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Kill Vista by pressing just two keys!

July 17th 2007

Windows Vista can be completely killed by pressing a simple combination of just two keys. All you need to crush Microsoft’s latest operating system and put the much-applauded Wow at an end is two fingers. This issue has been reported independently of Microsoft, and the Redmond company has failed to issue any official comment at [...]

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Phoenix BIOS Locks out all OS’s except Vista!!!

April 11th 2007

Taken from The Linux and OpenSource blog:
If you’re buying a new computer in the near future, it may be a good idea to avoid systems with Phoenix bios on them. There’s recent proof that their 2003 contract with Microsoft has born fruit in their latest bios versions which now prevent you [...]

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Windows Vista – the Last Big Windows Operating System

April 11th 2007

Windows Vista will be the last big Windows operating system. Further more, Microsoft is losing its grip on the desktop to business solutions built on SaaS, open source and virtualization. These are the conclusions put forward by analysts from Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs’ perspective on Windows Vista is not singular. In fact, the view that Vista [...]

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Get Vista Features on Your XP

February 12th 2007

Windows Vista is on the shelves! Available for the general public, not only for enterprises, everyone can upgrade the current Windows XP or buy the brand new OS from Microsoft.
Due to different reasons like high hardware requirements, software incompatibility or the price, some people cannot afford to do the migration, at least not in the [...]

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Kaspersky Reveals the Fundamental Vulnerability of Vista PatchGuard

February 10th 2007

Kaspersky regards the Kernel Patch Protection introduced in 64-bit Windows Vista as a joke. Alisa Shevchenko, Virus analyst, Kaspersky Lab, claims that PatchGuard can “hardly be viewed as providing serious protection against rootkits.” In this context, Kaspersky has revealed that the Windows Vista kernel, for 64-bit platforms only, is just “allegedly” immune to modifications.

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Windows Vista Ultimate Site

January 8th 2007

With Windowsultimate.com, a website dedicated to Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft is offering a life experience outside the box. “Welcome to the new website for Windows Vista Ultimate. This is a space where we, the people who make Windows Vista Ultimate and Ultimate Extras, can talk to you about what we’re doing”, reads Microsoft’s welcoming message.

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