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Windows Media Player 11: iTunes killer at last?

Crave Crave couldn't help but feel a little disappointed by the Windows Vista preview at CES. Hopefully we'll see the new Media Player before Windows Vista launches, but as Urge isn't set for release until later in the year, we may not see it until then...

Tags: microsoft, windows vista, albums, vista

7 January 2006, 15:16

Seven days of Vista -- day 7: Which Vista version?

Crave In six days we uncovered Windows Vista's cooler features, and on the seventh day we rested. But bear in mind that Business, along with Vista Ultimate, features Windows Movie Maker, which lets you create hi-def home movies.

Tags: microsoft, upgrade, windows vista, premium

31 January 2007, 12:12

Seven days of Vista -- day 4: Stacking and filtering

Crave We're four days into our hands-on with the final version of Windows Vista and all is well. The details bar in Vista's Explorer windows is always visible, no matter what view setting you choose, so column headings for file name and details such as...

Tags: microsoft, windows vista, vista, details

26 January 2007, 11:19

Apple: Don't upgrade to Vista yet

Crave Apple's campaign against Windows Vista stepped up a notch recently as the company urged iTunes users not to upgrade to Vista. According to the BBC, Apple has said there are several problems with iTunes on Vista, including synchronisation issues...

Tags: apple, released, windows vista, itunes

6 February 2007, 10:19

Asus W5Fe: Lovable SideShow freak

Crave If there's one PC technology Crave has been looking forward to, it's the SideShow option in Windows Vista. The applications, known as 'Gadgets' (no, they're not the same Gadgets as you get in Vista proper) are stored in 1GB of NAND memory and...

Tags: inch, vista, windows vista, gadgets

8 January 2007, 3:46

Seven days of Vista -- day 6: Vista arrives in London

Crave Well, the long five-year wait is over, and Microsoft's brand-spanking new operating system, Windows Vista, and Windows Office 2007 have finally been launched by Bill Gates at an event at the British Library in London.

Tags: microsoft, story, gadgets, windows vista

30 January 2007, 12:09

Seven days of Vista -- day 1: Let there be new applications

Crave Windows Calendar is a standard part of Vista that lets you plan and manage your activities and co-ordinate it with other Vista users over a network, or over email. Games Solitaire is usually the first port of call after a fresh Windows install, so...

Tags: microsoft, updated, solitaire, outlook express

23 January 2007, 11:21

Acer VP not "feeling" Vista

Crave Yippee," you might say, drooling at the prospect of its successor, Windows Vista. The king is dead, long live the king," you may add, gawking at the sexy leaked pictures of Windows Vista packaging you see to your right.

Tags: acer, windows vista, vista, comments

31 October 2006, 11:06

Microsoft aims Windows 7 for Christmas 2009

Crave Officially, the party line is that Windows will ship within three years of the January 2007 consumer release of Windows Vista. In a presentation on its rather secretive Velocity programme to improve PC quality, Microsoft director Doug Howe showed a...

Tags: christmas, windows vista, testing, machines

7 November 2008, 10:00

Vista has landed! But it won't take off

Crave The total cost of switching to Vista is difficult enough for Joe Public to swallow, let alone a money-conscious MD, to whom a new Lamborghini is of far more importance than upgrading from Windows XP. It says, "For the IT professional, Windows Vista...

Tags: microsoft, vista, windows xp, windows vista

30 November 2006, 11:15

Seven days of Vista -- day 3: Go go Gadgets crazy

Crave Day three of our Vista forage leads us to Gadgets -- mini applications that sit in an area on the far right side of your screen known as the Sidebar. As standard, Vista ships with World Clock (an analogue clock), Feed Viewer (for RSS feeds), Slide...

Tags: microsoft, gadgets, widgets, gadget

25 January 2007, 11:03

Microsoft to use 'Windows 7' code name in new release

Crave We've used version numbers like Windows 3.11, or dates like Windows 98, or 'aspirational' monikers like Windows XP or Windows Vista. Likewise, coming up with an all-new 'aspirational' name does not do justice to what we are trying to achieve, which...

Tags: pre, vista, beta, windows vista

14 October 2008, 10:01

Nikon Coolpix P6000: Dripping with features

Crave Unlike NEF, NRW is compatible with Vista's Windows Imaging Component codec API (also available for Windows XP SP2 via .NET), which makes using the raw files more transparent under Windows. The Coolpix P6000, which replaces last year's P5100, is...

Tags: nikon, gps, class, raw

8 August 2008, 10:00

Acer Ferrari 5000 and 1000 laptops unveiled

Crave Acer has plumped for the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of dedicated memory (it can leach an extra 256MB from the main system memory if you get graphics-greedy) plus there's an HDMI port with HDCP -- which you'll need come the advent of Blu...

Tags: acer, processor, windows vista, inch

19 July 2006, 10:49

Crave Talk: Microsoft Zune -- a vision of the future

Crave A Windows Vista update becomes available at the end of 2008. In the summer of 2008, riled by the critical slating of Vista and determined to make a comeback, Microsoft launches its new campaign. Microsoft refutes the claims, but refuses to reveal...

Tags: microsoft, songs, itunes, vista

25 July 2006, 12:21

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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