After a year of glitches and server issues, Microsoft has announced that Vista Service Pack 1 will no longer include the infamous “kill switch,” which puts Vista in “reduced functionality” mode if the license key fails to validate. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Mike Sievert says in a press release that instead of disabling features, SP1 [...]
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Test Drive Windows Vista In Your Browser
Microsoft is offering a chance to try out Vista through your browser. I think they have a good idea here but it won’t win anybody over to the operating system. It requires that you have Internet Explorer, it then requires an ActiveX install, and it runs really slow. Nice try Microsoft.
PeerGuardian 2 RC1 Beta With Vista Support
PeerGuardian 2 RC1 has been availble for a few months now and though some users have had problems with it, others have been able to run it successfully with a few tweaks here and there. Download the application yourself and test it out. If you have problems help the developers out and post it to [...]
Windows Vista SP1 – One Stop Detail Shop
I’m rolling up as many of the current Vista SP1 news that is sprawled across the world wide web in this one super post. This is the one post to rule them all. The first service pack for Vista is a major one, it will either make or break the operating system. There are performance, [...]
Windows Vista SP1 Details
APC Magazine got a chance to install the service pack 1 beta for Windows Vista. I doubt it will be this way when it’s released to the public, but for APC the download was a 3.2GB DVD ISO of Vista with SP1. There is one new feature that SP1 will add to Vista called Create [...]
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