SwitchingToMac.Com: Why Switch from PC to Mac?

Like many others you are considering Switching from PC to Mac – Here’s some key points to help you make your decision. Read more.

Nvidia’s “Windows Vista Capable” Faces Lawsuit.

Windows Vista users’ ongoing frustrations with graphics-card maker Nvidia have boiled over. A new Web site, NvidiaClassAction.info, created by IT consultant Dan Goldman, is gauging whether there is sufficient user interest to launch a class-action suit against Nvidia over the vendor’s allegedly spotty Windows Vista support. Read more.

Users force Dell to resurrect XP

Responding to customer demand Dell has restarted selling new PCs with Windows XP installed on them.  The decision reverses a policy begun in January that meant Windows Vista was the only operating system available on almost all new home machines.The change came after Dell’s feedback site was swamped with calls for the return of the venerable software.

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Microsoft to pay out $180 million to Iowa individuals and businesses.

A judge provided preliminary approval to a settlement between Microsoft and a class-action case in Iowa, accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive practices. The company has agreed to pay out up to $180 million to affected individuals and businesses.

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Feature: Eight Reasons Why the Xbox 360 Elite Isn’t Elite

On April 29, Microsoft will release their third flavor of 360 ice cream — the black Xbox 360 Elite. Let’s not be coy; the reason in adding a third, more expensive 360 is solely due to the existence of the $600 PS3. Since the inception of game consoles, prices have traditionally dropped with age, not increased. But If Sony can sell 3 million….

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Only 244 copies of Genuine Windows Vista sold in China

Microsoft spent millions of dollars advertising its next generation OS ‘Windows Vista’ in China, in fact the IT juggernaut threw up the biggest Vista Ad on the 421 meter high Jin Mao tower in Shanghai China.

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Word Vulnerability Compromised US State Dept.

“Apparently hackers using an undisclosed (at the time) vulnerability compromised the State Departments network using a Word document sent as an email attachment. Investigators found multiple instances of infection, informed Microsoft, then had to sever internet connectivity to avoid leaking too much data!” Read more.

SwitchingToMac.Com: Killing The Myth – Games Galore For The New Mac

I have been a gamer since the days of the Atari 800 console. My first real computer was a Sinclair ZX-81, quickly followed by the master of all game machines, the Commodore 64. Then In logical progression I moved on to the Amiga A500, then onto the A1200 and finally in 1995 I moved over to the PC. What caused this method of progressing through the computer world? Why choose one over the other? The answer for me – as it was for many – was Games. Simply put I was following the platform that supported the best Computer Games. Back in those days it was easy to see what was better, which computer to choose, and which was not so impressive. This can be seen happening today in the console industry, but what about the Computer Industry? Read more.

5 Things I Hate About Windows Vista

Microsoft have recently announced its new OS, the highly we’ve-been-waiting-for Vista. While it looks splendid and very Web 2.0-ish, it is another money-sucking phenomenon from the Bill Gates empire. Through certain ‘behind the curtains’ deals with vendors and dealers Microsoft will soon make billions of bucks on selling the castrated Vista Home Basic. Below are five reasons I think Windows Vista should be hated for and I believe you’ll share ‘em! Read more.

TUAW Guide: Xbox 360 and Mac

In many reviews of the Apple TV, the Xbox 360 was often mentioned as a competing Media Extender product.I thought it would be good to discover the ways in which my two pretty white boxes can work together. In this Guide to Xbox 360 and the Mac, I’m going to discuss some of both the hardware and software compatibilities between the machines.

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Apple Media Center Planned

Diagrams suggest that a ‘modular controller’, most likely their new TV squirting device, would sit at the middle allowing you to hook up anything from branded hi-def DVD players, a PVR, a Mac Mini or even their own freeview box.

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Lawsuit spotlights Vista’s hefty hardware needs

A lawsuit filed last week against Microsoft Corp. alleges that some of the people who bought machines labeled as “capable” of running the OS were misled because some of the systems could only run Windows Vista Home Basic — not the Premium edition. Jeffrey Thomas, an attorney at Gordon Murray Tilden LLP in Seattle, which filed the suit, called the Premium edition of Vista “the real Vista.” Read more.

[H]ard|OCP Spends 30 Days With Vista.

When trying to decide whether to upgrade from Windows XP or 2000 to Windows Vista, it is all too tempting for many people – myself included – to come into it with prejudices and presumptions, and the rumor mill is rife with what Vista can and cannot let you do. Many forum posters say that Vista is nothing but trouble – others say that everything works flawlessly. The differences are so stark that it often seems like two different operating systems are being discussed. Read more.

Microsoft sued over deceptive Windows Vista marketing.

A lawsuit alleges that Microsoft Corp. engaged in deceptive practices by letting PC makers promote computers as “Windows Vista Capable” even if they couldn’t run the new operating system’s “signature” features. The proposed class action, which Microsoft disputes, was filed on behalf of personal-computer buyer Dianne Kelley of Camano Island. It focuses on efforts by Microsoft and computer makers to avoid a lull in PC sales by assuring consumers that the machines they were buying last year could run the delayed operating system upon its January release. Read more.