Microsoft Windows Vista Preview: Features and Overview

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Wondering exactly which features separate Vista Home Premium from the Ultimate Edition of Vista? Or perhaps you want to know more about how media functionality has been integrated into the new OS? In this article, we go over all of Vista's key new features, as well as the new user interface. If you're looking for more info on Windows Vista, you'll definitely want to check this article out!

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Which Vista Edition is Right for You?

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Windows Vista is finally complete, already available to some businesses and MSDN subscribers?the rest of us can wait until January. So it might be time to think about which one you might want to snag.

Windows Vista Security Guide

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The Windows Vista Security Guide provides recommendations and tools to further harden Windows Vista. Use the GPOAccelerator tool in this Solution Accelerator to efficiently establish the Enterprise Client (EC) environment or the Specialized Security ? Limited Functionality (SSLF) environment.

UniveRSS, A 3D RSS Reader for Windows Vista

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UniveRSS is a 3D RSS feed reader for Windows Vista. It leverages the Windows Presentation Foundation and provides a stunning way of visualizing RSS feeds and their content.

Free XP Virtual Machine Image for IE6 Web Development

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Microsoft has recently made Virtual PC 2004 a free download; we?ve taken advantage of that by releasing a VPC virtual machine image containing a pre-activated Windows XP SP2, IE6 and the IE7 Readiness Toolkit to help facilitate your testing and development. The image is time bombed and will no longer function after April 1, 2007. We hope to continue to provide these images in the future as a service to web developers.

Office 2007 - First impressions of an average user

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OK, well perhaps I am not the average user, but I can say with my hand on my heart that I have never installed any of the Office 2007 Betas and, for what it's worth, not really followed the Office 2007 developement program with as much energy as others.

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DirectX 10: The Future of PC Gaming

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NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 is already here, Vista hits today, and the first DirectX 10 games aren't far away. We take an in-depth look at what DX10 adds to the gaming and graphical experience, from geometry shaders to resources to render targets. Can DX9 continue to cut it? We find out.

Windows Vista Upgrade Guide

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The consumer release of Microsoft's Windows Vista is just around the corner and we've got a complete guide to upgrading a computer to Vista or buying a new computer pre-loaded with Vista. You'll want to take a look at this before you do anything.

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Internet Explorer 7 Build 7.0.5730.11 Final *Updated Languages*

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Internet Explorer 7 has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability. End user improvements include a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing advances, improved search functionality, instant feeds (RSS), dynamic security protection, and more.

Microsoft Location Finder v3.0

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Microsoft Location Finder is a client-side application that turns a regular WiFi enabled laptop, Tablet or PC into a location determining device without the addition of any separate hardware. When launched by a user, Microsoft Location Finder uses WiFi access points - or reverse IP lookup when WiFi is not available - to center and display the person's location on an Windows Live Local, enabling the user to quickly and easily search in their present location.