Pcmagazine have got their hands on the latest windows vista build – 5308
“We’ve been running this latest release, build 5308, for a couple of days now, getting a feel for its capabilities while Microsoft prepared to make it available to the community of MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscribers, TechNet users, and registered beta testers. Our […]
Paul Thurrott has some interesting screenshots of the office 12 programs running on Microsoft Windows Vista. He even included some of the new onenote program which looks pretty cool.
‘In an era of increased competition from OpenOffice.org and StarOffice 8, critics had charged that there was very little anyone could do with an office productivity suite. […]
Epic Empire talk about how CrystalXP has created a vista look-a-like theme for windows xp. So, if you want to experience the vista look now and cant wait for Microsoft to release it next year. Well you need to join the club but you can alleviate some of the pain and frustration during the waiting […]
Longhorn Preview by Scott Spanbauer in the pcworld
The newest versions of the next Windows add graphics sizzle and more search features but lack visible productivity enhancements.
The most recent build of Longhorn–Microsoft’s next Windows–has some impressive visual touches, including the kinds of translucent objects found now in Apple’s OS X, and more powerful ways of finding […]
Well, every other blogger has announced the news and frankly how remiss would it be for a blog titled geekyinfo not to mention it:
On Friday, July 22, 2005, Microsoft announced that Longhorn would be named Windows Vista!
Thanks to Download Squad for the image
Longhorn design goals
Stephan told conference attendees that Longhorn will:
launch applications 15 percent faster than Windows XP does
boot PCs 50 percent faster than they boot currently and will allow PCs to resume from standby in two seconds
allow users to patch systems with 50 percent fewer reboots required
reduce the number of system […]
Leighton Tebay, a good friend of mine who recently braved the weather of Australia and stayed for a couple of weeks at our place, has put his blog up for ridcule and spite and blogged about the big issue of our times. And so the debate continues….
It is all about value. I administer 3 different […]
A nice heads up here on pics showing Internet explorer 7
I was randomly browsing Flickr, and I typed in “microsoft” as a tag to search. I was amazed to find IE7 pictures running on Longhorn that were uploaded today!
I found the images on Niall Kennedy’s Flickr Images. According to his website, Niall is a community […]
OS X for x86 already in the wild?
Engadget has posted that there are rumours around that the OS X for Intel based PC machines is out and about in warez and p2p world. However, judging by the comments it seems that people are finding it hard to find leading many to say that it is […]
Seems that Microsoft read my post on how longhorn must look very cool This post by Kozman Online gives some interesting detail on Longhorn as it was revealed at the recent 2005 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
The OS’s new graphics engine, code-named Avalon, uses the power of today’s graphics chips to produce stunning effects, such […]