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Crave Podcast 96: Microsoft punks Vista haters

Crave Next, we report on Microsoft's Mojave experiment, which fooled ordinary folks into loving Windows Vista. It's podcast Friday, y'all! Rory Reid returns to the helm after a two week hiatus, to join Nate Lanxon, Kate Macefield and Richard Trenholm for...

Tags: windows vista, podcast, prisoners, fans

1 August 2008, 12:17

Vista Service Pack 1: Things Microsoft forgot to fix

Crave Windows Vista Service Pack 1 became available yesterday and the entire Interweb is talking about it. Some are saying SP1 improves Vista's general meh-diocrity, while others, including our brothers and sisters at CNET.com, are saying it's not all that.

Tags: desktops, hard drive, windows vista, flip

19 March 2008, 14:27

Vista has landed! But it won't take off

Crave After what seems like aeons, Vista has finally gone on sale -- but only to business users. So does that mean you and your co-workers will be all Vista'd up in time for Christmas? Will the talk of the office party be how much Vista Business has...

Tags: microsoft, vista, windows xp, windows vista

30 November 2006, 11:15

Testing Windows Vista SP1

Crave A little more than one year after its release, Windows Vista receives its first service pack update. Windows Vista to SP1 on a typical Acer TravelMate required about one hour. Unlike the last Windows Service Pack release, Windows XP SP2 -- which...

19 March 2008, 12:12

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 VW198T: No-nonsense Vista monitor

Crave Still, the VW198T supports HDCP, so it's fully Vista-ready and you can watch copy-protected Blu-ray flicks over its DVI port. Asus has a habit of making interesting computer screens. They've given us monitors with a built-in subwoofer, and even...

Tags: asus, contrast, monitors, ratio

15 October 2007, 12:28

How to: Check that your PC is Windows Vista ready

Crave For those of you that have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Windows Vista, that day is finally drawing close. CNET.co.uk reader Andrew Fisher wrote to us this week asking how he could find out whether his PC is fast enough to run Vista.

Tags: windows vista, vista, editors, reader

21 July 2006, 11:34

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 Vista late -- but why?

Crave When Microsoft announced it would be delaying its Windows Vista operating system until January 2007, we weren't sure whether to react with anger, surprise or indifference based on its extensive catalogue of launch indiscretions.

Tags: microsoft, windows xp, windows vista, manufacturers

22 March 2006, 11:46

No surround sound in Vista? Creative tries a little ALchemy

Crave Our enthusiasm for Vista took a knock today as we realised it has serious audio playback issues. According to audio experts Creative, Windows Vista will not support surround sound or EAX audio on a huge number of PC games.

Tags: creative, fi, hardware, playback

22 January 2007, 16:51

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

Crave So the Lord Gates created Vista in his own image -- and we've seen that it is good. So good, in fact, we've decided to share with you our knowledge of its excellence in a series of guides, which we'll kick off by talking about the new and updated...

Tags: microsoft, updated, solitaire, outlook express

23 January 2007, 11:21

Seven days of Vista -- day 2: User interface enhancements

Crave Our ongoing muck-about with Vista is going pretty well. Mere words don't do it justice: we'd probably buy Vista for this feature alone. Instant Search When you upgrade to Vista you'll probably find the Instant Search feature indispensable.

Tags: microsoft, tab, icons, thumbnails

24 January 2007, 15:51

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

Windows Vista: Selling like hot cakes

Crave Vista has launched, the dust has settled, and the sales figures are out. Not only that, but Vista has apparently been selling twice as fast as Windows XP -- which managed just 17 million sales in two months.

Tags: microsoft, windows xp, os, vista

29 March 2007, 11:42

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