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Vista Bootcamp

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Apple released an update to its Bootcamp software the other day - the thing that lets you boot Windows and other olde worlde BIOS-based operating systems.
This new version supports Vista, so I thought I’d give it a go properly (I’d previously used Vista without the Aero stuff.)
My machine is a MacPro 2.66ghz quad-core woodcrest doodah, [...]

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Got an iPod? Forget Vista

Friday, February 9, 2007

It’s quite well known now that if you’re a PC user and run Vista, you are going to have trouble with iTunes and your iPod. Now it looks like there are lots of Apple products that don’t work well with Microsoft’s new offering.
I wonder why this is? Did Apple do nothing until the release? Microsoft [...]

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Vista Wow? Yawn

Sunday, February 4, 2007

Someone sent me a link to the Windows Vista Wow Prize draw, where you get to watch three demos of Vista, then get free entry into a prize draw.
I needed a laugh, so why not?
Like Vista, you need to click endlessly on a sequence of buttons to get anything done, with an annoying perceptible delay [...]

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