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Tweak Windows Vista with Stardock TweakVista

You've got to love a company that knows how to give its product an obvious name. Stardock TweakVista does exactly what you would expect. It allows you to change a whole slew of Windows Vista settings. Some things you could probably accomplish ...

Anyone have Vista running?

Are you running Vista? Which version are you running? Do you like it? I just bought a new PC with Vista pre-loaded, and it's nice. It's not completely perfect but, not completely sucky either, which in my mind computes to "just right." For anyone ...

Dev Chair : The Vista Tax

As regular computer user, I don't have much interest in migrating to Vista in the immediate future. I don't think it offers any great leap in usability or functionality over XP. UAC (User Access Control) is definitely much needed and will improve ...

The 8 faces of Windows Vista

Paul Thurrott confirms Microsoft is releasing no less than six versions of Windows Vista, eight if you count the EU editions sans Media Player. It makes my head hurt trying to sort through the differences, but the lineup includes (in order of ...

Vista and businesses butt heads

Vista took a while to come to fruitation, and now that it's out, and somewhat patched, businesses are having a hard time deciding whether it's worth it to update. A new survey by PatchLink Corp. suggests that businesses see XP as being far more ...

Why you need Vista

Well, I'm not entirely convinced that anybody needs Windows Vista just now, but Manuel Clement is, and he's collected a series of videos from Microsoft's Channel 9 that demonstrate some of the most important new features that we'll see in Vista, from ...

Make XP like Vista

Not talking about an Aero-inspired shell. From faster startup to securing your data, PCWorld has some tricks on making XP a little like Vista. It's a healthy mix of free and shareware offerings, though even all the apps together won't cost as much as ...

How safe is Vista, really?

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/How_safe_is_Vista_really'; One of Vista's main missions was to tighten the screws on computer security. With a certificate signing process in place for every piece of "Vista Certified" software, you'd think ...

No rewrite for Windows Vista

Following up on our report earlier today of rumors that 60% of Windows Vista's code would be rewritten before its release, Microsoft uber-blogger Robert Scoble says it's "absolutely not true," and the rumors that developers from the Xbox ...

Microsoft on Vista: It's done!

This morning Windows chief Jim Allchin held a conference call to announce that Microsoft has declared Windows Vista complete. "It's rock solid and we're ready to ship. This is a good day," he said of Microsoft signing off on the final code. CNet ...

Vista delayed, nobody surprised

Just when it was starting to look like Windows Vista was actually going to make its late-'06 ship date, along comes news that the new OS won't be available to consumers until January 2007. Microsoft's Jim Allchin says Vista is being pushed back ...

Windows Vista wallpapers

A blogger called Brajeshwar has posted what looks like a complete set of wallpapers from Windows Vista. Whether they're all really from Vista or not, they're all gorgeous and, if you like greens and nature themes, are well worth the download. You ...

Vista hardware requirements announced

After lots of hemming and hawing, today Microsoft published the official hardware requirements for Windows Vista. There are two classes of requirements: "Vista-capable," which means a computer will run Vista but not many of the bells and whistles, ...

Hackers: 6, Vista: 0

About a month after the business release of Windows Vista, and a month before its consumer release, hackers and security researchers have uncovered at least six major security flaws in Microsoft's brand new operating system, the New York Times is ...

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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