After Windows Vista ships, you will have much less time than those running Windows XP to test and deploy the new operating system before independent software vendor support starts waning around 2007 and Microsoft ends all bug-fix support in mid...
While Vista will "offer incremental, evolutionary improvements" over its predecessors, XP users should "pursue a strategy of managed diversity". This does not apply to XP users who "could wait a little longer to start deploying Windows Vista and...
The use of a 3D accelerator gives Windows Vista much more flexibility in creating imaginative interface displays on the desktop, such as animated wallpaper. Now set to ship in January 2007, Windows Vista will be Microsoft's first major operating...
The relative reliability and security of Windows XP is one reason why many organisations are in no hurry to upgrade to Vista. Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash, said: "There is no crashing urgency for us to upgrade as our current XP platform is...
It provides instructions and recommendations designed to help strengthen the security of desktop and laptop computers running Vista in such a set-up, Microsoft said. A Microsoft representative said in an emailed statement: "Feedback from these...
Last September, Brad Goldberg, general manager for Windows Client product management, predicted Vista would be put in use by twice as many businesses in the first year as Windows XP was in the 12 months following its October 2001 release.