Snydeq writes "For the past several months, Microsoft has engaged in an far-reaching public mea culpa about Vista, holding a series of press interviews to explain how the company's Vista mistakes changed the evolvement process of Windows 7. Chief among these changes was the purposefulness to 'define...

Have you got the Windows Vista Magazine March 2009 issue? Below is what you are getting: Issue 28 - March 2009 Issue 28 of Windows Vista: The Official Magazine is now available at your newsagents. Inside you will find tips and guides to help get the most out of Windows Vista and your PC! Find out ho...

My sister just reformatted her hard drive replacing Vista with XP, but now she can't get online. HP was no help because they said they can't support her changing operating systems. How can I help her get online? Model and other details follow: She has an HP Pavilion a1700n Desktop PC. On the HP webs...

I usually don’t do a huge amount of reading about Linux. That is, not concerning its development. I am usually concerned with solving problems, with the specific distribution I am working with, at the time. Since the weekend, I have been reading a few articles about Jaunty Jackelope, the upcom...

Gnomie Michael Schroeder writes: Hi, Chris. I just watched your Vista rant video. You are right on when you say Vista is not ready for prime time. Anybody who deals with more than a couple of computers already knows this. The problem is you are looking at Microsoft from the eyes and paradigm of a ge...

Do you want to experience maximum gaming performance on your Windows Vista computer? Tweaking your settings and some registry edits can do the trick. TechRadar has done the homework for you, as written: Adjust file indexing Vista’s file indexing sounds like a good idea in theory: maintaining a...

Warning: The following is a rant. Please feel free to skip if not interested. What I was trying to do: I had only Ubuntu Linux installed on my laptop, no dual-boot with Windows. The DVD drive stopped working, so I contacted Dell support. They asked me to upgrade the drivers, I said I couldn’t ...

Lighter posting this weekend.  I’m cleaning up the back yard for Spring and other assorted house-cleaning chores I’ve been putting off for a while. Michael Pietroforte at his awesome 4sysops blog has one of the best sysadmin sites I just can’t wait to see a new post from. Michael’s skil...

In the Windows 7 beta, the Windows Experience Index of Primary Hard disk is rated lower than Windows Vista. This is not possible as the Windows Experience Index (WEI) is up to 7.9 in Windows 7 and its 5.9 in Windows Vista. Maybe this is a small bug or something in the beta version and I hope it will...

Microsoft escaped with a rap on the knuckles from their anti-trust woes with the United States Justice Department. They are not faring nearly so well with European authorities. Microsoft recently lost a long and hard-fought battle with European antitrust authorities over their mandatory inclusion of...