Folders will be displayed very differently in Vista from the current XP model. The AERO graphical interface will give a much more realistic picture. The transparent “Glass” effect is made possible by the new AERO 3-D facility, which will require an advanced graphics card to work properly.
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Robert Scoble seems to have had a change of heart over RSS. From the Business Blog Summit in San Francisco he questions the use of the term “RSS” after seeming to agree with Dave Winer’s view last week. For the non-aficionado, Dave Winer, often credited with inventing much of the RSS code, believes the clunky […]
It’s being reported over at BetaNews that IE7 Beta 1 is crashing various applications on testers’ machines.
Instant Messaging (IM), Yahoo mail and MS Money are mentioned as programs finding IE7 hard to live with. “Trillian, a popular multi-network IM client, Gaim and IM2 all spit out error messages when loaded alongside IE7, and the only […]
Welcome to all who chance upon these shores. If you’ve come via the media release at the Blog Herald, you’ll know that this is a new blog devoted to the progress of the Windows Vista operating system from Microsoft and its associated browser, Internet Explorer, IE7, both now in beta. We’ll be here reporting on […]
Here’s an extract from Chris Wilson’s statement on IEblog concerning the shipping of IE7 Beta 1. Chris heads up the development team and here he’s concerned with Standards Compliance and CSS support in IE7.
“I’m very happy that we’ve shipped IE 7 beta 1. I wanted to make it clear that we know Beta 1 […]
Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s Über blogger, wearing a Window’s Vista cap. Hey, Robert, when are these going on sale?
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Amy Stephan, a senior product manager with the Windows client unit, recently spelled out some of the fundamentals of the new Vista operating system, including systems management and deployment features. These include:
Launch applications 15 percent faster than Windows XP does.
Boot PCs 50 percent faster than they boot currently and will allow PCs to resume from […]
What will Windows Vista contain that represents an advance on XP? The full feature-set is constantly under review and development, and much is still locked up in the dark interstices of the Microsoft’s woodwork. But we do know quite a bit.
Perhaps the biggest change is that Vista’s code is not descended from the XP […]
When you use Windows Explorer in Vista to browse through a folder, you won’t see generic icons for applications that created various files. Instead, you’ll see an actual preview of the file or the first page of a multipage document as in the image above.
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Internet Explorer 7 is equipped with a new URL handling architecture known to the team as CURI. This provides more secure and consistent parsing of URIs to reduce the potential attack surface and reduce the threat of malicious URIs.
Malicious URIs were always near the top of Microsoft’s security strategy for IE7 because their secure […]
Acrylic, a new design tool deriving from Microsoft’s 2003 takeover of Hong Kong-based company, Creature House Ltd., is set to be released early. The product is aimed at designers in print and enters the arena long dominated by Adobe.
Forest Key, the Group Product Manager, said, “Acrylic relates to Windows Vista, and it is a technology […]
Microsoft developers have unveiled a new logo for Internet Explorer 7, and changed the way the browser is branded. IE7 will now be known as Windows Internet Explorer 7, emphasizing its integration with Windows Vista. IE7 will, though, be released as a standalone upgrade for Windows XP SP2 users, but with a slightly different look.
The […]
The Mac Observer is creating a frisson over at Microsoft by suggesting that Windows Vista will only work properly on high-end machines. So what’s the truth?
The article claims : “When Windows Vista ships at the end of 2006, it may not run on the cut-rate PCs sold by Dell, Gateway and other companies. Gene […]
VNUNet.com reports that users of Windows Vista Beta 1 unknowingly activate a feature of the operating system that could put their security at risk.
The hazard affects a peer to peer networking technology called peer name resolution protocol (PNRP) that is scheduled to ship as part of Windows Vista. The technology is included in Windows Vista […]
The following has been posted by Stephen Toulouse on Microsoft Security Response Center Blog :
“There’s been some commentary the past couple of days regarding a potential Windows Vista virus and we wanted to weigh in with some details. First of all, in examining the details of the reports, there is no Windows Vista virus described […]
According to prostoalex : “AJAX interfaces are getting more complex and versatile, relieving the user of the necessity to reload the page, and thus are becoming more like your average desktop apps. The catch? AJAX apps work in any browser out there, making the OS layer a bit irrelevant. Will the trend threaten Microsoft desktop […]
IE7 will boast a Phishing Filter to fight back against the now-common threat of phishing. Rob Franco of the Microsoft team, says that “The Phishing Filter will be able to take you away from a reported phishing site but, even if a site hasn’t been reported yet, Internet Explorer will warn you about sites that […]
Download Squad is questioning if Windows Vista is really beta-quality software yet. Based on tests carried out over at File Sharing Blog, which we reported yesterday, DLS comments, “While it’s unreasonable to expect a beta ~ and especially a beta of a Microsoft OS ~ to perform especially well, these results seem staggeringly bad.”
FSB’s Julian […]
You may like to check out the tests carried out on Windows Vista over at File Sharing blog.
Thanks to them for the steer
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What should we call RSS feeds when the technology becomes mainstream with the public release of IE7?
As we’ve seen in an earlier post, Jane Kim, Microsoft’s program manager for Internet Explorer, is asking for suggestions. She is currently using “Web Feeds”, which is at least an advance on RSS, XML etc.
Windows Vista blog makes this […]
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