Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Microsoft has released Vista Release Candidate 2, a new and what the company hopes is the final build before the commercial release of the operating system to volume licensees in November.
The software will be available to a few
hundred thousand users, including members of Microsoft's Customer
Preview Program, developers and other testers.
According to Microsoft, it does not expect to find any significant
problems to delay the final launch date for business users in November
and general comsumer release in January 2007. However, the software
company left the door open to push back those dates if quality issues
arise.
The new release candidate, according to Microsoft, has been tightened
with improvements to its user interface, performance and applications
compatibility.
The debate is still raging between analysts as to whether next month
will see the commercial release of Vista. Notably, Gartner at last
report has not changed its prediction that Microsoft will not be able
to make the November 2006 and January 2007 release schedules.
A major issue raised with previous builds to date has been the User
Account Control (UAC) security feature, which prevents ordinary users
who don't have administrator level privileges from accomplishing simple
administrative tasks, such as deleting or installing an application or
changing the system time. However, a number of testers say the security
benefits of UAC far outweigh the annoyance factor for users.
An iTWire tester. who will be posting a review shortly, reports that Vista RC1 runs almost flawlessly.
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