Windows Vista and the Future of Hardware

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It's clear that Windows Vista will have a big impact on PC hardware. We've already written about how to plan for building a Vista system. Now we take a look at the near-term horizon for hardware.

Revised IE7 Naming in Windows Vista

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I had mentioned a while back that we planned to call the version of IE7 in Windows Vista ?Internet Explorer 7+?. Well, the feedback we got on the blog was overwhelming ? many of you didn?t like it. So, as we?ve said on our website, we heard you. I?m pleased to announce that we?re switching the name back to ?Internet Explorer 7?. No plus. No dot x. Just ?Internet Explorer 7?.

Many new IE7 Builds Are On The Way

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Todd from IEBlog yesterday posted on his MSDN blog about the future of IE7 as well as some tidbits about when to expect release candidate and final builds.

DirectX Redist August 2006

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This download provides the DirectX end-user multi-languaged redistributable that developers can include with their product. The redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which developers may use the Redistributable. For full details please review the DirectX SDK EULA.txt and DirectX Redist.txt files located in the license directory.

August 2006 DirectX SDK

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This DirectX SDK release contains updates to tools, utilities, samples, documentation, and runtime debug files for x64 and x86 platforms. This release also include a public pre-release Direct3D 10.

Windows Live Messenger Review

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In my Windows Live Messenger Review, I examine some new Messenger features like PC-to-PC calling, PC-to-phone calls and text messaging, Bots, and Yahoo Messenger compatibility!

Clear Description of WEI Rating for Windows Vista

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Inside the upcoming Windows Vista, Microsoft has introduced a Windows System Performance Rating tool, which aims to assess the capability of a computer to run Vista?s new feature. Scoring from 1 to 5, however their meaning haven?t been revealed until a new guideline has given to PC market. In addition, the tool was revamped to be Windows Experience Index.

Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 7

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To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 soon after the final version of the browser is released (planned for fourth quarter 2006). Microsoft is making a non-expiring Blocker Toolkit available for those organizations that would like to block automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 7 to machines in environments where Automatic Updates is enabled.