Nokia SMS Widget for Windows Vista

Nokia released a widget for Windows Vista users from its beta lab. This tool allows you to view and send SMS text on your desktop by connecting your phone to the computer. Pretty nice tool for the text extremists who's got the biggest text package and uses it all the time. Enjoy!

Taken directly from Nokia Beta Labs Blog:

Here’s a small - but really nice - treat for Windows Vista users (about 15% of Beta Labs visitors). Nokia Text Messenger is a Windows Vista gadget, with which you can view your latest SMS messages, and send new ones, conveniently from your Windows Vista sidebar.

It should work on all Nokia devices compatible with PC Suite. Just make sure you have 6.85 or later installed.

Windows XP vs. Vista

I am sure people have been experience the "lag" from Windows Vista unless they had powerful machines and long hoped for the first service pack to be released. Well, some bad news is that a software development company in Florida, Devil Mountain Software, stated that Windows XP (beta Service Pack 3) has 2x the performance of Vista (Service Pack 1). Vista's first ever service pack is supposed to be released early next year and is supposedly said to boost the operating system's performance.

The competition resulted in Vista taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the XP's 35 seconds. Vista's performance increased less than 2% compared to the performance without SP1 while XP's SP3 improvement resulted in a 10% gain. The tests, run on a Dell XPS M1710 test bed with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB of RAM, put Microsoft Office 2007 through a set of productivity tasks, including creating a compound document and supporting workbooks and presentation materials.

This can definitely be an issue for Microsoft as it aspires to increase it's sales of Vista, especially to businesses. It's no wonder my notebook has to "think" to open a PowerPoint.