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POPSMicrosoft Mulls Instant-On It's a safe bet that the next Windows operating system will boast faster load times than Vista, which has been consistently criticized for taking ages to start up. Whether or not that will mean an "instant on" feature is up for debate -- but I'd love to see it.
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POPSXP and Vista Service Packs Knocked Out The new XP service pack reportedly applies some helpful speed boosts to users' systems, so there's a lot of folks waiting for it. The fact that Microsoft issued a service pack with a major bug in it is not encouraging.
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POPSA Reprieve for Windows XP Ballmer can spin the stats however he wants, but there is still tremendous resistance to Vista both from corporate and home users. Keeping XP as an option would be a smart use, because if consumers are forced to choose Vista, they might buy a Mac instead.
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POPSMicrosoft Forced To Give XP Another Reprieve Plain and simple, most people don't want Vista. It's telling to look at the poll results in this story -- 45.7% of users say they're holding out as long as they can before switching, and a huge 32.3% say they will never switch.
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POPSMicrosoft Slashes Vista Prices This is a really unusual move for Microsoft, and may betray the company's concerns about how poorly the operating system has been received.
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POPSVista Update Makes Things Worse Vista users can not get a break! The new OS is sluggish and buggy enough as is -- and then an update that's supposed to fix it makes things worse.
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POPSMicrosoft Gives Away 85 Million PCs This is an interesting strategy -- Microsoft is at a major disadvantage in developing countries, where free operating systems like Linux are way more attractive than expensive, proprietary Windows.
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POPSMom Puts Microsoft's Ballmer On The Spot The anti-Vista backlash is strong, and growing. It's nothing new for a Microsoft OS upgrade to be met with complaints and moaning, but this time it seems unusually extreme. People are actually uninstalling Vista and going back to XP... will the trend get even bigger and continue to hurt Microsoft?
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