Microsoft has in Japan, combined Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live OneCare in one eye-popping hot pink box.

As a special promotion for the Japanese market, an upgrade version of Windows Vista Home Premium is bundled with a year’s subscription of Windows Live OneCare and a copy of a Vista tips and tricks book. The pink flowers are called Sakura (cherry blossoms) and this is being released for the Sakura or ‘Cherry Blossom’ season, which is a BIG event in Japan.

Microsoft seem to be smart in making money. Why they release this pinky Sakura version but never release Chinese New Year version?

Microsoft has dropped two strong hints in the past two days that the next version of its Windows operating system, Windows 7, will arrive in 2009.

Microsoft intends to cut its losses with Windows Vista, which has been poorly accepted by customers, especially large companies or corporations.
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I received complaints about problem on install the Windows Vista Service Pack 1. They getting this message:

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is not available for installation from Windows Update and is not offered by Automatic Updates.

It could be due to some causes that causing Windows Update fail to install the SP1. Here is some of the causes:

• You are already running Windows Vista SP1.
• Windows Vista SP1 has not been released for the language of the language pack that you have installed.
• Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool is used to block the delivery of Windows Vista SP1 from Automatic Updates or from Windows Update.
• A hardware device driver or device software was problematic when you updated to Windows Vista SP1.
• You have installed a pre-release version of Windows Vista SP1.

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Does anyone still remember Windows Windows Millennium Edition (Me)? It was released on September 2000.

Windows Me did not give me a good impression. I have installed a few systems for customers who decided to upgrade their system from Windows 98 SE to Windows Me. It surprises me that it crash after 2 days it was installed. After awhile the system crash again with BSOD. Finally, the customers give up and decided to downgrade back to Windows 98 SE. From then on, those systems were working perfectly fine.
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Finally, Windows Vista SP1 is out. I will download and test it out.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from our customers. In addition to previously released updates, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards. SP1 also will continue to make it easier for IT administrators to deploy and manage Windows Vista.
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