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Microsoft to kill support for Vista SP1 YAWN No-one cares.

Steven — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:25:54 +0000

Thanks to the never ending vigilance of Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web we learned that as of July 12, 2011 Microsoft will be no longer offering support for Vista with Service Pack 1 installed. This means no more security related updates but if you insist on running Vista you will be advised to upgrade to Service Pack 2 so that you will still have some sort of support.

However that won’t last long as support for all versions of Vista will cease in April 2012 and unlike XP I doubt there will be any reprieves, especially with Windows 8 just around the courner.

That said .. why is anyone in their right mind even still using Vista since any machine that will run that hog of an OS will scream with Windows 7 installed.

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Priceless Microsoft Moments: Windows Vista Fails

Steven — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:20:26 +0000

Yes live television is rough and for Microsoft it didn’t help that they were trying to show off a feature of Vista; but then this is something that the company should be use to by now considering how many of their live demos have failed in the past.

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Priceless Microsoft Moments: Vista SP1 Music Video

Steven — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:58:12 +0000

I don’t even know where to start with this one. I mean I get that Microsoft can do some wacky stuff once in a while but riffing on Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen in an internal Microsoft video is beyond wacky.

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Remember Longhorn? This is what the dream was suppose to be

Steven — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:34:30 +0000

I remember when all the information was coming out about the next version of Windows, codenamed: Longhorn. For all that made its way into blogs and the mainstream press there really isn’t that much out there about what Longhorn was going to bring to the table.

To help refresh your memories here’s a nice video showing off Longhorn.

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Tides a changin’ – Windows 7 is going to take over

Kristina Farrah — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:00:34 +0000

Despite all cynical and unenthusiastic speculations of Windows 7′s failure to compete with XP, and its being another Black Screen issue, a full year of probation has cleared all doubts. Windows 7 is a hit, and XP is expected to retire this coming 2014.

ZDNet’s Ed Bott provides some interesting figures about Windows 7. It was released August of last year with only a very small segment who dared to participate in its try-out period. Users normally wouldn’t take the risk, let alone big corporations, but those who did in fact take the risk determined it was worth it.

With many positive reviews and comments from the media and users themselves every month, Microsoft has sold 100 million copies last Spring, and it rose to 175 million this July. Microsoft is expecting a sale of 30 million copies per month, with a total of 350 million by the end of the year. That’s a huge figure.

XP and Vista users are now outnumbered by Windows 7. Those using Vista were ready to take the upgrade in the first place. At the moment, XP users went down to 40% of all the Windows users. The release of Windows 7 also seem to have affected the performance of Mac OS X as it dropped from 8% back to it’s rate as of December 2008 of 5% tops.

Six months after its release, Windows 7 has already powered 7.4% of corporate computers. It has an average increase of 1.25% every month. Another positive sign is that huge corporations who are always unwilling to take the risk of changing their corporate OS are shifting to Windows 7 a lot faster than it did during XP and Vista’s transfer periods, in fact, twice as fast compared to Vista’s.

If the adoption rate of Windows 7 continues at a stable rate 1.5% per month, it will overtake Windows XP in 2014. To make the long story short, XP’s reign is over. On the mobile front, Windows 7 has high expectations as well, with even more goodies awaiting Windows 8.

This article was originally written by Kristina Farrah Kaye Asia and posted at SiliconAngle. Syndicated with permission.

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What people are missing about the “Apple’s Vista moment” comment

Steven — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:36:12 +0000

First off I just want to say that like Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web I think it is refreshing to see upper management types at Microsoft getting enough confidence and backbone to do some real smack talking.

I am of course talking about the statement made by Michael Turner at the Worldwide Partners Conference were he said:

“It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their [Apple's] Vista, and I’m okay with that.”

Of course the typical reaction by the Apple heavy tech blogosphere has been one of condescension and smack talk of their own. Alex is one of the few who has come out and basically said right on Microsoft:

What Microsoft will do to smooth this over remains to be seen, but it is refreshing to see Redmond talk some smack against Cupertino. I mean, this is some backbone at long last.

First off though I don’t want to have Microsoft try an smooth anything over. Let the statement stand as is – there is nothing wrong with it.

More interestingly though is that is one of the first times that I have seen any of the Microsoft management team publicly acknowledge in this way that yes Vista was a turning point for the company, which really is what this statement is saying.

Every company needs a wake-up call at some point. Apple’s just might be the iPhone 4 and their belief that design will always trump engineering. The whole iPhone mess might be a bump in Apple’s roadmap but they will recover from it.

Vista was Microsoft’s and until this statement they pretty did their best to sidestep that bump without having to admit to it. So it is nice to see that; at least to some degree, the company is willing to face up to what went wrong and now go about and fix it.

Not to mention the fact that some good smack talk never hurt anyone.

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