Over the past several weeks, there was some speculation that the release of Windows Vista would force Apple to delay the launch of Mac OS X Leopard while it resolved Windows Vista compatibility issues with Boot Camp, but the news of Boot Camp update should calm those fears. Boot Camp 1.2 is capable not only of running the 32-bit version of Windows Vista but also of displaying the system’s much-touted Aero graphics.
Windows Vista’s been out for a few days, and people all over the Internet are alternately singing its praises and berating all who even dream of installing it; you could probably spend a sleepless month reading the content that’s been coughed up by major publishers, not to mention that of armies of bloggers and message board posters.
In a recent article, we kicked around the idea of dropping a Vista upgrade over an existing Windows XP installation. Windows Vista’s Setup program—the multitude of code that installs the operating system—doesn’t copy files and wriggle the new operating system atop the old one, resulting in a mishmash of both, as was more or less the case with prior Microsoft OSes. Vista’s compartmentalized installation routine actually copies an image of Vista onto the hard drive and then plows through things like hardware detection and configuration.
Last week this article was published in iMedia Connection. I looked at search trends for the recently announced iPhone compared to the newly launched Windows Vista along with demographic profiles of traffic to the Apple and Microsoft websites in order to assess the differences in the two computer giants’ marketing strategies. Read the more »
Have a Windows Vista preloaded on your laptop, but the system is too slow? If you have Windows ReadyBoost-capable USB flash memory, you can speed up your PC in just a few steps.
The insufficient notebook’s and desktop PC’s main memory can cause operating system to run slow on these machines. The new feature in Windows Vista, called Windows ReadyBoost technology, lets users utilize a removable flash memory device, such as a USB thumb memory drive, to make computer more responsive. According to Microsoft, ReadyBoost can speed up the computer since it can retrieve data kept on the flash memory more quickly than it can retrieve data kept on the hard disk.
