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Windows 7 si avvia più velocemente di Vista

Secondo dei test svolti nel mondo reale da Lifehacker, Windows 7 si avvia con tempi inferiori del 20% rispetto a Vista. Su una... more

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Mac answers "I'm a PC" ad

Nothing like taking a jab at your competitor's business model to drive your point home.

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United Kingdom Talk Video Thursday 25th September 2008

Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats. In... more

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A Gloomy Vista for Microsoft

"Remember how AOL used to be cool, but then became the service used only by people who didn't know any better? Microsoft... more

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vista ads whats up with that

Ok whats with these crazy vista adds. are they some creepy way of psychologically making us think that vista will bring us closer... more

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Jerry Seinfeld plugs Windows Vista...for $10 mil

Television spots featuring Jerry Seinfeld kidding around with the Microsoft founder Bill Gates are ready to go live when the... more

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A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP

Vista’s death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built... more

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Vista: the 'New Coke' of Tech

Fewer than one in eleven of the PCs being used in large or very large enterprises runs Windows Vista, according to survey results... more

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Microsoft attempts to help Vista's image by selling 'Mojabe' - actually Vista - to Vista skeptics

REDMOND, Wash.--After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have... more

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Microsoft lies to XP users—and they start to love Vista

In about two weeks, Redmond has managed to turn a marketing idea into something that may just shock you. Microsoft blogger Ina... more

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A sinking ship: Microsoft Vista's comeback campaign

Microsoft has just spent $300 million in a new ad strategy to remind people that Vista isn't as rubbish as everyone thinks. ... more

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Microsoft still pushing Vista compatibility story

"More than 18 months after releasing the operating system, Microsoft finds it necessary to release a tool to figure out... more

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Windows Admits to Vista's Flaws

The company will work to reverse the widely held belief, informed by early troubles upon the operating system's launch, that... more

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Vista is 'a work in progress'

While Microsoft recently extended the date when the XP software will be available for low-cost PCs, it doesn't plan to listen to some other complaints, including that Vista is too big. "Vista is bigger than XP and it's gonna stay bigger than XP," Ballmer said. "We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger.

"It's a very important piece of work. We did a lot of things right and have a lot of things we need to learn from. You never want to let five years go between releases," he said.

While Microsoft recently extended the date when the XP software will be available for low-cost PCs, it doesn't plan to listen to some other complaints, including that Vista is too big. "Vista is bigger than XP and it's gonna stay bigger than XP," Ballmer said. "We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger still."

During the lively session, peppered with flag waving by a rowdy group of Canadians, hoots and applause, Ballmer spoke about a few other key areas that the company will focused on in the near future. "It's virtualization time for Microsoft," he said. "We're gonna make sure we democratize virtualization." Probably less than 5 percent of servers in the world are virtualized today, he said. "It's too darn expensive and too hard to manage. We intend to take major strides around addressing both of those."

He also said to expect more work from Microsoft in the search market. "There's an opportunity to knock the socks off in terms of innovation," he said.

Once Microsoft introduces some blog services later this year, Ballmer intends to ask its MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) to switch their default searches to Live Search for one week. After that week, he'll ask for their feedback about what they liked and what they didn't, as part of a broad effort to improve Microsoft's third-place standing in the search market.

Another key area for the future of Microsoft is services. Overall, the use of hosted services worldwide is small, but Ballmer expects that in two to three years there will be an inflection point after which millions of people will use hosted services, he said.

There are 4,000 Microsoft MVPs around the world, and nearly 1,800 of them gathered in Seattle this week for an annual summit. MVPs are technology experts who provide feedback to Microsoft about its products -- Ballmer said they are his favorite group to address.

The topics Ballmer tackled during his talk were sometimes similar, but much broader compared to the big issue that he, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft's founders, discussed while beginning to develop software at Harvard University. "Our strategy and mission have expanded," Ballmer said. In the very beginning, year after year, Allen would approach Gates with the idea to start building computers. And each time Gates sagely said, 'No, Paul, we're not hardware guys,'" Ballmer said. "We're on that same strategy 30 years later ... but we do have an expansive vision."While Microsoft recently extended the date when the XP software will be available for low-cost PCs, it doesn't plan to listen... more