ITsVISTA Web Links: October 23rd, 2007

Windows Vista no more secure than XP: report

The report may not be completely fair, but it does point out that Vista’s new security model isn’t a “slam dunk”.

(tags: Security Review )
Windows Vista Team Blog : Partners helping fix Vista Software Compatibility Issues

Tools are now available that can help with making legacy applications work with Vista.

(tags: Compatibility Software )
The Magic Desktop is now available!

You can get a pretty crazy looking interface with this tool, which is now Vista compatable.

(tags: GUI Software Desktop Compatibility )
Penn State Computer Labs Upgrading to Windows Vista

As I’ve been saying all along, you’ll see wide scale rollouts of Vista starting in 2008, with most universities (including ours) shooting for the fall of 2008 semester for their Vista roll outs.

(tags: PR Upgrade )
TechBlog: 10 Things Microsoft should do to fix Windows Vista

I would agree with most of the points on this list. Fix all of these and Vista would be taken far more seriously.

(tags: Review )
The Vista wow becomes a whisper

For such a huge and rich company, I’m always suprised at how poor their advertising is. ‘WOW’? How much did they pay for that? Was that from the same source that recommended a ‘Start’ menu that leads to the shutdown function?

(tags: PR Updates )