Did we know that the Vista OS has the new mail client called “Windows Mail” ? I too did not notice it until today till I watched the video on channel 9.
If you are excited to know how does this look and what features it offer … hmmm … do not worry…channel9 has the answer … becuase Windows Mail is nothing but the renamed version of Outlook Express … hmmmm …. and thats not all.
Watch the video on Channel 9 to know more about Windows Mail.
Microsoft has unveiled several major new security features of the Longhorn Server, which is due in 2007. Here are the few:
And this server promises a lot to the customers who are in the edge of moving to Linux (or using it ) just for the sake of security holes from the Windows Operating system series. I am sure, if this clicks, most of the Linux users might migrate back to Windows due to its UI, application compatibility, ease of use and lot many to list that every one knows.
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Microsoft redesigned the Vista home page with lots of new information. It also provided the PDC05 screenshot gallery where in you can find cool screen shots of Vista, office 12, IE7, Digital Locker, Workflow and Expression (MAX is missing though).
Also, just happen to check Windows Vista UX Guidelines available for download from Vista Download center from Microsoft. This is a preliminary draft of the Microsoft Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines. These guidelines contain information on What’s New in Windows Vista, design principles, guidelines for controls, text, windows, and aesthetics. They will help designers and developers create high quality, consistent Windows Vista applications.
You can also find a white paper on How to build a great Windows Vista app from here.
Jeremy Mazner, Longhorn Technical Evangelist posted in his blog about how to build apps that will run like a dream on new Vista OS release.
Here is a nice white paper on Lighting Up on Windows Vista. According to Jeremy “this article adds some technical background and documenation. If you’re looking for a good quick answer to the question “is there anything new or interesting in Windows Vista?”, this is a pretty good place to start getting answers; and that answers most of the basic questions for Vista app developers“
As per C# tea Time, Visual studio 2005 RC is out and avaialble for MSDN subscribers. But when I browsed the available downloads from subscription section, only Team suite and Team Test Load Agents are available for download.
Anyway, may be am too early out there. Will check later to see if I can get the download
Related to PDC 2005, here is a forecast from Tom’s hardware guide on hot things that pops up in the conference
Due to the high demand from developers and to take the advantage of this popularity, Microsoft will be releasing the next build of Microsoft Vista on coming Tuesday, Sep 13th at PDC along with Visual studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005.
It is also going to launch a new MSN-Oriented developer site on the same day. MSN division might also publish the MSN search and messenger APIs on the same day to the developers to take a lead against its search rivals Google and Yahoo!
Paul Thurrott, the news editor for Windows IT Pro reported that the Windows Vista aka code name Longhorn will ship in no less than 7 different editions or SKUs.
Windows Vista will be available in two categories, Home and Business as that of XP Home and Professional. Vista Home category will have four product editions and three in Business category. A brief overview of all seven are listed below:
I thought to share the article that I read recently regarding the hardware requirements for Windows Vista with the Vista Blog community.
One of the Microsoft strategist told attendees of the TechEd 2005 conference on the Gold Coast, Australia that Vista aka code name Longhorn needs 2 GByte of DDR3 SDRAM and a graphic card with at least 256 MByte memory.
The new Lognhorn Display Driver Model (LDDM) will replace the existing GDI Display model with a mostly 3D vector-graphic system which is now in works. The system will require more work from the Graphic Processing Unit(GPU) and, as a result a faster bi-directional bus with the CPU. The GPU needs a plenty of room to operate in Vista and hence more memory you put on video card, the better.
As per the current hardware cost, thats bit real hard requirement for any home PC users as the total cost of 256 MB video card + 2 G SDRAM is ~350-500$. Due to this requirment am not sure how many users can afford and upgrade to Vista Operating System. But the strategist told that by the time Vista is released; the cost of video card and RAM will be cheaper than current.
But for sure one might have already observed that Vista along with Aero theme really looks crisp and more brighter than any of the older versions of Windows
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