Employees who use Vista at work are suing for overtime after their employers linked their hourly pay to the login and logout procedures of their computer. With Vista taking up to 15 minutes to boot, and 15 minutes to shut down, employees are getting shorted up to 30 minutes per day.
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Computers running Windows Vista are significantly less likely to be infected with attack code than those running Windows XP, though Vista continues to be threatened by Microsoft's own ActiveX browser plug-in technology.
Microsoft is getting heat this week as emails surface as a result of a lawsuit over the "Vista Capable" marketing campaign of 2006. When Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system fell behind schedule, Microsoft decided to launch a campaign that said PCs on sale during the holidays were capable of running Vista. But the lawsuit alleges.
When Windows Vista shipped, it shipped alongside DirectX 10. DirectX 10 would only run with Vista. It wouldn't run with the faster, more stable, more popular Windows XP.
The Labor Department will announce new rules governing when employees can take unpaid time off work, a change that labor advocates say will reduce the number of workers who qualify.
ASRock has a ploy to sell more of its motherboards: Instant Boot. The BIOS update for select MoBos promises to boot XP or Vista systems 10 times faster than standard PCs - in other words, about 3 to 4 seconds from a full shutdown. ASRock achieves this minor of miracles through manipulation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface that Microsoft manipulates for its sleep and hibernate modes.
