Mary Jo talks about people wanting to ‘upgrade’ their Vista license to XP, and how analysts are dropping Microsoft’s earnings estimates because of the flack Vista is getting.
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A freeware program that gives you ultimate control over shutting down or restarting your Vista computer.
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Vista SP1 is not available to all languages through Windows Update, or direct download.
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Microsoft reminds us that installing an upgrade version of Vista if you do not own a full license of XP isn't legal…
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Ed offers some advice on how Microsoft should change it's Windows licensing, and they all sound great to me!
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Thinking of going 64-bit? Here's a good read. I'm running 64-bit with 8GB RAM so I can support multiple VMs at the same time.
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An easy to understand explaination of Sleep, Hibernation, and Hybrid Mode.
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Good news for Vista users that run ArcGIS
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Apple added ASLR and stack buffer safety checking to the Vista version of Quicktime to try and reduce the effectiveness of malicious exploits.
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Dr. Watson is not included in Windows Vista. The replacement for Dr. Watson is Problem Reports and Solutions. However, you cannot use Problem Reports and Solutions to create a full user-mode dump file.
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This article describes how to contact a Microsoft Product Activation Center to activate installations of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Microsoft Office suites and programs.
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Ed clarifies that just because you can still install Vista SP1 Upgrade as a fresh install, that doesn’t mean Microsoft is considering it a legal license.
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The popular tool for trimming down the size of Vista can now at least try to slipstream SP1.
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Apparently one cannot directly slip-stream SP1 into a Vista image. Instead, you must install the image, apply SP1, then recapture the image. Lame.
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Looks like Microsoft is pushing to get Vista included in movies as a subtle form of promotion.
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Built on WPF, Witty allows you to use many of Twitters features from Vista.
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For those of you with volume licensing, the full version of Vista SP1 is downloadable at <a href="http://licensing.microsoft.com
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Michael explains how to download SP1 via BitTorrent if you can’t wait until it’s officially released to everyone.
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Hackers are still finding ways to hack Vista SP1 licensing.
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More of Vista appearing in the Terminator show.
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Dwight comments on the OEM download of SP1 discovered recently.
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Someones found a place where SP1 is available for download to OEM sites. It’s a big download as it includes both the 32 and 64-bit versions.
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551 hotfixes and 23 security updates makes lots of changes…
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