Thanks Giving holidays are coming pretty soon. Well, it might be me only thinking about the upcoming end of the year holidays, but Vista Discuss editors are here to remind you one crucial point when you are ready to shop for your favorite laptops. The crucial point is look for the Windows Vista Capable logo if you plan to jump into Windows Vista Wandagon in the future. Why ? Because Windows Vista is a gigantic Godzilla that sucks all your resources easily if you don’t have advanced and top-notch hardware configurations.

Here are the list of laptops which certified by Toshiba as Windows Vista Capable

1. Portege M40
2. Qosmio G35
   G35-AV600, G35-AV610, G35-AV650, G35-AV660
3. Tecra M4
4. Tecra M5 (PTM50U)
5. Tecra M5 (PTM51U)

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Microsoft has given a pretty clear hint that the introduction of Windows Vista operating system will be delayed once again. This time, instead of blaming the development team, Microsoft points her finger to the European Commission saying that the European Commission’s antitrust requirements force Microsoft to delay the birth of Windows Vista in Europe.

However, the representive of European Commision said “It is not up to the Commission to give Microsoft a green light before Vista is put on the market; it is up to Microsoft to accept and implement its responsibilities as a near-monopolist to ensure full compliance with EU competition rules.”

Hence, Windows Vista’s birtdate still remains to be uncertain.

[via News.com]

Microsoft still have to work hard to make Windows Vista a more stable operating system. The screenshot above is what a user got from her Windows Vista Beta 2. It is an interesting question that if we do kill the programs above, what will happen to the Windows Vista as those programs are the main programs that run the Windows.

via Gizmodo

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One of the latest technology that powered Windows Vista is the SuperFetch technology that makes your favorite programs load faster. How the SuperFetech technology works is it studies the programs that an individual user frequently runs and loads them into memory automatically (be ready to have all your memory sucks by Windows Vista).

For instance, if you run Adobe Photoshop and Firebox every single day, ten Windows Vista will be smart enough to load these applications at start-up .

Hence, in perfect world, Windows Vista susposingly load programs faster because of SuperFetch technology.

Nevertheless, suse Linux kernel developer Andrea Arcangeli was skeptical about this technology. He said “”It might help on a 128MB system that flushes the cache away very fast, but on a 1GB system I doubt it can make a significant difference, and at first glance, it doesn’t seem to be worth the complexity it would introduce,” the Imola, Italy-based developer said in an e-mail interview.”

Arcangeli also said that “in many cases, preloading new memory means flushing away an existing cache. “So it’s not like it’s a “risk-free” operation,” he said. “It may be a good trade-off but it can actually slowdown the system instead of making it faster.”"

We are going to see whether Windows can really beat Linux in terms of performance.

via News.com

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According to the software in the Internet (Windows IT Pro), Microsoft has decided to make the release date of Windows Vista to be December 7 of 2006 which kind of what we expect in the beginning.

The report, which claims to be based on “very recent internal Microsoft documentation”, said the first release candidate of the operating system, RC0, will appear on 19 April next year, with the second release candidate due on 28 June 2006.

Read “Windows Vista Release Date Set to Be December 7, 2006 ?”

Microsoft has released the first security patch for going-to-be-released Windows Vista operating system.

The patch fixes a vulnerability in the way the operating system’s Graphics Rendering Engine processes Windows Meta File images. That bug was first discovered late last month as it was being exploited by cybercriminals to load spyware, adware and other malicious code onto the PCs of unwitting Windows users.

Read “First Patch for Windows Vista”