"Gadgets are now integrated into explorer. You can right click on desktop and select "Add Gadget" or "Hide Gadget". There is a new gadget called "Windows Media Center" that displays now playing information from the WMC. On the same menu, "Display" is added above "Personalization" which gives you direct access to display DPI settings. The page is much more polished than the one in Vista.
The start menu features a pin besides each item. Clicking on it toggles pinning/unpinning the item. Search in explorer is now states where you search within (usually being within the folder, as in Vista). You can now, however, adjust the size of the search box.
XAML fonts, called the "Composite Fonts" are now added to the font folder. Perhaps WPF will be much more prominent in this release. It's disappointing that I don't have Aero running, or otherwise there might be some interesting stuffs to see.
A new application is added, dubbed the "XPS Viewer", no surprises, either," says Parker.
Apparently, there will also be refreshed Paint, Calculator and Wordpad applications, all based on the Windows Presentation Foundation and you'll be able to save/carry your IE favorites/settings with you using your Windows Live account. Finally, another thing worth mentioning is the new, bright boot screen.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
They should be implementing ideas like this into vista right now?
I don't think Vista's sales are that terrible... or are day?
Anyway, I haven't personally tried Vista but everyone that has tried it tells me that it is beyond garbage.
Still, no matter how good or bad a windows turns out, I'll wait for 2 to 3 years before upgrading.
People who say Vista is garbage pretty much don't know what they're talking about. It is leaps and bounds ahead of XP and of course Windows itself is superior to Mac and Linux. People who complain about it most likely don't know the way it works or are repeating hearsay.
This is what u call junk not news. This is some idiots using a program called "Windows vista blinds" to change the interference and manipulate some of the outputs.
They set the req for vista to high people that upgraded from XP to vista are going to see a performance hit because they aren't upgrading hardware.