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If Microsoft can't write drivers for Vista, what hope does anyone else have? PDF E-mail
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by Angus Kidman   
Saturday, 29 September 2007
If there's one advantage Microsoft's Hardware division should have over everyone else making cameras, mice and keyboards, it would be the ability to write supporting software that worked pretty well with Windows. So it's both annoying and mysterious that the drivers for its latest notebook web cams are proving problematic to the point of being literally unusable with Vista.

 
Vista and the case of the 85 unsolved problems PDF E-mail
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by Angus Kidman   
Thursday, 14 June 2007
I've learnt two things about Vista recently: even senior citizens think that it's a rip-off, and its problem-reporting capabilities are yet another example of its 'lipstick on a pig' approach to life.

 
Facing the full horror of Windows Vista PDF E-mail
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by Angus Kidman   
Tuesday, 15 May 2007
So far, Transit has been using Vista Business full-time for a fortnight. And so far, we've found nothing that works better than in Windows XP, dozens of things that are annoyingly different without being a functional improvement, and several things that work at best intermittently and at worst not at all. On the whole, we wish we'd never moved.

 
Can Microsoft sell 20 million Windows Mobile systems? PDF E-mail
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by Angus Kidman   
Wednesday, 02 May 2007
Microsoft claims that it wants to sell 20 million Windows Mobile licences over the next year. That sounds like an impressive number, but getting there will require major changes in the habits of phone users across the globe.

 
Shifting to Vista: No driver dramas yet, but the networking is rubbish PDF E-mail
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by Angus Kidman   
Sunday, 29 April 2007
Waiting a couple of months for critical patches and purchasing Vista pre-installed on a new machine seemed like a foolproof way to avoid most of the woes new Vista users have experienced, but I hadn't counted on just how bad the networking stack in the latest version of Windows is.

 
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