You thought that they wouldn’t dare: From the 2nd of August, Microsoft is going to charge 1.50$ per download of the beta version of Microsoft Office. Yes! Now, there are so many crzay people willing to test a bug-ridden version of Microsoft Office that the firm from Redmond can make them pay for this privilege.…
Category: Windows Vista
Win98 is really dead!
After long years of operation, Windows 98 is officially dead today (11 July 2006). As a matter of fact, this is not news and Microsoft was slowly reducing the efforts and even in June they refused to patch a security issue arguing that it would be too much effort (and that they couldn’t care less).…
No DirectX 10 for XP – Go Vista
News from The Inquirer: Vista will be the only Operating System supporting DirectX 10 (the latest version of the video-game-oriented graphic support software). This is bad news for those intending to keep WindowsXP and willing to use the latest video games and entertainment software in 2007. You will have to switch to Vista, like it…
WMD better than JPEG?
It is quite hard to tell but, according to Microsoft, the JPEG file format needed a good lifting or – better – its complete replacement with a new one. So, Vista will recognize the new Windows Media Photo format. They promise smaller files with less visual defects/artifacts. But nothing is said about the actual support…
Vista is late. We know why.
Gary Krakow, columnist at MSNBC has tried the Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2. It is fair to say that his report is shooting Vista down. Essentially, Vista is nice but it is a nightmare to install. You can expect that to be a proof of instability and a reason for added delays at delivering the…
Vista draws Office into the whirlwind
After announcing by Microsoft that Vista wold not be available before October 2007 (and, even then only for big customers; Christmas buys are in a bad shape for you and me), we learn that Microsoft Office 2007 will suffer the same fate. Push it a little more and we will have to rename it Microsoft…
New technologies: Updated availability schedule
If we look quickly, here are a few of the significant availability dates for some important technologies for PC computers around us: Windows Vista: awaited for the first week of October HD-DVD: announced for March 2006, but probably without write capacity (because DRM will not be implemented yet) Blu-Ray DVD: announced for May 2006 at…
Windows Vista: Marketing techniques
Microsoft just announced that there will be a grand total of 6 different versions of Windows Vista. This is an approach well known of marketing specialists. A product is on a competitive market, the price goes down (or up) according to the laws of free market. If the market is not competitive, the price may…
WSPR will tell you the power of your PC
This is a rather good surprise for the normal users of PC. Microsoft is rumoured to prepare a rating to evaluate if a PC will be able to provide a good, bad or excellent experience with Windows Vista. A PC rated 1 will be providing a minimal experience, a PC rated 5 will be near…