Windows Vista was promised to be more secure than its predecessor Windows XP and one year after its manufacturing release, Windows Vista only has 14 critical and important bulletins compared to 41 issued for Windows XP.

There is a lot of buzz on the 2 million sales generated by Apple on their Leopard release and there isn’t a lot of positive notes when Microsoft sold 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month, 40 million copies in the first 100 days, 60 million copies in July and now 88 million copies.

It is funny how a lot of reports says that Microsoft sales is declining, its incompatability issues have made people wary of upgrading or buying Windows Vista and so on and so forth. Now, with only a pathetic 2 million Leopard sales, media is saying that it is going to outsell Windows Vista with a staggering margin?

I informed you that the website of Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 is going to provide more information come October 8.

I just checked out the site and it provides information on session tracks, travel, location, expenses and other things you need to know to help you decide whether to join the SharePoint Conference 2008 or not. The SharePoint Conference 2006 was a blast, so I would expect this one is going to be better.

I got an email from the organizers of Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 and was informed that details for the breakout sessions would be released on October 8, 2007, that is going to be a day from now.

I hope they release it on that date especially when a lot of companies are evaluating whether to send their people to the conference or not. One most likely consideration is the difference between next year’s SharePoint Conference 2008 and SharePoint Conference 2006.

This latest update from Microsoft should fix a lot of USB problems and issues. While I could not find my favorite—“cannot remove drive…” even if I have do not have any opened or running files in it, I still welcome this update with open arms.

Go and get your update here.

I am not certain when was this posted but I certainly got interested browsing through a number of great sites which includes—Wikitravel, MajorGeeks & LikeBetter. I am not yet finished going through the list of Top 100 Undiscovered Sites.

You can browse them here.

How about you don’t need to type your user id and password everytime your Windows Vista box boots up? I think that is so cool especially when there is no risk of having someone else meddle with your computer.

Chris Pirillo has written the following steps for it:

For people who still insist in using Windows XP, these are the most important dates you need to know:

Windows XP SKUs, available until June 30, 2008.

Windows XP Starter Edition, available until June 30, 2010.

Windows XP for OEMs, available until January 31, 2009.

Windows XP support from Microsoft, until April, 2014.

The best news so far is the extension of Microsoft’s support of Windows XP until 2014.

Facts you ought to know when installing Windows Vista Service Pack beta 1.

1. Microsoft reports that installation is between 30 – 60 minutes.
2. The first 15 – 30 minutes is when the service pack prepares installation, during this time you can still use your computer freely.
3. The service pack would required to restart your machine for three times.
4. The installation of the Vista service pack requires a minimum of 7 GB of free hard disk. After installation portion of the 7 GB would be given back.
5. An annoying fact when installing Windows Vista Service Pack is its inability to tell you how many minutes is left before completing installation. The installation also doesn’t provide a progress status.

There are reports circulating that the next version of SharePoint dubbed as SharePoint 2009 and MOSS 2009 would have its early adoptor and CTP by middle of next year. It is also said that knowledge network is included and seamlessly integrated in SharePoint 2009.

These are still unconfirmed reports, though we would keep tabs on SharePoint 2009 and MOSS 2009 developments.