Valve is putting another nail in the coffin of the should-already-be-dead Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. The company says that starting January 1st, 2019 you won’t be able to use its Steam game platform on either operating system. Steam users will still be able to run the game client on Windows XP or […]
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Apple pulls iTunes Store support for 1st-gen Apple TV, Windows XP and Vista
The original Apple TV was released a little over 11 years ago. And if you’re still hanging onto one, it’s about to get a lot less useful. Apple has announced that the iTunes Store will no longer work with 1st-gen Apple TV devices starting May 25th. The company is also pulling the plug on iTunes […]
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Windows Vista support ends today
Microsoft launched Windows Vista more than 10 years ago… and today the company is finally pulling the plug on the operating system. Mainstream support ended way back in 2012, but Windows Vista extended support ends April 11th, 2017. These days it’s easy to look back on Vista as something of a failure, akin to Microsoft’s […]
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Google Chrome will end support for Windows XP, Vista, and OS X 10.8 in 2016
Microsoft ended support for Windows XP last year, but it’s still installed on a lot of computers. Sure, Internet Explorer and other Microsoft apps aren’t getting software updates anymore, but there’s always Google Chrome, right? Not for long. Google has announced it’s pulling the plug on support for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and OS X […]
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Dell Inspiron Mini now available with 2GB of RAM, Windows Vista
The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 is already one of the most customizable netbooks on the market. It comes with options including a built in TV tuner, GPS receiver, and HD 1366 x 768 pixel display. Now Dell is offering customers the choice of configuring the netbook with 2GB of RAM. Of course, it doesn’t qualify […]
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Acer planning a Windows Vista netbook?
Last week we found out that Acer is planning to build a netbook with a 10.2 inch display. Right now you can only pick up an Acer Aspire One with an 8.9 inch screen, but that hasn’t stopped the Aspire One from becoming one of the most successful netbooks around. Now TG Daily reports there […]
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Dell Inspiron Mini 12: Better with Windows XP
When Laptop Magazine reviewed the Dell Inspiron Mini 12 a few weeks ago, the magazine concluded that the hardware was decent, but that the system performance was substandard thanks in large part to Windows Vista operating system that Dell slapped on the cheap subnotebook (I’m going to refrain from calling a 12 inch notebook a […]
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Windows 7 on a netbook: Eee PC 1000H
As expected, Windows 7 seems to run fairly well on a netbook. Sure, we’ve already seen the boot screen on an MSI Wind. But Laptop Magazine’s Joanna Stern took a pre-beta build of the next generation Windows operating system and slapped it on an Eee PC 1000H and spent a whole day playing with it. […]
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Vista on the Wind a Breath of Fresh Air?
After giving my MSI Wind a good workout with Windows XP for a month, I started to get listless. It was running beautifully, but I just couldn’t help wondering how it would handle a fancy, new OS like Vista. Now, I’m no dope. Step one in my process was swapping out my original 80GB drive […]
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Triple Boot: Windows Vista, XP, and OS X on the MSI Wind
Running OS X Leopard on an MSI Wind is old hat. But triple booting OS X, Windows XP and Vista? That’s something I hadn’t seen before. So here’s a video from seamonkey showing all three operating systems living side by side: It’s worth keeping in mind that this is an upgraded unit with a 250GB […]