Posts Tagged ‘vista

21Sep

Steve Ballmer: I’m a PC

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Welcome back!
And that helps selling Vista…?
Seriously, you might think about bringing Seinfeld back….
Oh, and one more thing: the videos were done on a Mac with Adobe software!

17Jan

Palm Desktop 6.2 for Vista finally released

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Via DownloadSquad:
Palm Desktop 6.2 for Vista finally released
All told, Palm Desktop 6.2 is probably a crucial update for anyone running Vista.
Is anybody still using that at all…?

06Dec

Vista pirated half as much as XP

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Says Engadget.
Then again, it’s also bought a lot less.
Hey, Microsoft – maybe that’s because it’s not even good enough to be pirated…? Just a thought ;)

22Mar

Download the Vista wallpapers

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Hamad Darwish is one of the few photographers commissioned by Microsoft in 2005 to shoot photos to be used in Windows Vista’s Wallpaper Collection.
He’s now offering a ZIP file with *all* the background images for download. You want those, believe me (30 MB download). Go get them!

15Mar

Vista: Bitlocker provides easy crypto for outlaws

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Jeff unfortunately fell for the old argument that cryptography helps outlaws (or terrorists) hide criminal activity.
The article he cites says:
“The bad news, at least for intelligence personnel, is that the bad guys will have convenient access to this easy-to-use encryption technology. There has been encryption technology like this available for years, but it was hard [...]

27Feb

Vista fosters creativity

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

At least amongst bloggers: Chalain tells us what it feels like to upgrade
“I wake. For a moment, I stare at the ceiling trying to remember something. Something important. Something important happened last night, but the details escape me. Something fascinating yet sinister, like touring the CIA offices. Something exotic yet somehow familiar, like putting hot [...]

10Feb

Vista: Voice recognition not a security issue

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Ok, seems I have been a little premature here saying that Vista’s voice recognition could be mis-used by a malicious MP3 file to do bad things.
Seems it’s not that easy after all:

01Feb

Vista security

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Jim Allchin says “buy Vista for the security”.
Microsoft seems to have put a lot of effort into making Vista the most secure Windows OS ever, they even asked the NSA for help.
I have been following the blogs over the first few days after the official launch now, and there’s one common theme I can identify [...]


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