Users attempting to upgrade from Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition to Windows 7 Build 7100 (the unofficial RC1 release leak), are greeted with the following "compatibility warning" dialog:
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition’s "Ultimate Extras" have been a constant source of derision and anger from Vista users ever since its release 3 years ago. If the blog [...]
Published by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi February 15th, 2009
in Design, Google, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Windows
Tags: Chrome, Design, Google, GTK, Linux, Microsoft, OS X, Qt, Software, User Interface, Web OS, Win32, Windows
A recent article on OSNews highlights the changes expected to come in Google’s Chrome 2.0 for Windows and the progress being made on the Linux and OS X fronts for Google’s new browser.
In the article, Ben Goodger, lead Chrome UI developer, states
[Google avoids] cross platform UI toolkits because while they may offer what superficially appears [...]
NeoSmart Technologies’ gallery of Windows Vista wallpapers has been a huge hit over the past several years – despite what anyone might say about Vista itself, its collection of wallpapers and fonts is top-notch. And now it seems that Windows 7 isn’t going to be any different – from what we’ve seen, the wallpapers shipping [...]
NeoSmart Technologies first released ToolTipFixer to great acclaim last June, over a year ago now. Since then, the downloads have kept on pouring in – along with a number of suggestions that we’ve taken to heart and hopefully implemented in a way that will please our users.
You can now download ToolTipFixer 2.0 which has a [...]
Published by NeoSmart Technologies September 11th, 2008
in Hardware, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Windows
Tags: Bungie, Ensemble Studios, Gaming, Gaming Consoles, Halo, Microsoft, Software, Windows, Xbox
For the past decade-and-a-half, “Windows” has been synonymous with “PC Gaming” – after all, no other PC platform has managed to satiate the undying hunger gamers are quite famous for. But now it seems that Windows is on the verge of losing its distinction as the gaming platform of choice – with nothing but [...]
Published by NeoSmart Technologies August 19th, 2008
in NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Software, Windows
Tags: Apache, IIS, ISAPI_Rewrite, PHP, Request_URI for IIS, Servers, Windows
Request_URI for IIS, NeoSmart Technologies’ compatibility toolkit for IIS on Windows, has been updated to version 1.1, with support for Helicon’s ISAPI_Rewrite 3.x
With this update the installation process has been simplified somewhat, in particular the need modify HTTPD.INI to set the server variables has been eliminated – you just need to install ISAPI_Rewrite 3, configure [...]
Published by NeoSmart Technologies August 18th, 2008
in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Windows
Tags: Dual Boot, EasyBCD, InfoWorld, Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP
InfoWorld has an article out today wherein Randall Kenney of the “Windows Sentinel” team (a program used to monitor system settings and performance to provide aggregate data for analysis) trashes end-user uptake of Windows Vista by revealing that 35% of surveyed PCs that ship with Vista have downgraded to Windows XP.
While that’s a stunning [...]
Published by NeoSmart Technologies June 1st, 2008
in Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Programming, Windows
Tags: Coding, Kernels, Linux, Microsoft, OS X, Programming, Shipping Seven, Windows, Windows 7
A blog titled Shipping Seven has gotten a lot of traffic recently for their article about Windows 7 and the MinWin kernel – namely, how they’re actually one and the same. The argument offered by “Soma” is that Windows Vista’s kernel (which is what Windows 7 will be built on) is MinWin ad that it’s [...]
ATi has just released the Catalyst 8.5 drivers for Windows XP and Vista, you can download a copy here (hotlinking to the actual driver page is disabled).
The entire 8.x line has been of sub-par quality to date (8.3 and 8.4 in particular, which seem to crash randomly on a large percentage of Vista machines), hopefully [...]
Published by NeoSmart Technologies April 27th, 2008
in Microsoft, Programming, Security, Software, Windows
Tags: Architecture, Coding, iReboot, Programming, Security, Services, Software, UAC, Vista, Windows
Back in August of 2007, NeoSmart Technologies released iReboot 1.0 – a tiny application that sits quietly and unobtrusively in the taskbar and is used to select which OS you’d like to reboot into.
iReboot isn’t by any means a major application, but it’s gathered a pretty strong following over the months, mostly by people [...]