Microsoft Reveals Windows Vista Versions

The BBC has a story on the next major release of Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista or just Vista, which is expected by the end of the year. Microsoft has broken it out into six versions – three targeted towards home (including one that can has PVR functionality), two for business/corporate useage, and one for “emerging markets”.

So it looks like there won’t be a dedicated Tablet PC version, rather you will use one (or more) of the other versions, probably one of the home and one of the corporate versions has the functionality, to install/run on a Tablet PC. It could be that the functionality is built-in all versions of Vista.

Laptop Drivers

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More Details about Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Emerge

This forum thread over at ThinkPads.com has produced a tremendous wealth of information about the upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad X300. Of note, in some of the documents, Lenovo is comparing the X300 to other popular ultraportables, including: – ASUS U3 – Dell XPS M1330 – Sony … Read more

ThinkPad X61 Tablet vs Current Competition

Earlier this week, over at The Student Tablet PC site, they posted part one of an interesting comparision, The X61t vs Everything Else. Part one covers the ThinkPad X61 Tablet versus the current generation “convertible” Tablets (convertible = can switch between a Tablet PC and … Read more