All reviews point to Microsoft Windows 7 being a superior product than Windows Vista which could bring Microsoft back into it’s dominant and mind blowing Windows sales.

The quality of Windows 7 includes the end user experience where error message provides a better feel to the previous experience on Windows Vista and XP.

Given that the baseline of Windows Vista is Windows 7, the drivers and application support should be at par with Windows Vista. Microsoft has not only included support for the Vista baseline but have already indicated that applications from Windows XP are supported as well.

Windows 7 has better customization features particularly around the user access control that should allow users to control the amount of security restrictions and messages they get.

Simply put, Windows 7 is far superior that Windows Vista. Is Microsoft going on a big bang party on October? I don’t think so. Consumers would buy PCs but I still feel netbooks are going to power the holiday sales loaded with XP, Linux or Android. Enterprises would not be creating budgets on migrating to Windows 7 anytime soon. There are a lot more things organizations should focus on like Enterprise Collaboration, Business Intelligence, etc.

Is Microsoft going out strong in October? Not until the economy has gotten back to it’s feet, when Windows XP officially retires and the netbooks market slows down.

In Microsoft’s yearly security intelligence report, 5 of the top 10 browser attacks were due to Windows XP. Unlike in Windows Vista, none of the attacks are because of the operating system.

Most of the attacks in Vista are due to ActiveX controls found in Internet explorer. ActiveX controls are used by IE add-ons and users are asked to install the ActiveX control for the add-on to work.

I think whether these attacks were due to Windows Vista itself or ActiveX; Vista still has something to do with it. Given that XP attacks were due to its own self and not ActiveX, only means that Microsoft can make Vista secure enough for ActiveX control based attacks. In part, Vista is still the culprit of it.

Source of article here.

I cannot remember the last time taskmgr could not close the application or end the process especially when it is as common as Windows Media Player (see image above). I think this experience only happened in Windows 95 and Windows XP without the service pack updates.

Today, I am so frustrated because I could not restart my laptop and my Windows Media Player is not responding anymore. I tried to remove the disc, ended the process in the taskmgr, and also ended the application. None of this worked in my Windows Vista computer.

Oh well, I’d have to accomplish all my task and restart my PC to solve this problem.

I cannot understand why I could not connect to the Wifi network when I went to my Uncle’s place. We both have the same ISP and probably my Vista laptop detected the same ISP and gave me the IP address from my home.

After clicking on the diagnose and repair and setting the LAN connections, I still could not connect to the internet. Later I found out that Vista has provided a static IP address and after setting up my LAN to automatically detect settings I was able to connect without any problems.

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Prerequisite:

1. Logged-in as administrator

Warning (from help)

Formatting a volume will destroy any data on the partition.

If you need to save data on the volume, either temporarily or permanently move the data to another storage device or location before you proceed.

To format an existing partition or newly created volume:

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Click on Administrative Tools
3. Click on Computer Management
4. On the left pane, click on Storage and Disk Management (See image below)

5. Right-click the volume you wish to format and click “Format”.
6. Just click on Ok until steps finishes

More information on Windows Vista.

Back in the days of Windows 95, when I was in College, a cleanup tool is a necessity on my box as I always screwed up my system with frequent and so many installs here and there. Fast track today, I never feel the need for such a utility as I would test the software in my virtualized staging environment before it goes into my box. For a lot of folks who don’t use a virtualized environment, a Windows Installer CleanUp Utility could save them time.

In an excerpt:

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I have talked about the Windows Vista Power Buttons and how I have been using it for months.

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An out of memory problem on the virtualized graphics memory arise when applications especially games demand for memory that is no longer available physically.

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Computer resources are not finite and when you get Windows Vista to open a ton load of applications; get ready for it to crash.

Windows Vista should at least be able to control how many applications it would open and signal when it is about to hit critical level. Unfortunately, it doesn’t.

Just for kicks, hit the Windows Key and E holding both keys for 30 seconds. The next thing you know, Windows Vista is going berserk. I tried it a while ago and it was so annoying that I had to shut down the PC manually.

It is so annoying since the days of Windows XP whenever a “cannot safely remove” warning pops up when removing USB flash drives even if no files were opened in it. There was always a delay when Windows XP can detect all files have been closed.

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