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180 million copies of Windows Vista have been purchased

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I'm not shy about my enthusiasm for Windows Vista. I have run it on a wide range of machines - old and new, big and small. I was impressed by Vista's performance on my five year old laptop - the Operating System automatically measured the hardware performance and adjusted it's configuration accordingly to make the best of what was available. The machine in question did have 1Gb of RAM which WAS more than most corporate laptops back in 2003 and this certainly helped Vista.

Microsoft's recent 4th quarter earning report included the statistic that 180 million copies of Windows Vista have been purchased by customers Worldwide.

In my experience it's critical to make sure you have the latest drivers for your hardware devices to ensure optimum performance - the VAST majority of these are available from Windows Update and can easily be accessed by "update driver" as follows:

Type "Device Manager" in the search box at the bottom of the "Start" menu, select the Device Manager from the list then navigate to the "Update driver" menu item as shown below by selecting the device that's not performing as you'd expect and clicking the right mouse button:

Certainly there are some computers that simply don't have sufficient device driver support though thankfully most machines produced in the last three years have full support.

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Steve sent me a mail the other day which I thought I’d let you know about in case you’re using a BlackBerry

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    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2008
    Having the latest drivers isn't always the best thing! If the system is stable and not causing any problems then it isn't necessarily a wise move to update drivers, unless you're doing it for security reasons! A few months back, Windows Update installed the latest NVIDIA drivers onto my mother's shiny Vista system. It then started to Blue Screen on a regular basis. Restored the older driver and voila, back to a stable and efficient OS that doesn't Blue Screen. Here was me thinking that NVIDIA had finally got on top of Vista drivers and then they release a flaky one. Regards John

  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2008
    According to Paul Thurrot form winsupersite.com (he does an excellent podcast with Leo Laporte), Vista is the fastest ever selling OS by Microsoft, with faster uptake to even Windows 2000 or XP. I've been using mine for a year now and can also highly recommend. The security features alone are worth the upgrade/new purchase. W

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    July 23, 2008
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    September 07, 2008
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