firingsquad.com - 1/24/2009
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Windows 7 Beta Performance Preview Since its release, Windows Vista has gotten a fair share of controversy and criticism. The move to a new driver model rendered many legacy hardware products, like printers and scanners, obsolete while the Vista-only DirectX 10 API has never quite lived up to ...
Windows 7 Beta takes another crown, besting Vista in SSD performance
engadget.com 1/22/2009 —
It's no huge surprise, since Microsoft was planning on improving performance on this front , but now we've got some of our first solid numbers on Windows 7 Beta SSD performance. Nothing crazy spectacular, but Windows 7 looks to have a slight edge ...
Microsoft Windows 7 Beta: Like Vista Only Better
xbitlabs.com 1/30/2009 — In our today's article we are going to discuss new functions, options and distinguishing features of the new Microsoft operating system. We will compare it side by side with Windows Vista in our functionality and performance investigation.
Windows 7 less annoying, but also less secure? —
APH Networks
From CNET News.com: Microsoft's efforts to make Windows 7 less annoying than Vista may also be making it less secure than its predecessor.
With Windows Vista, the operating system popped up a warning any time a major change was being made to the system, whether by the OS or by a ...
Windows Vista SP2 RC may be in the hands of testers as we speak —
Engadget
Sure, the big hubbub's been Windows 7 (give us some time and we'll figure out how to install it on a toaster !) but Microsoft is betting that quite a few folks will be stranded in Vistaland (Vista Town? Vista Village? The dreaded Vista Flats?) for some time to come, and they'll need provisions ...
ATI Catalyst 9.1 Display Driver for Windows Vista —
DriverHeaven.net
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
With some ATI Radeon adapters and Windows Vista 64 systems with more than 4 GB of system ...
How To Install Windows XP Over Vista —
PCs Place
Installing Windows Vista over Windows XP is pretty simple. But If you are a XP lover like me, you can even Install Windows XP over Windows Vista . One way of doing this is a clean install of XP which is done by formatting the drive and installing a fresh copy of XP over it. The other way is as ...
Testers get RC-Escrow build of SP2 for Vista and Server 2008 —
Ars Technica
Microsoft has sent out an e-mail to testers announcing that the RC-Escrow build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is available for download. The company is letting testers grab it via Windows Update (available this Thursday in available languages of Vista ...
The week in Microsoft: the media finds out about Windows 7 —
Ars Technica
In this week's top Microsoft news, we cover the Windows 7 taskbar, marketing Windows 7, the media and Windows 7, a potential software center for Windows, Windows Mobile 6.5, SP2 for Vista and Server 2008 R2, the youngest MCP, Windows 7 and SSDs, Microsoft and Obama's inauguration, and tweaks in ...
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