Microsoft wraps up Vista update
The update provides, among other things support for Bluetooth 2.1, an updated Windows search technology and the ability to natively record data to Blu-ray discs.
In a blog posting, the company said the update should be publicly available later this quarter. Microsoft is also ending a blocker tool that prevented computers from downloading Vista Service Pack 1, so those customers who had been using the tool will now see Vista SP1 offered via Windows Update.
The update has been in broad testing since late last year. A near-final release candidate version was issued in February.
Microsoft said earlier in the day that it was releasing the second service pack update to Office 2007. Windows Vista and Office 2007 had their mainstream launch on the same day in January 2007.
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it as Windows 7...
This is a scam! DOJ what they heck are you doing?
LMAO.........."throwing their money through Window 7".
When it comes to the sys requirements, sure its a change of pace from ms but really, was anyone expecting to run this thing on a Pentium 3? and 256MB of ram, come on... When it comes to 7
I've seen the screenshots and well it looks like MS has photocopied the MAC OSX dock with a 50% accuracy otherwise they'd get sued the pants off by jobs and his compadres, im glad they god rid of the sidebar as it leaked memory, even on sp1, i detest MEDIA PLAYER 12, it looks, well.. hideous, the fact that they stripped it to the bone, im happy about but to answer your question with a question...
WHO'S FORCING U TO UPGRADE MATE?
PS: The only reason vista felt rushed was that when they built the mosnter atop of xp, and looked at it, they saw the abomination and tore it down, and reset on the WINDOWS SERVER 2003 SP2 Core, so it could be granulized (at the install level) , WINDOWS 7 adds thsi to the feature level.
Sincerely
My 2 cents worth on the vista shinanigans
PSS: I own 3 wonderful VISTA SP1 Machines which are nothing short of awesome!
i have two vista machines & they both run flawlessly! but I have to admit win7 is better. i'm rather curious to see what the "get-a-mac" ads will hav to say on that one...hmmm...? in the mean time...i'm counting down to win7 release, & a new laptop too :)
- OS Bloat, why buy new machines and get worse performance than XP on a machine with half the specs.
- UAC nagware
- backwards compatibility... with both hardware and software (When XP came out you could use W2K drivers if there wasn't any XP ones ready). Major programs wouldn't work... think AutoCad
- Poorly planed out UI. People were used to finding programs in generally the same place and Microsoft in their wisdom decided to rename and move !@#$ all over the place for no apparent reason.
The apple ads only brought to light problems that window users were experience in a humorous way... they didn't cause the problem. Out of all the people I know only ONE person likes vista, all the others would trade their machines for an XP machine if they could... Vista has almost been out for three years... and it STILL doesn't have half the users as XP does.
Talked to my cousin the other week and she works at a major office supply store in their computer department... she said that more people have returned machines because of Vista frustrations than any other release of Windows...
What will Apple do when windows 7 is released? pretty simple they will just show people that it is Vista repackaged.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/153624/under_the_hood_windows_7_is_vistas_twin.html
And why oh why would MS work on SP3 for Vista? There are clearly companies out there running Vista who may want the upgrade. And of course this could be the last of the major SP's for Vista post Windows 7.
Your slip is showing. Let me just repackage my last response to that nonsensical link you posted:
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Based on the working set (memory) and thread count of the kernel, we're supposed to conclude that Vista and Win7 are the same?? ***?
Educate yourself man:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Mark-Russinovich-Inside-Windows-7/
(If you don't want to use silverlight, select a different fromat from the drop-down just below the video).
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And the last time I posted it, you dismissed the link as MS propaganda. You should think twice before you dismiss mark russinovich (of sony rootkit discovery fame) thusly.
The dock used in windows 7 is actually taken more from windows 3.1 if you google images of it you'll notice it has a dock. In an interview with a Microsoft employee which I believe was feature on lifehacker some time ago, they explained how they were going back and reviving the idea they used for the taskbar back on windows 3.1; Windows 3.1 was out before Mac ever used a dock. Windows 3.1 was out in 1992 however, the first Macintosh dock came with Mac OSX which was in 2001.
I may be wrong on some of this but I believe for the most part that it's accurate.
Vista didn't fail as bad as you or any other say it did:
XP was king for like 5+ years. After many updates and improvements pretty much the whole Galaxy used XP @ one point (before Vista and OSX) SO NATURALLY all the programs, businesses, little green Aliens adopted to XP. And Microsoft SLEPT!
So then they came up with Vista, A completely new (better) operating system, BUT nobody [ not businesses, not programs, not the computer hardware, green aliens ] were fully prepared for the switch!
So why did people switch to XP from previous windows so much easily??? SIMPLE ANSWER ----- Time!
XP came not too long after 2000, and even then A large portion of people were on Win98, so there was a BIGGER migration from 2000 & 98 to XP .... than the migration from XP to Vista.
It is much harder to--Businesses, programs, THOSE GREEN ALIENS--to adopt a new system when they are so used to their old system, and when they have used it for so long.
Microsoft's whole line with 7 is "Yes, we got Vista wrong, we fixed it". Given the feedback and general reports I've seen (do I ever not have the time to BETA test) this is absolutely the case.
So, given that MS have admitted they screwed up in a lot of ways where Vista's concerned, where do you get off trying to make out that it's everyone else's fault? Who are you anyway?
Oh, and in answer the the dumbest question ever "WHO'S FORCING U TO UPGRADE MATE?":
My old laptop died.
My computer wasn't powerful enough any more and needed replacing.
Those are the two primary reasons and, please, don't ******** abou 'downgrade rights', how many people outside the IT community even know about those? Hmmm?
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Allchin urged Gates to create and enforce architectural and coding standards, automate testing to verify that the standards were met, and generally take an extremely (for MS) rigorous approach. The expected battle ensued , Gates worrying about creativity, but Allchin was eventually able to persuade Gates to support the move to rigor. The alternative was no Vista at all.
By that time Vista was very late. MS decided that it was more important to quickly get out what they could using the new environment than to begin again from a blank slate and add a lot more time to a badly-delayed project.
So we have an OS that nearly failed entirely - rescued at the last minute by a remarkable staff who were focusing on a new archictectural approach, new coding standards, new tools, and a culture in transition. So there was a lot that just didn't get done (or re-done) properly.
We are beginning to see the impact of the new approach in Windows 7. It appears to be on time, more efficient, more stable, more modular, more secure, and does all that without an immediate requirement for more hardware or CPU cycles.
Please remember that it was Allchin who wrote the famous "Microsoft lost its way" memo, noting that he'd buy an Apple if he were in the market at that time. He retired when Vista was released and pretty much vanished. Too bad.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpcustom=Windows+Vista
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Mac
you have any sources that Microsoft said that Vista failed?? maybe a non MAC website please!
Can Microsoft rename Windows 7 into Windows XP SE or something like that. Like revolution and special operating system? I want to see how things change in the future!
Do not buy Vista! NEVER buy Vista and you lost your money and waste your time to become angry like complaint! Please keep eye on Google and how to manage your mind more better learn from many features and list on them.
I heard new Service Pack 4 will release out for Windows XP around this end of year or next year. Both are update and ISO (CD image with full update inside) for your Windows XP operating system to upgrade more stable like Blu-Ray or higher(support 500 GB on single disc), USB 3.0, BlueTooth 3.0, SDHC (support up to 32 GB on any digital camera memory cards) and keep go on.
I keep eye on Google News forever! I don't want miss many new things are more value for me to learn many new things come out.
Furthermore, I am glad that Microsoft has decided to eliminate the legacy code. The handful of people who want to run legacy applications can do so through virtualization. There doesn't seem much reason of why an OS should need GBs worth of compatibility layers that will rarely get used.
Since XP no longer is getting non-security updates the chance that there will be an SP4 is virtually nil for XP.
also REALLY looking forward for them to develop "Good touch screen hardware" for me to get Win7 when it comes!
For consumers who use XP on new non-netbook machines: LOL! Welcome to 2009, retards.
For existing consumers and businesses who use XP: Fair enough but of no interest to us yet.
For people who use OS X: What are you doing in this topic?
For people who use Linux: Oh shut up. Both of you.
Think that covers it.
"For people who use Linux: Oh shut up. Both of you.",
Very nice! Now make sure your brace yourself for the factoids coming that show there are more than 2. Damn, they will be correct too. Missing the humour and the point entirely.
And because I've never posted here before... I'll throw in a quicky about MS and open source. If it wasn't for MS, IBM would be running your SHT entirely. Apple would still be second with a great piece of software, well designed and as rigid as hell in it's requirements for developers (this is a great plus, advantage and hinderence). For you factoids and fanboys of OS and Apple (which I have no problems with at all), why don't you actually think about the MS approach past and present/future rather than bashing. If it wasn't for the even empire, your access to everything would be different and more costly. For those that think for a second that if Apple had been able to win the PCs wars of the 80s and 90s, it wouldn't be the evil empire.... LOL @ you.
Thanx Mark!!!!!!!!!!
OK... that's my years of trolling first Rant.
MS just got lucky that they made a deal for the one computer that was going to be copied all over the world (and weren't they the second choice as well? Something about the first choice being unavailable for talks?).
Or it was because they had the sense to realize it was about software not hardware.
Yes, what they've done with the opportunity that fell in their lap is creditworthy but they'd never have got where they are today without one extremely lucky break.
After all, Richard Stallman realised at an earlier date that it was about software, not hardware. I don't see you singing his praises.
If it wasn't for the fact that MS invested in Apple in the late 80s/90s in cash and products, the beatdown that Apple had received to that point would have been fatal. Make no mistake about it, at that point MS saved Apple. For purely selfish reasons IMO (think AntiT), but nonetheless.
- by TheDeadGuy_88 April 29, 2009 6:32 PM PDT
- It seems that whenever a microsoft articles comes up it's the "EVILZ M$" or "VISTA SUX" comments that clog up the review thread. As for Vista myself, I'll admit that I've only recently got it- a student deal let me get Ultimate SP1 for only $80 AU. I heard about the bad driver compatibility but it seems to be resolved. Vista runs better than XP for me, looks and feels nicer and it's not THAT hard to find your way around the new configuration. UAC is annoying, yeah, but not that hard to switch it off.
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(43 Comments)Plus, they fixed up the Windows Search function so that it's actually useful. Say what you want about XP, the indexing and search functions sucked.
Say what you want about Vista, I'll probably ignore it. It works well for me, plays my games a tad better than XP and I haven't had a BSOD once when compared to XP. I also remember when XP came out and the struggle it went through until they fixed out the bugs. I'd say the same with ME...but, yeah, we all know that that was a bad idea. Say what you want about Microsoft as well, but a 90% market share is still a 90% marketshare at the end of the day.
Anyway, about the article. Cool, a new Service Pack sounds great. I love the news about improving the search. Like I said, I'm a big fan of the Vista search menu and I rarely use desktop icons anymore, clutters up my awesome backgrounds.