With a brand new system I decided to enter the Vista club. The trouble was, I did not know which Vista I wanted to get. Budget was not a problem, I had set enough aside for Vista Ultimate. That after all is what I really wanted to test. Though I will admit, Home Premium would have sufficed. My system shipped with 2GB of RAM, I wanted 4GB, but the component upgrade was a little more than I would be happy to pay. The system was cheaper than I could possibly build though. For 2GB of RAM 32Bit would be the logical choice, and for 4GB many would think the same. Most do not realize that a 32Bit system will not use all of 4GB of RAM. It can support it but it cannot use it. I had heard warnings and horror stories relating to the 64Bit version, so I was a little apprehensive. I figured that it should be alright, since most of the software that I plan to be using is very modern. The only concern I had was over my printer, which turned out to be unfounded. It all worked. There was one old program that failed to load, but I didn’t lose too much sleep over it.
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2007: All About Windows Vista
Looking back on 2007, I’m struck by how much Windows Vista was the story of the year — and not always in a positive way.I’m working on my annual round up of “Top 10″ Microsoft happenings from the past year. Almost everything on my short list involves Vista in some way. Sure, Redmond also made its biggest acquisition ever with aQuantive, cleaned house on the search side of its business, launched a “big-ass table” (aka: Microsoft Surface) and lost its European Union (EU) antitrust decision appeal.
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Top 5 Things Microsoft Must Fix In Windows Vista In 2008
With Vista’s first service pack due for wide release early next year, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is intent on addressing the many things which need to be fixed in its still-young operating system. The question is, are they going to fix the right things? I think not, since the problems this time ’round aren’t bugs so much as performance. Read on for my list of five must-have Vista corrections.
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Vista migration to gather pace in 2008
As the anniversary of Windows Vista’s release to volume customers approaches, enterprise adoption of Microsoft’s latest operating system is still sparse. But many more firms now have plans to migrate in the near future, according to Forrester Research, which expects nearly a third of businesses will have begun deployment by the end of 2008, and that Vista will be on a quarter of enterprise PCs by the middle of the year.
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