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The Vista Daily #1

Since the Vista news has exploded in recent days, I'm going to start doing link posts for the articles that I think are important, but I don't necessarily have anything extra to add to the discussion. Without further ado, here it goes:

ActiveWin's 72-page Vista Review. Holy crap those guys never sleep.
Neowin says the Windows Vista Family Discount is not issuing proper keys. I've passed a note on to upper management, so hopefully this gets resolved quickly.
Sandro Villinger thinks "Living with Vista" got too much credit. I sort of agree, but I think they were trying to tell other families that Microsoft listened to their needs, so I get it. Would have been nice if they had given the Windows online communities a mention, tho.
Windows Aero won't kill performance - "Quite frankly, we were shocked by these results." [via The Electric Wand]
Steve Sinchak corrects dozens of Vista news coverage inaccuracies. [via ActiveWin]
Long Zheng interviews Tjeerd Hoek at CES 2007.
Reuters: Much vaunted Vista security will see challenges. I blogged a bit about this yesterday.
Workaround for Vista Upgrade clean install found.

That's it for today. More tomorrow...

Posted on Jan 31 2007, 02:16 PM by Robert McLaws

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Aaron Parker said:

The URL to the ActiveWin Vista Review has some extra bits in it, so it's not working as expected.

January 31, 2007 7:33 PM
WindowsObserver said:

Robert - thanks for the links like this!

January 31, 2007 10:11 PM
Robert McLaws said:

Aaron, fixed the link. Sorry about that!

February 1, 2007 12:14 AM
Wige said:

If you don't have it, I just wanted to send you a link to a benchmark test that I came across, comparing performance of several games on Windows Vista versus Windows XP with various video cards and memory. Most of the benchmarks seemed to come up fairly even, which suprised me.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6164940/index.html

February 1, 2007 8:25 AM
GT said:

Yeah, I've read similar in CustomPC magazine this month and here http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33879797, though it seems that your graphics card will effect results.

February 1, 2007 11:16 AM
Bryan Fennell said:

Thanks for all the links ...but would you consider removing the Snap previews? I appreciate the effort, but it creates more problems than it solves. Nick Wilson summarized the the case quite well at http://performancing.com/node/5721

Thanks again. :-)

February 1, 2007 3:59 PM
Robert McLaws said:

I already last week, before that post came out. Not sure why you're still seeing them...

February 2, 2007 12:40 PM
Bryan Fennell said:

That is strange. Well, they're gone now, so thanks. The blog seems a lot more responsive too. :-)

February 3, 2007 3:51 PM

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