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• Windows 7 migration underway at Immigration Department

  The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) is ditching XP and giving Vista a miss in favour of desktop refresh to Windows 7 to help the agency improve staff collaboration.
  

• AusCert 2010: Brilliant engineers in Microsoft walled-garden, says Linux expert

  Linux communities are hostile and Microsoft is a walled garden "stuffed-full of brilliant engineers", according to a former Linux, now Microsoft engineer, Crispin Cowan.

• Windows 7 SP1 means end of XP downgrade rights

  The clock is ticking on the demise of some downgrade rights for Windows 7, an analyst said Thursday.

• Friday IT Funny: Vista officially dead

  <i>Computerworld Australia</i> has received reports that IT managers have begun spontaneously donning Munchkin hats and breaking out in song.

• Competitors bicker over Vista's security features

  The Vista Kernal Patch Protection feature, known as PatchGuard, is intended by Microsoft to prevent modifying system structures for purpose of intercepting system calls, said Bruce McCorkendale, Symantec's distinguished engineer.

• Windows 7 early adoption rate outpaces Vista's

  Windows 7 has broken the 4% market share barrier in less than three weeks, a mark that took Windows Vista five months to reach, a Web metrics company said today.

• Microsoft: In-place Windows 7 upgrades can take up to 20 hours

  Microsoft said Friday that some 'in-place' upgrades from Windows Vista to the new Windows 7 may take some users more than 20 hours to complete.

• Windows 7: the good, the bad, and the unknown

  For most people who are considering moving to Windows 7, October 22 is D-Day. On that date Microsoft's newest operating system lands on store shelves, both as a shrinkwrapped upgrade and preinstalled on new PCs. For some folks, though, D-Day has already arrived. Microsoft has issued the final RTM (release to manufacturing) version of Windows 7 to large companies that buy Windows via volume licenses, as well as to IT pros who belong to its Technet service. The Windows Vista era is officially drawing to a close--although you could argue that it never really quite started--and the Windows 7 one is under way.

• Dear Vista: it's time to part ways

  Vista, I have to tell you something, and I thought it would be easier to say in a letter. Microsoft's newest operating system is on its way; Windows 7 will be here on October 22. So, I know this is kind of awkward, Vista, but I'm going to have to ask you to get your things ready and start packing up.

• Forrester: Vista on 12% of corporate desktops, Mac on 3.6%

  The much-maligned Windows Vista operating system runs on almost one out of eight corporate desktops 28 months after its release, according to a Forrester Research report released today.

• Microsoft: Still no Vista SP2 for you

  Although Microsoft quietly delivered Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) to TechNet and MSDN subscribers last week, the company has still has not made the upgrade available to other users.

• Defence scraps Vista, Office, Exchange Server upgrades

  The Department of Defence has abandoned its deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and will forgo plans to deploy Windows Vista and Office 2007, citing the products lack “significant business advantage”.
  

• 'Vista Capable' case could cost Microsoft US$8.5B

  Microsoft would have to come up with as much as $8.5 billion to settle accounts with the customers affected by its 2006 "Vista Capable" marketing program, according to documents unsealed by a federal court.

• Slow Vista sales hit MS revenues as netbooks gain ground

  Sales of Windows desktop software dropped 8 percent last quarter compared to a year ago, while Microsoft's server division revenues were up 15 percent, illustrating the rejection of Windows Vista and the acceptance of Windows Server 2008, an analyst said Thursday morning.

• Microsoft beta lets old Windows apps run on Vista

  Microsoft has released the first public beta of a tool that solves one of the chief complaints businesses have with Windows Vista: that older Windows applications aren't compatible with the new OS.