IT directors have estimated that they could save hundreds of thousands of pounds through energy saving by using the green features in Windows Vista.
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Microsoft today resumed the automatic distribution of a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) prerequisite, called the Servicing Stack Update (SSU), after releasing a fix for the problem. The resumption of this download means that millions of additional Windows Vista owners will begin receiving Vista SP1 automatically via Windows Update in the days ahead.
“This update helps to ensure a smooth install of the SSU by working to prevent the system from rebooting during the SP1 SSU installation, an issue that a small number of customers experienced when they first issued the SSU in February,” a Microsoft representative said.
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Prices for the OS will be trimmed 15% to 20% in the U.S.
Microsoft Corp. is cutting the retail price of its Windows Vista operating system by as much as 20% in the U.S., but will slash at least some versions’ price tags by more than 46% in both the U.K. and the European Union, the company confirmed today.
Late Thursday, Microsoft announced sweeping price cuts to boxed copies of Vista, saying then that the cuts would range from as low as 3% in developed countries to nearly 50% for some editions sold in poorer nations.
But by the numbers that Microsoft released today, even customers in Western Europe — France, Germany, Spain and the U.K., among others — will also see prices fall by nearly half.
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