Windows 7 or XP
Windows 7
Everyone knows that in the world of operating systems and large multinational firms, things are not simple nor univocal but often analyzes possibilities are absolutely contradictory.
In this connection it is easy to see that Windows 7 has long been growing at a pace that would allow long beat Vista usage share by July this year
.
At the end is delayed another month, but according NetMarketShare has succeeded, becoming the second most used OS in the world with a 14.46% share, leaving over Vista (14.34%), but still far behind Windows XP ( 61.87%).
Interestingly, according to figures NetMarketShare, all operating systems have lost share, except for Windows 7. Does this mean that Win7 is capturing Mac OS X or Linux? No. This decline is widespread because the mobile OS, which share the same cake that the desktop is growing rapidly.
On the other hand, however well it is going to Windows 7, XP is still by far the master of the operating systems. In fact, Windows XP is more used than all other OS together (including Mac OS X and various Linux distributions). And despite that, thanks to the release of Windows 7 has been significantly decrease the amount of people using XP, it still lacks enough to get even the 50% share. Read more
Good news for Microsoft
Good news for Microsoft
No doubt that the bad times of a firm trading as Microsoft does not lead to a radical crisis under which no longer able to speak of his own existence. Quite the contrary, low long periods are accompanied by hikes that position again, in this case Microsoft, in a privileged place.
This can be well understood when we see how badly that Microsoft is going in the field of the tablets, there is still good news for Redmond in their product: Windows 7. More specifically, these days have been published some numbers will not entirely happy with the competition. Microsoft appears to have come from the sale of licenses of Windows 7 to 175 million.
For a point of comparison, Windows Vista came to a similar number of licenses sold at 18 months of being released, while Windows 7 has achieved in 9 months, half the time. That is, Windows 7 is sold twice as fast as Windows Vista.
In addition, Microsoft has had the good sense to report this figure as "7 licenses sold per second" (to be exact, are 7.35 licenses per second), which helps us to gauge the magnitude of these quantities. Read more
Windows 8: Bluff SO loyal employees or revolutionary?
¿Bluff or revolution?
Windows 7 has been at least a breath of fresh air for the people of both Microsoft and developers and users in general. The very poor image that drew the signature from the great failure of Vista, seems to have been reversed by an SO well received. Now, given this gloss and polish, the folks at Microsoft seem to come with something big and code-named-user: admin, password: admin, laughter-is Windows 8.
It appears that an employee of the firm, in a blog on MSDN, Leake left some unbridled enthusiasm in an article that was deleted shortly after. According to the employee said: "Windows 8 will be something completely different to what we're used to seeing in Windows". Read more
SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
Last week Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Since both operating systems have much in common, has released a single file to update any of the two systems, reducing the work of managers.
Enhancements include support for Bluetooth 2.1, Blu-ray, wifi improved, better support for third party applications, and Sever 2008 for integrating the Hiper.V support.
Source: vnunet.es
Backward compatibility of Windows 7
According to Cnet Microsoft is working to improve compatibility with older programs that do not currently run on Windows Vista. The list of programs "rescued" non-English-speaking and emphasizes the inclusion, among others, of IKEA Home Planner in the Spanish version.
If they improve this point will be something for Windows 7 as it is one of the issues that has been most criticized in Vista.
Microsoft award for translations into regional languages
Translations of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office to Euskera, Catalan and Galician have assumed for Microsoft to win the "I Promotion Award for the multilingual reality of Spain." The award from the regions of Galicia, Catalonia, Basque Country and the Balearic Islands, will pick the president of Microsoft Iberia Maria Garaña.
Source: vnunet.es
Steve Ballmer says Vista has no place in Netbooks
It seems that Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) has granted an interview with CNET, where we find some curious responses such as in the saying that Windows Vista has no place in the market for netbooks, but they are doing their best to Windows 7 itself does. To know today if Windows 7 is very different to Vista though the recently released beta does not feel that the new system has changed significantly and therefore unlikely to have relevance in the world of netbooks.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10137414-56.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
Windows Vista Antivirus
Antivirus in Windows Vista
Although Microsoft tried to improve the security of your system many people are looking for an antivirus for Windows Vista because it does not just rely on having a secure system.
So let's leave the list of free antivirus programs available for Windows Vista:
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avast!
4.8 Home Edition.
(This virus has a special aVist template according to the Aero theme).
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html -
AVG Anti-Virus System Free Edition.
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5 -
Security Guide Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/latam/technet/windowsvista/security/guide.mspx
The Servipack 2 for Windows Vista could be ready in spring 2009
The long-awaited Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista could come in April next year,
just 2 months after Microsoft releases a final version
testing among a select group of users.
That, of course, if before
no problems as those recently affected SP1
Vista or Windows XP SP3 and postponed two launches between
1 and 6 weeks.
According to information provided by Microsoft itself, the
Vista SP2 will include, among other things, Windows Search 4, support
Bluetooth 2.1, Blu-ray and a faster recovery
system when problems stemming from a wireless connection.
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