy. Here's our attempt to unravel
| this puzzle-shrinkwrapped-in-a-mystery.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9021838
http://tinyurl.com/2u6gzq
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