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Live Messenger and Vista

It turns out that Windows Vista and Live Messenger don’t play well together. The culprit seems to be Adobe Flash. Even after the suggested fix, it still has the possibility of crashing. UPDATE: After searching around some more online, I came across this fix for Acer laptops. A setting in their security management software was [...]

Exchange 2003 OWA and Vista’s Internet Explorer issues

We recently acquired a Microsoft Vista machine to aid us in testing its compatibility with our software. As we started to test a few things, we noticed that we had an issue with OWA; when replying to a message, we’d get what looked like a broken image in the area where you would type your [...]

Windows Vista RC1 download

Windows Vista RC1 download site.

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor

Microsoft has released a Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor for you to see if your PC is compatible with Windows Vista. Unfortunately, mine wasn’t compatible. If I wanted to take advantage of the Aero features, I’d have to upgrade the video card on the laptop.