As we all know, Vista will let us add more memory in the form of USB-based flash drives using a SuperFetch technology. Wondering does any one had any luck or experience in using this. I am sure the folks from Microsoft who has access to early builds of Vista might have tried. We hope to see someone talking on this from MSDN blogs, atleast the Vista team.
As reported by the Inquirer, Vita will support full volume encryption to prevent disk access to files by other operating systems. That means if you have multi-boot OS, the OS other than Vista will not see any files from the hard disk which has Full Control permission.
Check the article for more information on why Vista needs to do this.
As Microsoft Vista will probably come in at least seven different editions, the enterprise edition seems to be in controversy now.
The Enterprise Edition has the features like Virtual PC and Secure Start up and Full Volume Encryption. To have this, one needs to sign up for Microsoft’s Software Assurance (SA) upgrade and protection program. SA benefits include timely access to software upgrades, 24/7 hot line support, and fee-free cold spares.
However making SA mandatory is making the Enterprise IT admins and users unhappy with whether they can use Enterprise edition or not.
For complete info, check the article from Computer World.
If you wanted to know more about what people wishes to include in Vista aka code name Longhorn, check the following threads:
Microsoft Vista conference call notes by ZDNet’s David Berlind — Yesterday was my first conference call with Microsoft since finally installing Vista. In fact, since first installing Vista, I’ve reinstalled it about four times. As my testing continues and new builds are released, we’ll continue to do these calls in order to get whatever questions I have answered. During the process, I’m also giving
Another nice writeup from David is Microsoft: Improvements in Vista’s network performance may be frightening (fast).
Today on Vista, it asked me to turn on the automatic updates and I scheduled it for 3.00 AM everyday.
After few minutes got a notification that I have updates and asked to go ahead with express install. After the install is done, it popped up a dialog telling the updates were unsuccessful for my SoundMAX integrated Digital Audio. But it did not display any other info why the installation was unsuccessful. Anyway, I clicked on OK and the Automatic Updates dialog disappeared.
But again after few minutes got the same notification back that I have some updates for my system, and up on clicking on either express or custom install, the same process continues with failed update to the same SoundMax Audio.
I do not know why the above update failed as it is not giving any more info, and even after the failure not sure why it is keep asking me that I have the same updates for the system.
If you want to install Vista as a guest Operating System on your existing OS, you can use any of the following technologies:
Here is the steps that I did to install Vista on Virtual Server 2005:
Now booted with 2003 installer CD, and I can see that the disk is now labelled with unpartioned…hmmmm. My guess is, the partition creation that I did within virtual machine might have caused this problem. Must be a bug from Virtual Server when using Vista. Anyway, with this I needed to reinstall the OS as there is no other option left nor I can fix it as the 2003 CD installer also could not identify any existing OS on that disk. I am still trying to get this 2003 server up2date.
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