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Microsoft plans to release a trio of updates for Windows Vista this week, a move the company said should help ease some of the top complaints leveled against the operating system.
The patches, expected to be issued Tuesday, address core issues like performance, reliability, and stability of the nearly year-old operating system.
One update aims to improve battery life on mobile devices, boost stability of wireless connections, and improve the operating system's response time following a period of inactivity.
A second patch deals with the operating system's interactions with USB ports, in particular when systems wake from sleep or hibernation, issues that cause 1 percent to 2 percent of all reported crashes, Microsoft said.
The final software update deals with the Windows Media Center component of Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate, offering fixes for the way the software interacts with an Xbox 360 that is acting as a Media Center extender.
The updates will also be included in the first service pack for Vista, due next year.
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Or just build on a stable, secure platform like Apple did with OSX.
What MS is doing is like putting a bandaid over a deep jugular cut.
needed because it would either pop up intrusive alerts or just
didn't have the drivers.
And it was slooooooow. Jumped back to XP so I could actually
do something.
As to sales numbers, please. What's the old line about 2 million
flies on a manure truck can't be wrong?
Vista is the joke of the IT industry and the only reason it still
survives is due to the MS monopoly. And don't even try to argue
that it doesn't exist in the face or rising Apple sales, Google,
and Linux. Just ask IT people as to the arm twisting from
Redmond.
their line of Ubuntu Linux PC's:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/allReviews.do?
product_id=7754614
Also, check out the reviews - aside from one guy who installed
Windows on his, the rest of the buyers rate it very highly w/
Ubuntu on it.
Meanwhile, at Apple, Macs are selling like hotcakes.
So how's Vista doing again?
/P
People and businesses complain about Vista's problems so MSFT releases an update to fix them. I guess MSFT should feel bad that some people don't like MSFT, but then again every success has its naysayers.
Regarding all the bad responses about Vista, I for one, I've been using it since Jan./Feb. without any problems. For example, it didn't freeze during the install due to some hackneyed third party software, that's for sure. I run CAD/CAM software on it and all my devices work great, including tablets from the late 1990's. It's no revolution, but it's a nice update.
Nobody really forced me to use it, too, I saw it demo'ed and liked it. I even upgraded my P4 2 Ghz at the office, but I did upgrade the video card to a GeForce FX make use of the full Aero interface (cost < $40). Later I upgraded my parents' P3 1Ghz when I picked up a copy of Vista Basic for $38.
This morning my work PC had been rebooted after the upgrades overnight and everything works fine. I'm not likely to see any difference since I wasn't having problems to begin with.
I'm nonetheless happy that MSFT continues to refine the OS and trying to get it to work with old and new hardware.
I have onboard sound and I also have a USB headset... a Plantronics GameCom Pro 1. For some reason in Vista, the mic constantly and randomly mutes itself. Never had this problem with XP... it's just when I upgraded to Vista 64 so I could go beyond 4gb of ram did this problem pop up.
It's a problem I can live with because all I have to do is push a button on the cable. It's only a problem when I am gaming and in TeamSpeak and spend 10 mins talking to people with no one responding and I look down to see my mute indicator light is red and I am like DOH!
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2296/071114leopardmauls/index.html
By contrast, only two variants of Vista made it to the top 10: Those two variants of Vista Home were in 5th and 10th place, respectively.
/P
- I love Vista.
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by rmissourimule
November 15, 2007 8:46 AM PST
- Frankly, I think all this bellyaching about Vista is nonsense. I have had excellent results but one should get a new machine to run it. Otherwise I have no complaints at all.
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