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Fuzzy Logic Vista SP2 beta this week when Windows 7 pre-beta arrives
Fuzzy Logic Vista SP2 beta this week when Windows 7 pre-beta arrives | Vista SP2 beta this week when Windows 7 pre-beta arrives |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 27 October 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Microsoft also urges anyone who hasn’t yet upgraded to SP1 to do so immediately, and naturally urges everyone to upgrade to SP2 “when it ships”, promising more information on SP2 in the future. Featured Whitepaper
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If that truly is the case, then Microsoft should focus its efforts on finishing whatever new features it has planned and getting Windows 7 out the door in mid-2009, giving system builders and OEMs plenty of time to get Windows 7 machines ready for the usually lucrative Christmas 2009 season. Reports also suggest that Microsoft is hard at work on making a netbook-optimised version of Windows 7, something it will need in the quest to banish Windows XP to the history books and fight the growing Linux threat which is most evident in the netbook market. Already we have seen Windows Vista loaded onto the HP MiniNote 2133 netbook, but as the MiniNote comes with a Via C7 processor, there’s a lot of “waiting” for things to happen. The only other netbook to come with Vista pre-loaded as standard is the brand new Dell Mini 12, a 12-inch netbook using an Atom-based processor with only 1GB of memory. Initial reports suggest that it actually runs nicely enough, which actually shows the power of the Intel Atom processor compared with the Via C7 or the Intel Celeron, but a netbook-optimised version of Windows 7 would be a much better solution. So, Microsoft, hurry up with Windows 7 or face XP’s lifespan growing ever longer, while being stalked by the likes of Ubuntu Netbook Remix! |
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