Tag: Vista
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Vista sales numbers don't add up (to much!)
Microsoft are boasting that Vista is selling twice as fast as XP did when it shipped originally. From the Microsoft release: Initial sales figures from Microsoft show its new operating system Windows Vista made a splash in its debut. In the first month of Windows Vista’s general availability, sales exceeded 20 million licenses, more than…
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My move from OS X to Vista – Day 3
I know it is a cliche that you don’t really realise just how much you love something until it is gone but I am proving that true with this move to Vista from OS X! What is it that I miss so much? Exposé! Exposé is a fabulous, much underrated feature of OS X whereby…
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My move from OS X to Vista – Day 2
It is taking me a while to get into this Vista machine. On the Mac, I live in browsers (I generally have 4 running) and email. The browsers on Vista are pretty much the same as they are on the Mac but the email experience is very different. The main choices I have for email…
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Another Vista bug?
I have discovered another issue with Vista which may well be a bug. If not, then the OS is certainly not behaving as expected. On a pc the standard key combo for switching between apps and windows is Alt + Tab. Vista is no different. On holding down Alt and pressing Tab you are presented…
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Switching from OS X to Vista (kinda)
Microsoft gave me a Sony Vaio laptop with Vista Ultimate and Office Ultimate installed to try out. I have been toying with the Vaio but not using it heavily. To be fair to Microsoft, I’m going to try to switch as much as possible of my work from my MacBook Pro to the Vaio to…
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Apple takes the pi** out of Vista' incessant security warnings!
UPDATE: This video has been taken down from YouTube, There is a version of it on the Mac site here (.mov) and there are two similar ads on this page on the Apple site.
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Too much choice is not (always) a bad thing
Joel Spolsky has written an interesting critique of Windows Vista where he points out that there are up to 15 ways to turn a Windows Vista computer off (I can think of a 16th – don’t license it and Windows will automatically disable your computer!). He goes on to suggest ways to trim the number…