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PC makers looking to make ‘downgrade’ of vista easy
Microsoft is pushing
This program applies to Vista Business and Ultimate versions. It is really up to the PC makers to decide how exactly they want XP to be available. Fujitsu has been the most aggressive on this count. They have been including XP distribution disc in it laptop and tablet boxes.
A Microsoft representative confirmed that there were changes made to make this option available to end users. According to the Microsoft’s end users license terms Vista Business and Vista Ultimate have had the option from the beginning, though implementing the decision could be a challenge.
Microsoft changed its practices in June to allow computer makers selling pre-activated
There’s always resistance to change quite often. But demand from business users to stick with XP has been particularly strong. Looks like Microsoft is being very practical about this whole thing.
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What will Windows 7 look like ?
Analysts said Microsoft probably is keeping tight-lipped about what Windows 7 will look like because at this point, company engineers and executives don’t even know.
“They don’t want to commit because they don’t have a good idea what’s in it,” said Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner. “We’re three years out, so you can’t really expect that much detail.”
Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, said that with so many people still in the midst of upgrading to the latest client OS, Windows Vista, he’s hesitant to speculate on what might be in the next OS. “We barely know the features of the one we just got,” he said with a laugh.
That said, Cherry is expecting less “earth-shattering” new features than improvements on some of the new ones found in Windows Vista, such as the Bitlocker encryption feature, which is currently hard for the average PC user to navigate.
“You have to partition your hard drive and do a bunch of things, and you can only really today protect one drive, whereas many machines have more than one,” he said.
Cherry also pointed to a common hardware performance problem many users face because of Vista’s “very large footprint.” “It’s one of the things they might want to address — hardware utilization and performance,” he said. “It’s hard to put a big wrapper around that; it just needs to be better.”
One Microsoft executive gave a slight hint about what might turn up in Windows 7 earlier this year at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division, said in an interview that a “fundamental piece of enabling technology,” such as a hypervisor or a drastic change in the user interface, would likely turn up in Windows 7.
Fathi also said at RSA in February that Microsoft was in the middle of the planning process for Windows 7’s features and would know more over the next few months, which suggests the company now has a good idea what the OS will look like but is declining to disclose that information.
While both a hypervisor and a new user interface are possibilities for Windows 7, the former is almost a given, Gartner’s Silver said. “It almost has to go” in the OS, he said, describing the technology as “a really thin OS” that manages virtual machines running on the system.
It would behoove Microsoft to put a hypervisor in Windows 7 because it would give them more control over the hardware the OS runs on, something the company would prefer to have, Silver said.
“The hypervisor really owns the hardware, and Microsoft likes owning the hardware, and they want to be one of the people to standardize [hypervisor technology],” he said.
Vista includes such new features as desktop search and a new user interface, which also are two areas that leave room for expansion in Windows 7, analysts said.
Microsoft has shown the direction it’s going with the latter with its Surface computer, introduced in late May. That form factor looks like a coffee table with a touchscreen interface that lets users move photos around by hand and synchronize devices by placing them on the table.
With products like the Apple iPhone making the touchscreen popular with consumers, a touchscreen UI in Windows 7 is a possibility, Silver said. “They don’t want to look bad next to Apple,” he said.
Desktop search, a new feature built into Vista, also has room for improvement. Microsoft has said it will link desktop search to Windows Server 2008 so desktop users can search not only for local files but also for files on the server. This is a feature that potentially could be built into the desktop OS.
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Download Yahoo Messenger for Vista
Finally the new yahoo messenger for windows vista was unveiled. This release of yahoo messenger has been expected for a long time for its promising new and glamorous features. This preview version of yahoo messenger is now available for download. This yahoo messenger is the first of its king that is not just an upgrade but is built from ground up for the new windows operating system.
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Compatibility Issues with Adobe Photoshop CS2 with Windows Vista !
This might not please my designer fellows planing to Upgrade to Windows Vista, Be aware that if you were planing to use your current CS2 Softwares on Windows Vista, you might find your self in world of bugs and System errors ! Users of Adobe CS2 who upgraded to Vista are in for some trying times. The CS2 is not fully compatible with Vista. Such users have pleaded with Adobe for software compatibility upgrade without much luck.
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Windows Xp Service Pack 3, So whats the future gonna be ?
Windows XP, SP3 will include not only thousands of fixes and patches that have been issued since the XP’s debut three years ago, but some features imported from the Vista as well. According to Neosmart Technologies, Windows XP SP3, build 3205, as claimed in their website over the weekend, contains these “backported” new features in addition to the patches
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