The Vista era has officially begun. The question is, has the world changed? Not yet, although I think it’s inevitable that it will.
I’ve been using the shipping version of Vista for about three months, and although I’m impressed overall, it’s still full of nagging annoyances. The wireless networking, for example, seems to work haphazardly, and driver support is still inadequate. Take 3D graphics drivers, for example. nVidia can’t seem to get its act together with a stable driver release, and AMD’s ATI division isn’t doing much better.
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The HTC Advantage shall soon make itself available in the US. The PDA comes with GSM / GPRS / EDGE connectivity and also has Tri-band UMTS / HSDPA connectivity. It also has an in-built GPS navigation system with the HTC VueFLO nav system. Hardware specs include an 5 inch VGA touch display, detachable QWERTY keyboard, 8GB hard drive, 256MB of flash memory and a 128MB main memory. To facilitate memory expansion, we also have a miniSD card slot.
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Not thrilled about spending a bundle on Vista–and dealing with potential bugs and hardware upgrades? Stick with XP, and use these tools to emulate the Vista experience.
The Hassle: I’m trying to resist moving to Vista. How can I make XP perform like the new Windows OS?
The Fix(es): You can be a holdout (like me) and use a few XP-based freebies that do a surprisingly good job of emulating some of Vista’s fancy graphical features. The first three apps listed below are my favorites. You can find all of the free tools and more online at “Add Vista Features to XP.”
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Not thrilled about spending a bundle on Vista–and dealing with potential bugs and hardware upgrades? Stick with XP, and use these tools to emulate the Vista experience.
The Hassle: I’m trying to resist moving to Vista. How can I make XP perform like the new Windows OS?
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Today we are getting our readers to know the new mobile operatingsystem by Microsoft codenamed “Windows Mobile Crossbow”. The mostprobable title for the commercial edition, though, is “Windows Mobile6.0”, but it is the thing to remain veiled until an officialannouncement is made. Read the more »
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