After Microsoft has postponed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP already several times, also due to compatibilityproblems, AMD users are now reporting problems with SP3. In some cases the computer will not start anymore, in others the computer crashes during installation.
Dr. Jesper M. Johansson, Microsoft expert, gives solutions for these problems in his blog.
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According to Microsoft, the first Windows Vista Service Pack (SP1) is ready and shall be shipped to PC dealers soon. The update version for Windows users will be available from mid of march.
Using the Windows Update function, the system is only downloading new parts which will be approximately 65MB of download, while the full [...]

Apple released its Safari webbrowser now also for Windows. Like the iTunes music player, the new software shall convince more users to switch to the mac platform. The new Safari for Windows is now already available as a preview version, which actully still seems to have some little problems.

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With new Parallels 3 software it is now possible to run 3D games written for Windows on a Mac - while in coherence mode still being able to use the standard Mac desktop or its applications. Therefore, the Apple has to be equipped with an Intel cpu and needs the Parallels 3 software:

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Microsoft published a new version of it’s free e-mail client Hotmail which is now called Windows Live Hotmail. According to information from Microsoft, the service will work faster and more securely. In comparison to the old version, the new post box doubled the amount of storage space from 1 GB to now 2 GB. The [...]

Microsoft offers a new patch for Windows Vista to prevent the need to reactivate Vista on a computer. This could happen, when new software or new drivers are installed or deleted again.
Microsoft writes in its knowledge base article: “You may be prompted to activate Windows Vista on a computer on which Windows Vista activation was [...]

Finally, Nvidia offers its GeForce 8800 drivers now for Windows Vista for free download from the Nvidia website. According to a Nvidia spokeswoman this shall now be the final version, but still might be optimized later. The driver is needed to use the new DirectX 10 functions of Windows Vista. (nro)

Windows XP was more successful than the Vista in the beginning, according to sales figures of the boxed version in the first week. Windows Vista is on sale for private users since January 30th. The sales are nearly 59% less than the sales of Windows XP says market research firm NPD on ZD Net Asia.
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Microsofts new security feature UAC (User Account Control) seems not as secure as thought before. Now Microsoft employee Mark Russinovich explains, that “it should be clear then, that neither UAC elevations nor Protected Mode IE define new Windows security boundaries”.
According to the german security magazine heise.de this means, that the promoted new features will not [...]

Sun’s 3D Desktop project “Looking Glass” features a new way to handle icons, folder-windows and applications on a screen: Instead of just displaying them in two dimensions above each other, windows can be turn to the side.
The software runs at the moment in Java and is available for Linux and Solaris, where it shall work [...]