Tag: Vista

  • Worldwide Telescope launches half-baked!

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    Microsoft launched their much-hyped WorldWide Telescope this morning. The application has a lot of promise as an educational tool, in that it can make astronomy fun and engaging. First off, there is no Mac version. Boo! For this reason alone, I should have just walked away. But I didn’t because it promised so much and…

  • Microsoft Vista performance issues

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    Vista is buggy. That much is obvious to anyone who runs it but it has been improving in stability as the patches are rolled out. However it runs extremely slowly too and this became startlingly obvious to me in the last few weeks as I have been testing browsers on different platforms. It turns out…

  • Screaming fast browser II

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    I wrote a post the other day giving speeds of various browsers running the SunSpider JavaScript Benchnark tests. Since writing the post Firefox has released Firefox 3.0b3 and Robert made me aware in the comments of the previous browser speed post that Opera 9.5 beta was released so I decided to check those two browsers…

  • Screaming fast browser?

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    After reading Seth Weintraub’s post on how the upcoming versions of Safari are blisteringly fast I decided to download the latest nightly (WebKit r30123) and check it out for myself. To check the different browser versions I used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. The results were pretty amazing – on Vista the performance times came in…

  • Microsoft will Open Source Windows (or die!)

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    I have said on a number of occasions that Microsoft should Open Source their Windows Operating System (and their Internet Explorer). However, it bears repeating. I realise it is unlikely to happen in the near term but, I firmly believe it will happen in the not-too-distant future (when Microsoft realises that they can’t compete with…

  • Backup software for Vista?

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    I want to install a copy of Ubuntu on my laptop. However, when Vista was installed on it, a single partition was made of the hard drive so if I try to install Ubuntu now, it will overwrite the Vista partition (I assume, anyone knowing better, feel free to jump in!). I presume that what…

  • I have a dirty little secret to confess

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    I never thought I’d say this but I’m using my Vista machine more than my Mac these days! Why? Well, there are a number of reasons – the Vista machine is a Vaio SZ3. It is small, light and has a significantly better battery life than my 15′ MacBook Pro so I’m far more likely…

  • Microsoft post Vista fixes

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    Microsoft has released two significant fixes for Windows Vista today. One is a performance related fix and the other is a reliability related fix. These fixes have to be manually applied for now although according to Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is promising to make the two new Vista fix packs available via Windows Update at…