News tagged with Vista (4 results)

5 Mistakes Microsoft made with Windows Vista

Windows Vista has kind of gotten a bum rap. Some of the rap is deserved -- Microsoft shipped it too early. But for the most part, the rap is carried on by vocal techies who just like to poop on things because they think criticizing things makes them appear more knowledgeable. Talking to a techie ...

Vista Workshop: More RAM, More Speed

Windows Vista With 8 GB Throughout the history of personal computers, RAM has always been something of a valuable commodity - even a luxury. Only a few years ago, even reaching the memory limit of 4 GB possible under a 32-bit operating system was completely unthinkable. But then again, at one t...

Creative X-Fi Vista Drivers

Creative Support now offers new drivers for X-Fi cards running under Windows Visa, which should, as pointed out by Gizmodo, "finally put that whole driver fiasco behind them." According to Giz the drivers add DVD audio playback. Thanks Mike Martinez. ...

Can Windows 7 evade the Vista curse?

A couple weeks back, Microsoft announced that it’s next operating system will be simply named as Windows 7. Can the next Microsoft OS evade the Vista curse? In the past years since Microsoft Vista was rolled out, it suffered a huge PR problem with perceptions of being too heavy on the sy...