windows vista

Windows Vista: Selling like hot cakes

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

Tags: microsoft, windows xp, os, vista

29 March 2007, 11:42

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

Testing Windows Vista SP1

Crave A little more than one year after its release, Windows Vista receives its first service pack update. Unlike the last Windows Service Pack release, Windows XP SP2 -- which offered users a new Windows Firewall, an improved Automatic Updates feature...

19 March 2008, 12:12

Netbook showdown: The top 10 mini laptops rated

Crave It's chosen to use its own 1.6GHz C7-M chip, which as we've discussed, is pants -- especially when paired with Windows Vista. Its second problem is the fact it's so bleedin' slow -- the VIA C7-M CPU really struggles to run Windows XP, and bizarrely...

6 June 2008, 17:48

WannabEees: Eee PC vs Elonex One vs OLPC vs EasyNote XS vs MSI Wind and more

Crave The fact it uses Windows is no excuse -- the Dell Vostro uses Vista and costs £200 less. That's probably just as well, since it uses Windows Vista Home Premium edition. Downgrading' to Windows XP Professional will set you back an extra £30, which...

12 March 2008, 11:17

Eleksen Windows SideShow laptop bag

Crave The Windows SideShow feature may seem like a gimmick but products like this are going to appear all over the place once Vista is rolled out on to all our laptops. It's not easy to understand what all this Windows SideShow business is about.

Tags: laptop, check, bag, small screen

30 January 2007, 10:43

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

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

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. With that in mind, we've come up with a bunch of things we think should have been included with Vista SP1, and things that could help improve the...

Tags: desktops, hard drive, windows vista, flip

19 March 2008, 14:27

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

It's all about Vista at CES 2007

Crave In just over a month, the world will say a fond farewell to Windows XP and begin to embrace its plucky upstart of a sibling: Vista. ReadyDrive Top of our list of Vista funk is the Windows ReadyDrive feature, which takes advantage of hybrid disk...

Tags: microsoft, windows xp, addresses, monitors

20 December 2006, 12:03

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

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

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