Intel decides to give Vista a miss

 

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Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system. According to insiders the company made its decision after a lengthy analysis by its internal technology staff of the costs and potential benefits of moving to Windows Vista, which has drawn fire from many customers as a buggy, bloated program that requires costly hardware upgrades to run smoothly.

“This isn’t a matter of ditching Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,” the person said. An Intel spokesman said the company was testing and deploying Vista in certain departments, but not across the company. Intel’s decision is certain to sting Microsoft because the two companies have worked closely to align hardware and software from the earliest days of the personal computer. Indeed, the corporate duo is known as “Wintel” in the PC industry.

When a company as tech savvy as Intel, with full source code access and having written several large chunks of the OS, says no thank you, you know you have a problem. Well, everyone knows Microsoft has a problem, but it is nice to see it codified in such a black and white way though. Reassuring, like a warm cup of tea, or a public kick to the corporate crown jewels.

The Inquirer, a London-based technology website, was the first one to report Intel’s decision not to roll out Vista across the entire company. Intel is hardly alone in its reluctance to embrace Microsoft’s latest operating system, which was available to corporate customers in November 2006 and to consumers in January 2007. Large companies routinely hold off a year or so after a new version of Windows is introduced before adopting it, waiting for initial bugs to be eliminated and for applications to be written. “But by 18 months, you’d expect to see a significant uptake, and we haven’t seen that,” said David Smith, a Gartner analyst. “There’s not much excitement.”

His Gartner colleague, Michael Silver, said that about 30 percent of corporate customers skip any given new version of Windows. But the percentage will be higher for Vista, Mr. Silver predicted. Gartner’s corporate clients that plan to skip Vista, like Intel, do not see value of this upgrade, particularly since it requires new PC hardware at the time when the economy is weak and corporate budgets are tight. In the end, you have Intel flipping MS the bird, and telling them what they already know, Vista in undeployable by anyone with a grain of common sense.

There are more than 140 million copies of Vista installed on machines worldwide. Consumers and small businesses simply get the operating system that is on a new machine when they buy a PC, and that is Vista. Meanwhile, the Microsoft operating system engine chugs on, phasing out the old and proclaiming the new. The company reiterated this week that, despite some customer protests, it would halt shipments of the previous version of Windows, XP, to retail stores and stop most licensing of XP to PC makers next week. Microsoft also announced that the next version of its operating system, Windows 7, is scheduled to go on sale in January 2010.

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How to Restore Previous Versions of Files in Vista

Taking backup of files is a good idea to protect your data but what rolling back your files to a particular version. Windows Vista has a very good feature that allow users to rollback files to any previous version of file. Vista users can think this as an undo button that can reach all the way back to a file’s creation.

  • Right click on any file.
  • Select Restore previous versions to access the automatically created backups.

And all done.

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How Vista is Different From Windows XP

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How to extend Vista grace period to 120 days

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Tracing the Path from Windows Success to Impending Collapse

microsoft_windows_logo_readerszone Tracing the Path from Windows Success to Impending Collapse Microsoft Windows Operating System is the world’s most widely used operating system. It is easy to use as compared to other operating systems like Linux or Mac, and this made it immensely popular. More than 20 years after its first release, researchers now predict the collapse of the Windows OS within the next two years.

I was curious to know what makes people talk about Windows collapsing. I did some spadework and dug into the Window’s success story. Here is what I discovered.

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Free Vista Firewall

windows_Vista_logo_readerszone Free Vista FirewallA firewall is a dedicated appliance, or software running on another computer, which inspects network traffic passing through it, and denies or permits passage based on a set of rules.[According to Wikipedia] Windows Vista comes with a free firewall but this pre-installed firewall not offer many customization options. However if you need a more control over the application like which application is trying to access the Internet then you need a firewall that offer you a better level of customization.

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Windows Meeting Space

Windows Meeting place allows Windows Vista users to a face-to-face collaboration among small groups of windows vista users. It is completely different from the Microsoft Office Live meeting office live meeting is a browser based application and runs over the server where as the Windows Meeting palace is a peer to peer application and does not require any server installation.
Setting up the Meeting: Setting up the meeting is very easy. One person initiates a session in Windows Meeting Space. This sets up the meeting session and enables the organizer to invite attendees and send them the password to use for the session. Others can join it, share files, or see the same view of a program or desktop and collaborate in real time.
Discovering sessions and people near you: You can easily discover the sessions occurring nearby on a local network or on private ad hoc (PC-to-PC) wireless networks. You can also invite other network people to join you for the meeting. You can invite remote participants via e-mail or a file, if your network supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) global connectivity. When potential participants receive an e-mail invitation, they only have to click it and enter the password established by the session creator.

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