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Vista SP1 matches XP SP3 in gaming performance tests

While some businesses might not be seeing much incentive to move to Vista SP1, gamers might be warming up to the idea. Past game performance tests have shown that lower frame rates, lag, and crashing are the norm for Windows Vista RTM. While some switched over and found they were having no problems, the majority held onto Windows XP SP2 for dear life. The majority of the blame for this problem was laid on lack of solid video drivers.

According to data from Microsoft, the hardware company's drivers were responsible for the largest amount (28.8 percent) of Vista crashes. ATI was at 9.3 percent. It's therefore not surprising that many users were having performance troubles with their Vista gaming machines. This has been slowly changing, thanks to both new third-party and Microsoft drivers.

Most recently, the progress has hit a point where gamers have stopped complaining about Vista. My good friend, a gamer who swore he would be skipping Vista (as many gamers have), built himself a new computer and installed Vista x64 SP1. Not only did he tell me that he had made the switch, he was quite satisfied with the decision. Back in November, data

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Written by ShaDow on May 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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Windows Vista hits sales of 140 million

Microsoft chair Bill Gates today noted at a European news conference that sales of Windows Vista have reached 140 million copies worldwide. The update is the first since the company crossed the 100 million mark at the start of the new year, although Gates doesn't clarify when the company reached the newer threshold. This demonstrates that Vista continues to sell at a "very rapid" rate, according to the Microsoft co-founder. If tracked between January and April, the number represents about 10 million copies of Vista sold per month in the first third of 2008 and signals a slight increase in the sales rate for the operating system, which averaged at just over 9 million copies sold per month in 2007. However, the sales rate is half that of the Windows update's initial results in the first two months of its launch, when it sold as many as 20 million copies per month to cater to early demand.

Most of Microsoft's Vista sales are commonly thought to stem from licenses for new computers as part of users' regular upgrade cycles rather than interruptions spurred by specific demand for the new OS. Last year, Vista...

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Written by ShaDow on May 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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Microsoft to release 3 Critical patches,1 for Windows and 2 for Office

Microsoft would be releasing 3 critical and 1 Moderate patches on May 13, 2008.The 3 critical patches would be for Microsoft office and Windows and the Moderate one would apply to Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Antigen, Microsoft Windows Defender, Microsoft Forefront Security.Here are some more info from Microsoft :

Critical Patches (3):

Bulletin Identifier Word Bulletin

Severity Rating : Critical

Impact of Vulnerability : Remote Code Execution

Detection : Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer can detect whether your computer system requires this

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Written by ShaDow on May 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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Windows Vista Update Causes USB Problems

A recent Vista update is causing headaches for users with USB devices.

Microsoft last week re-released a software update intended to provide performance and reliability enhancements for Windows Vista -based and Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based systems. It was one of eight security bulletins and updates the company made available on April 8.

Users who installed the update, however, soon found their USB devices unresponsive, particularly mice and flash drives. Removing and re-installing the programs reportedly did not immediately solve the problem.

Microsoft confirmed the bug, but declined to provide further details.

"We are aware of concerns that a recent Microsoft update may be causing problems with USB devices," according to a Microsoft spokeswoman. "We are investigating the matter and at this time do not have any additional information to share."

"I have a new system that has been working flawlessly til this patch," a user known as SkyKnites wrote on a Google forum last week. His mouse was later restored, but now "I just get this annoying new hardware found and driver install has failed [notice] every time I reboot," he wrote.

A user known as JB also encountered problems. "I have exactly the same problem as described here,

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Written by ShaDow on May 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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64-bit Vista SP1 Runs Faster than 32-bit Vista SP1 and 32-bit XP SP3!

The 64-bit edition of Windows Vista delivers not only support for larger quantities of system memory, with the high-end editions supporting as much as 128 GB of RAM, but also some extra horse power hidden under the hood.

Essentially, in terms of performance, x64 Vista manages to best all the alternatives available under the Windows client umbrella. However, it's not the x64 Vista with Service Pack 1, as you would expect, but the plain vanilla RTM version of the latest Windows client we're talking about. In a benchmark performed using PassMark PerformanceTest 6.1, the RTM version of 64-bit Vista came out on top of all 32-bit and 64-bit Windows clients starting with the original version of Windows XP.

According to Hardware 2.0, x64 Vista RTM has outrun x64 Vista SP1 with a score of 1183.1 compared to just 1128.8. The platform used for testing featured a Phenom 9700 quad-core processor, an ATi Radeon 3850 256MB RAM, an ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe, 2GB (2 x 1GB) RAM, and a Western Digital Raptor HDD 10,000RPM 150GB as well as a Western Digital Caviar HDD 7,200RPM 500GB. On this system, the original 64-bit Vista version bested the SP1 release.

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Written by ShaDow on April 30th, 2008 with no comments.
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Windows Vista SP1 released to Automatic Update.

We're excited about the progress we've made with Windows Vista Service Pack 1. On March 18th, Windows Vista SP1 was made available for customers who chose to manually download and install it from the Microsoft Download Center or Windows Update in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. Last week, we made the remaining languages available - giving WU users the ability to download and install Windows Vista Service Pack in any of 36 supported languages. Today, we're happy to announce that we are beginning automatic distribution of SP1 in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese.

So what does this mean? Over the next few months Microsoft will automatically distribute Windows Vista SP1 to PCs that have automatic updates turned on,and running English, French, German, Spanish, or Japanese via Windows Update. Automatic distribution will only occur, according to user settings, on PCs ready for SP1. After Windows Vista SP1 downloads, WU will let you know that "new updates are available." You'll then be asked to make a few clicks before the installation of SP1 will begin.

Via [Windows Vista Blog]