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PCWorld:Microsoft Microsoft Reveals First Vista Gadget Bugs
Microsoft patched several Windows Vista gadgets this week, the first time it’s had to fix the small applications. Microsoft Corp. Tuesday patched several Windows Vista gadgets, the first time it’s had to fix the small applications, prompting one researcher to mark the date as the real “arrival of the next-generation of vulnerabilities.”

Forrester: Businesses Still Saying No to Vista
Software incompatibility, the need for hardware upgrades, and comfort with existing versions of Microsoft Windows are all causing businesses that once planned to roll out Windows Vista as fast as consumers to put off their deployments, according to Forrester Research Inc.

A bump on the road to Windows Vista
“IT managers are finding themselves pulling back their initial Windows Vista deployment plans,” Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray said in a report issued this week.

Buggy ATI Driver Leaves Vista Open to Attack
Microsoft is working with AMD to fix a bug in an ATI driver that ships preinstalled on millions of laptops and which leaves the Vista kernel open to arbitrary memory writes by malicious driver authors.

Olympic Committee Chooses XP Over Vista
“The popularity of Windows XP is still making things difficult for Vista. Now Vista has again suffered a major setback, with Lenovo (Olympic 2008′ official sponsor) installing XP on it’s machines to run the Olympic Games’ vital PC-related tasks. Vista will only be used in internet lounges set up for athletes to use during the games.”

Microsoft tightens Vista kernel defenses, updates PatchGuard
Microsoft seems to be doing something to harden its Windows Vista Patch Protection defenses ????? PatchGuard, which has issued an update through Windows Update as a high-priority download.

ComputerWorld:Microsoft Updates Vista in Bid to Boost Speed, Reliability
Microsoft Corp. last week released a pair of Windows Vista updates that had leaked onto the Internet at the end of July, but the company didn’t say when it will begin pushing them to users via Windows Update.

Vista Performance and Compatibility updates officially released
Although the tech world is still taking shots in the dark regarding the official beta release date of Service Pack 1 for the Windows Vista operating system, American software behemoth Microsoft Corp. has this week offered up two new updates that reports claim will be included in the final SP1 package.

ComputerWorld NZ:Tech Ed: The top ten reasons why you should deploy Vista
It was easy to see why Microsoft picked this as one of the kick-off sessions at Tech Ed ‘07. Based on a show of hands, I counted less than ten people (out of an audience of around 600) who indicated they had been involved in a serious Vista deployment, that is something more than installing the OS on a home machine.

Leaked Vista SP1 installed and analyzed
If you are one of the lucky few that have managed to get your hands on Vista SP1 then most likely you are enjoying a much improved Vista experience. If you do not have access to a legitimate copy of Vista SP1 (meaning the one Microsoft shipped to testers) then you are on your own to find it.

Vista SP1 analysed in-depth
It’s no secret that there’s a leaked beta of Vista SP1 floating around, but no-one yet has really taken the time to analyse it in detail to find out what it really does.