he article tries to brief you on some of the common steps that you can take to repair your Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System. If you are experiencing startup issues with your Vista operating system or you can’t seem to use the Vista system restore option.
Haven’t yet switched to Windows 7? Windows 7 has a different feel from either Vista or XP. In most cases, you won’t decide whether it’s better for you until you get used to it. But the differences are generally easy to figure out even without an expert to guide you.
Windows 7 saw healthy growth in web-tracked usage in its first full month of release while Mac OS X found itself moving in a direction Cupertino is not used to: downward. The web-watchers at NetApplications report that when tracked on a daily basis, Windows 7 now accounts for five per cent of operating systems using the web. Averaged over the month of November, four per cent of web traffic went to machines running Windows 7.
Microsoft Corp. has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 in its first few weeks than any previous version of the operating system, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said. Mr. Ballmer, speaking Thursday at Microsoft’s annual shareholder meeting, described the initial Windows 7 reception as “fantastic” but didn’t provide a specific figure for sales since the Oct. 22 release. Since the software giant sold about 20 million copies of Windows Vista in its first month on the market that would put initial Windows 7 sales at roughly 40 million units.
Windows users running 64-bit versions of the operating system are less likely to get infected by attack code, Microsoft’s security team said yesterday. But that doesn’t mean they won’t, countered an outside security researcher. “64-bit Windows has some of the lowest reported malware infection rates in the first half of 2009,” said Joe Faulhaber of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center in a post to the group’s blog yesterday. “64-bit malware is still exceedingly rare in the wild.”

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