“Burlington, Massachusetts-based security firm Sophos, whose labs have been testing Vista, on Thursday released a top 10 list of virus concerns. The researcher said that Vista is already vulnerable via web email to the Stratio-Zip worm, which is the most widely circulated piece of malware.”
From RedHerring comes this article quoting security experts concerns about Windows Vista.
I tried Windows Vista on a Microsoft insiders laptop last night and was shockingly underwhelmed, unfortunately, despite some fancy effects, it is as unhelpful as ever. Thirty seconds into testing it, I was pining for my macbook.
I look forward to welcoming a huge amount of new switchers to Apple over the next few years. All PC users are impressed when they see OSX Tiger even in comparison to Vista, so just wait until Leopard, it’ll blow away Vista, and by the way, will capably run on a g4 mac, compared to vista (which won’t run on a friend of mines 11 month old, 17 inch widescreen laptop!)
Happy Computing.
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Windows Vista is being launched to business customers today in NYC, forbes highlight some of its bloated features in this article. But I’ve picked put some lowlights of this new operating sytem which consensus agrees is nothing more than a poor photocopy of Osx.
Vista, which will go on sale to consumers on Jan. 30, 2007, needs 1 gigabyte of memory to tile through its three-dimensional effects
Vista Consumers’ collective cost to upgrade their computers’ memory to support Vista will likely reach $17.5 billion, estimates Tom Trill, marketing director for Samsung Semiconductor, the world’s largest memory chipmaker. Computers sold this year have an average of 854 megabytes of memory, up from 630 megabytes last year, he said. To get their old machines ready for Vista, the upgrade cost will run most people $50 to $100 per computer.
For comparison, Osx Tigers amazing 3d core animations visible thoughout run on a minimum requirement of just 256mb Ram!, and according totheplaceforitall.com, Next generation Osx Leopard will also require only 256mb ram!
That’s good news for Microsoft, which can afford to develop so-far unprofitable products like the Xbox videogame console and the Zune portable music player thanks to Windows’ 70% operating margin.
Pretty disappointing that Microsoft can reap a 70% margin on this product, if they increased their spending on OS development, and lowered their margins, couldn’t they create a leaner meaner OS? Sure but you have to see they are taking care of their friends in the RAM business:
Vista Consumers’ collective cost to upgrade their computers’ memory to support Vista will likely reach $17.5 billion
Via Engadget, Regarding “Palm’s Ed Colligan laughs off iPhone”
“Gates isn’t Jobs, and Steve’s phone certainly isn’t going to be riddled with the same issues as our beloved WinMo. No, the iPhone will have its own set of annoying issues, but believe you us, Ed, Apple will “just walk in,” so you’d better have a few and-one-more-thing-s up those sleeves of yours if you’re thinking about stopping a mass defection.”
I wanted to let you all know about a great iPod accessory I picked up in the last few days, the Logitech Audiostation Express is a sleek speaker system for your iPods, it works with ANY iPods on the market, and operates off mains power or six ‘AA’ batteries.
Of all the iPod speakers on the market, the Audiostation Express has at least one clear benefit, which is a Video output Jack. No other iPod speakers I found could provide this feature which is a great asset to the speakers, it means that if you’re in the car, a hotel room or one of your rooms in your house, wherever there’s a TV or video capable screen, you can take the output from the iPod video and watch it on the full screen, while getting great sounding audio from your logitech speakers.
This product is not now on sale yet in the U.S from Apple , but is available in Europe from Amazon.co.uk here
I’ve launched a new google supported, helpful service, people after a time, have issues and problems with their Apple Might Mouse, the scroll ball can become unresponsive, and the keys on the originally pristine keyboard can become less perfect. Which is why I’m happy to announce my service, available by clicking here: Mighty Mouse Care, Maintenance
As of this post, iTunes Store is not providing relevance on searches anymore. Being no expert on how relevance ranking operated (I believe it was related to keywords), I’m leaning towards being in favour of dropping the relevance ranking system from iTunes, after all, Google works out relevance using complex algorithms so its wise of Apple to drop a ranking sytem thats too elementary (basing relevance on keywords was obsoleted when google introduced its model, links to and from, context of links, quality and traffic of referer)
