Archive for the 'vista' Category

areo glass gui for windows vista

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Microsoft developers confirm that the areo glass will be the final GUI for windows vista.
 
“Back in 2001 Microsoft’s early betas of Windows XP contained a user interface dubbed “Watercolor”.  But only months before the operating system shipped Microsoft completely replaced it with an entirely different look and feel called “Luna” which became known as “Windows […]

Microsoft anti-spyware

Monday, November 7th, 2005

thehotfix.net report that the Microsoft anti-spyware technology that previous has been called Microsoft Anti-spyware is to be called “Microsoft Windows Defender”
I have been using the anti-spyware technology and would highly recommend people download it and install it for windows machines.

 
“Over the last few months we have been working hard on creating the next version of the […]

More Bits From Windows Vista

Friday, October 21st, 2005

nternetnews has some information on a community technology review that Microsoft released recently regarding windows Vista.
‘While Microsoft cautioned that the Vista CTP is far from the final version, it includes several new features:

Desktop management tools;
Built-in diagnostics for trouble-shooting the PC, including finding memory problems and monitoring and alerting users when disk problems […]

wifi setup to be easy

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

One of my bugbears with windows XP has been how hard it is to setup and a wireless network. In particular it is difficult for the average user to place ample security on their wireless network. Many people have complained about this and it looks like Microsoft has listened – as it is very pleasing to read […]

sidebars and vista

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

vista.geekyinfo.com talks about how I feel about sidebar apps and the forthcoming one in Windows Vista.
‘I, like tipmonkies am not a big fan of sidebars. I find when I use a sidebar, it is like using a widget and I am left asking how is this adding to my computer experience. I work mostly on […]

microsoft gadgets

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Vista Geekyinfo has some information about how Microsoft will be including their own widget program in Microsoft Vista.
‘ ‘Microsoft lost the bidding war for Konfabulator, the father of widgets, to Yahoo but this didn’t stop Redmond from integrating widgets into Windows Vista. The highly anticipated OS will feature widgets that will be called Microsoft Gadgets. […]

vista.geekyinfo

Friday, October 7th, 2005

I am in the process of launching a new blog called vista.geekyinfo.
In the lead up to the release of Microsoft Vista operating system there will be many post worthy information and I will be interested in them all. So, I have decided to document what I am reading and interested in.
For some of the more […]

Vista to boot up in 2-3 seconds

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

The Microsoft web site reports that under vista your computer will boot in around 2 to 3 seconds. That is very impressive. This is likely due to the major rewrite that Windows has undergone to deliver Vista. But even so that is very impressive.
This will be great in particular for notebook and tablet pc users […]

The rundown on Internet Explorer for Vista

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Beta Life v0.1 has An interesting review of internet explorer 7. It will be interesting to see what the internet browsing experience will be like under windows Vista.
‘So this weekend I decided to test out Internet Explorer 7 inside of Windows Vista and give that a good run and see what I could do […]

Vista to boot up in 2-3 seconds

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

The Microsoft web site reports that under vista your computer will boot in around 2 to 3 seconds. That is very impressive. This is likely due to the major rewrite that Windows has undergone to deliver Vista. But even so that is very impressive.
This will be great in particular for notebook and tablet pc users […]