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Mac OS X Offers 2x Battery Life than Vista or Windows 7
I’m not a fan of Macs generally speaking, but due to recent realizations that Microsoft was never going to create an operating system that didn’t share fundamental behaviors with all past and present versions of Windows — I’ve decided to jump ship and get a computer that will “just work”. Keep in mind I don’t [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Will Never Understand Usability – Vista Device Driver Security Example
Monday, November 17, 2008
We took our first look at Microsoft’s inbility to create something genuinely useful and a minature review of Vista when we evaluated Windows Vista Backup at the beginning of the year. The premise of that article being that by evaluating a single program, and all the usability/functionality flaws it had, you got an impression of [...]
Continue reading...Simple Virtual Desktops on Vista – Desktops 1.0 Released
Friday, August 22, 2008
Virtual Desktops in Vista has been a sore point for massive multi-taskers since Linux made virtual desktops cool 114 years ago and Apple took it mainstream with OS X 10.5 and Spaces. We’ve been on the hunt for a good Virtual Desktop application for Vista for quite a while; we wrote about Vista/XP Virtual Desktop Manager [...]
Continue reading...Getting Virtual / Multiple Desktops on Windows (XP and Vista)
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Have you ever found yourself juggling so many extra windows at work (or at home) on your desktop that you wished you have access to multiple desktops so you could group them together and not clutter one desktop with everything? Yea, me too… Linux has had the idea of “multiple desktops” or “virtual desktops” for a [...]
Continue reading...Legit Vista Crack (OEM Emulation) Released
Monday, March 3, 2008
APC reports that a legit Vista crack has made it’s way out in the form of an OEM emulator. Apparently Microsoft does not require activation from machines with Vista on them from some OEM partners (See above screenshot) and the crack takes advantage of that. Also… for the folks reading this, “legit Vista crack” doesn’t mean [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Vista (Backup) Review: A Lesson in Stupidity
Friday, February 15, 2008
Update #1:We’ve added another article evaluating the stupidity that is Microsoft and Vista by analyzing the Device Driver Security dialog as well. The reason Apple and Mac OS X are so famous is only because Microsoft exists. … don’t skip past that first sentence… it really sums up the rest of this review and explains to you, [...]
Continue reading...Create Customized Windows Vista ISO with vLite
Monday, January 28, 2008
For the folks that have used nLite with Windows XP and love it, stop right there… vLite is for Vista and works just as awesome. For folks that have no idea what nLite or vLite are, they are these badass programs written by Dino Nuhagic that are used to take the install files for Windows XP [...]
Continue reading...Is 64-bit Vista Stable And Why Should I Care?
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
If your a Mac person your not going to care either way, but for you Windows user 64-bit Vista has some things to offer…… A 64-bit computer can theoretically process twice as much information as a 32-bit computer. This makes a 64-bit computer a good choice if you’re working with video, large database searches, or games [...]
Continue reading...Plays (Not So) For Sure
Monday, January 14, 2008
I noticed last week that I haven’t seen much of the “Plays for Sure” program around anymore. It seems that Microsoft has left all the 3rd party vendors out in the cold and is now embracing “Certified for Windows Vista”. The Plays for Sure program was a certification prosses that started in 2004 [...]
Continue reading...Windows Vista HDMI DRM Fucks All DRM’ed Media
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Laurence Hartje sends in a link to a story that is pure-suck… The gist of this (as I understand it) is that in Windows Vista, the new DRM functionality in the operating system is universal and tied to the hardware. More specifically, if you purchase movies while a monitor with a specific HDMI signature is attached [...]
Continue reading...Get Windows Vista Ultimate for Free
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Brad Agdern just sent in a cool bit of news for folks that aren’t privacy aficionados. If you don’t mind Microsoft monitoring your computer usage for 3 months (I’m not sure of how detailed the monitoring is… but my guess is that it covers everything you are doing, sites you browse to, files you open, [...]
Continue reading...Windows Vista SP1, Positive Impressions
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Well the tides are starting to turn… it seems hot on the heels of the public SP1 RC announcement, ZDNet is reporting some good things about SP1, including some nice network performance improvements (they claim 300% increase):
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