“I am not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers (both business and home) the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how important current applications are, and really understanding what the most important problems [our] customers face are. I see lots of random features and some great vision, but that doesn’t translate into great products.
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Microsoft has “isolated” another problem with Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Responding to complaints of endlessly rebooting PCs, the software giant has temporarily suspended the automatic distribution of a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 prerequisite.
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Microsoft released to manufacturing Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 today. They’re heading off to the assembly line now and will arrive in manufacturers’ hands on March 1.
End users will have to wait just a little bit longer. Why? Give you one guess. “Driver problems.” From the Windows Vista Blog:
Our beta testing [...]
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Microsoft’s gone and killed Vista’s infamous “Kill Switch,” a service that hamstrings unlicensed versions of the operating system.
Responding to complaints, the company said today that the upcoming Service Pack 1 update for Windows Vista will remove “Reduced Functionality Mode” from the OS’s copy-protection scheme.
That’s great news for innocent Vista users who’ve had their systems “reduced” [...]
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Microsoft confirmed yesterday what anyone with a Web browser and a BitTorrent client has long presumed: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) really does exist, as does a schedule for testing and availability. After dancing around the subject for months, Microsoft finally came clean yesterday and said it will release Windows Vista SP1 in [...]
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