Neowin News Feed for: Reliability

Microsoft details Project Tardigrade, an Azure resiliency initiative

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:22:01 +0000

Microsoft has expanded upon Project Tardigrade, the initiative it announced at this year's Build conference, which allows Azure to become more resilient against spontaneous platform failures. Read more...

Microsoft defends the Surface line of products after Consumer Reports found them unreliable [UPDATE]

Dreyer Smit — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 15:26:01 +0000

When Consumer Reports concluded that the Surface line of products was not reliable enough to be recommended for daily use, Microsoft decided to defend its products in a recent blog post. Read more...

Apple beats all competitors on reliability, support again

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:52:52 +0000

For the second year running, Apple Inc.'s computers are the most reliable, and its support is the most dependable of all computer makers selling in the U.S., according to according to Rescuecom Corp.'s third annual... Read more...

Microsoft: Another Vista Reliability & Performance Update

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:05:01 +0000

Vista’s performance is one of those topics that won’t be exhausted until Windows Seven hits RTM. It all comes down to trade-offs. Ever since the features of Vista were finalized, Microsoft tried to tip the... Read more...

Vista SP1 will be stability and reliability, not performance

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:45:30 +0000

The problem is one of the major issues with Vista is performance... Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will Vista SP1 and how this won't bring any relief to those who find Vista a bit slow or sluggish? Not... Read more...

Compatibility, Reliability, and Stability of Vista Update

Steven Parker — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:50:46 +0000

About 2 months ago Microsoft released a couple of hotfixes that improved the stability and reliability of Windows Vista, these were not made available on Automatic Updates. That aside, Microsoft has released an update to... Read more...

Vista Performance and Reliability Pack Unofficial Release

Steven Parker — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:34:43 +0000

Thanks Nekrosoft for the news on this major update to Windows Vista that should for most of us improve the speed and reliability of Windows Vista significantly! Please note: These fixes break all current... Read more...

Virus Aside, Gates Says Reliability Is Greater

Sun, 31 Aug 2003 06:31:06 +0000

Microsoft the world's biggest software maker, is the biggest target for computer viruses like the SoBig.F worm that wreaked havoc two weeks ago. Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, talked last week about... Read more...

Windows Reliability Beta Program Sign-Up

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:44:21 +0000

Thanks Bink for informing me that he is in possession of a working Guest ID for the Windows Reliability Beta program. This is the same beta as we reported before only now the ID [AppTermReporting]... Read more...