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Xandros Professional 4 lists for $99, versus anticipated Windows Vista pricing of $199. But Google Docs and OpenOffice are free, Firefox just works, and with Skype for Linux and sites like Meebo.com -- which offers free, web-based instant messaging on all the big services -- communication applications are free and completely available on Linux. (I'm sure there will be a point where I just get my daughter a Skype account instead of letting her tie up the home phone line talking to her friends after school.)

Vista is gonna face bumpy roads ahead!

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“Now that businesses have access to Windows Vista and 2007 Office System, we've only just begun. I've said it before and I'll say it again: when it comes to the consumer market launch of these two products, stay on your toes, as we've got some amazing things in store for you between now and the end of January,” said Nick White, a Product Manager at Microsoft working on the Windows Vista launch team.

“Time is sort of a funny thing,” stated Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “You need to give new technologies time to incubate before you try to bring them together. Let each technology come to market individually and then do the integration.”

The wait is already been hyped a lot and now the talk of many surprises is gonna make it chillier!

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Microsoft is testing a new homepage and - much to my surprise - it integrates seamlessly with Firefox 2.0. I must confess that I wasn't expecting it. But enough with this. The new homepage has Windows design nuances. In this regard, Microsoft has introduced design changes over a variety of products to synchronize with the visual perspective of its latest OS.

Symantec, a US$5 billion company and the fourth largest software company in the world, is aiming high. It wants to be a US$10 billion by 2010.

But looks like the new rivals Microsoft is all set to bring it down from being a US$5 Billion company. Thompson, Symantec CEO, knows that if Microsoft is successful in leveraging Vista to cut Symantec out of the Windows security market, then Symantec can forget about being a US$10 billion company. It will have trouble staying a US$5 billion company.

Courtesy: iTWire

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Most of the time beta testers use the beta software versions provided to them without submitting any bug! Microsoft is now making deal to change the scene. It will give out free copies of vista to those beta testers who submit atleast one real time bug.

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Microsoft Corp took 18 months to find the right tune for Windows Vista’s start up sound, and the soft da-dum with a lush fade last a mere 4 seconds. Reminds me of Windows 95’s ’start me up tune’ by Rolling Stones. It was believed that Microsoft paid millions for the right to use rolling stone’s few seconds of tune on Windows 95 - rumors, but this time around, Vista’s tune which took 18 months is definitely a million dollar tune.