Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
Windows Server Longhorn Beta 3 review
Friday, May 4th, 2007Just last week, Microsoft released beta 3 of its newest Windows Server revision to the general computing public. While Windows Vista and Office 2007 have stolen a lot of publicity thunder over the past few months with their recent final releases, Microsoft has been slowly but surely churning out its update to Windows on the [...]
Ubuntu Linux Vs. Windows Vista
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007The prevailing wisdom about Linux on the desktop runs something like this: “I’ll believe Linux is ready for the desktop as soon as you can give me a Linux distribution that even my grandmother can run.” For some time, the folks at Ubuntu have been trying their best to make Granny — and most everyone [...]
Vista Expert: Why I Donot Like Vista
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007For more than a year, I poked and prodded my way through hundreds of Windows Vista menus and dialog boxes. But after I finished writing “Windows Vista For Dummies” and “Upgrading and Fixing PCs For Dummies,” I turned off my Vista PC. On the rare occasion I fire it up to double-check a few settings, [...]
Why Windows Vista is not ready for geeks
Friday, March 23rd, 2007This article was supposed to be about streamlining Vista. My goal was to poke through the registry, service list, control panel and computer management panel to find, document and tweak anything that would make Vista run a little bit better and then benchmark 3D programs on a streamlined copy of Vista against XP. However, I’ve [...]
Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Windows Vista has had something of a troubled birth. Hyped features were pulled, and the project as a whole took far longer to complete than expected, partly due to standing still while MS dropped everything to work on Windows XP Service Pack 2, but in part also due to a decision to "reset" and scrap [...]
Windows Vista Media Center Review
Saturday, March 10th, 2007You might recall during the beta period I wrote a review about Windows Vista Media Center, and the drastic changes, mostly in the UI that I noticed. Although the changes were somewhat drastic and took a little bit getting used to, I absoluted loved them, and the love continues to grow with time. [...]
Windows Vista vs. Windows XP vs. Ubuntu Linux
Friday, February 16th, 2007While the Operating System of choice is still Microsoft, even Microsoft currently has a choice. MS Vista, the new kid on the block, has some promising features and definite sex appeal. What we at VL want to find out, does it have performance to match, or is it just a prettier more laden version of [...]
A Few Thoughts About Windows Vista
Friday, February 16th, 2007I purchased a new computer this week and specified that it should have Windows Vista Home Premium pre-installed at the factory. I was able to take the computer out of the box, boot up, and start using Vista within a few minutes. I had read quite a bit about Vista’s improvements and wanted to try [...]
The New and Unexplored World of Vista
Sunday, February 4th, 2007As old as Windows XP is, there’s something strangely comforting about it to a lot of people. We’re familiar with it, it’s been there for us through the good times and the bad, and even though it may be outdated in a lot of ways, we know what to expect from it, and there’s a [...]
Windows Vista Home Premium Review
Sunday, February 4th, 2007…We’ve been playing with the final code for the last 6 weeks and while at first the new OS takes a little time to get to grips with, it’s a vast improvement over XP. The new interface is similar to what we are used to but the use of the Aero engine, which allows for [...]
