Tuesday, March 25, 2008

XP vs. Vista

Continuing with the thread on Operating System Updates, we have:

Free support for Vista SP1 installs How nice!

Why Vista isn’t as good as the Mac Robert Scoble has some battery life issues on his Dell Tablet.

Death Match: Windows Vista vs. XP links to an article on the Australian PC World. It looks at big questions like: will Windows XP still be properly supported by Microsoft and, as a primary development target, by third parties? Is there something we've missed, some hidden gotcha that's going to trip us up?

The Death of Windows XP on Slashdot points to an article with a timeline of XP's death Windows XP: Going, going ... gone?

Another Slashdot post, Windows 7 Likely Going Modular, Subscription-based, describes a little of Microsoft's next Operating System. Modular doesn't seem like a new idea to those of us that know a little about Unix....

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Vista SP1 Finally Released

OSNews notes that Windows Vista SP1 Released
After many rumors as to when Windows Vista would get its much-anticipated first service pack looked improbable, Microsoft has finally dropped SP1 on the masses. SP1 rolls together 23 security updates and 550 hotfixes into a 434.5MB download (726.5MB for the 64-bit version). Apart from improvements brought by individual updates that are now part of SP1, changes that SP1 brings by itself to Microsoft's flagship OS are numerous.

Another post from downloadsquad, Windows Vista SP1 available now, has a few more details.

Some people are not happy with the update: Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places. Not too surprising!

Of course, this is after a delay, back to the original mid-March release date.

Meanwhile, Apple released the iPhone SDK about two weeks ago just a little late. They also released the second security update for 2008, two days ago....