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Vista since its release has taken some fairly large criticisms for some pretty high profile places and people, in certain cases for good reason. Well some of you may or may not heard (if not where have you been?) that Apple have released their new operating system; Leopard. Since it hit our shelves I have been reading the reviews and news [...]

It was just four days ago since I posted about the state that is the Windows Mobile user interface and why in its current form it will never attract the mass market. Well today the Windows Mobile team posted about Neo, the new interface created in collaboration with T-Mobile for their upcoming Shadow.   It’s good to [...]

There have been many complaints about the Vista performance issues and many opinions voiced about the reasons for this but for those who are trying to stick Vista out, now have a few options to help them out on the day to day running of Microsoft’s new OS. This includes this nice TechSpot guide which contains many tweaks to [...]

Its not a myth, its simple fact that the mobile browsing is one of the biggest let downs when using Windows Mobile. Well Pocketables have written a mobile browers comparison which is very interesting and well worth a read. In my opinion the mobile browsing experience won’t be good enough until its comparable to the [...]

WMExperts posted an article regarding an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 due to be released in February and shipping on devices in May. The upgrade will be intended for smartphones and gives the user a scrolling interface similar to what Microsoft and Vodaphone developed for the Palm Treo v500.  pocketinfo.nl reported that 6.1 is going to be [...]

Everyone knows that Vista is bloated, its a big operating system because Microsoft have tried to cram every last possible function in to it. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, many people use many functions and Microsoft’s approach is to ensure that most users get what they need out of box. The mobile device market [...]

Craig Pringle has added his opinion on the on going Vista performance debate, I hadn’t heard of Craig until he got a mention on GBM on this very issue. A lot of the points he makes I agree with and have stated so in one of my recent posts about how good the Vista performance is [...]

There is a fairly interesting interview with Mike Nash corporate vice president in charge of Windows client operating systems product management at Microsoft. He talks about some of the key components and issues of Vista and what SP1 will include and address. Its really from an developers point of view and the first 5 of the [...]

Apologies for the late manner of this post but I have been busy over the bank holiday period. I read James Kendricks post on the performance issues with Vista a few days ago and it got me thinking about a few things. I have never really suffered any real issues with Vista and I think [...]