Vista Start Menu 2.1 PRO
Vista Start Menu has been in development as an attractive and efficient alternative to the Start Menu in Windows XP and Windows Vista for one year.
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28.1.2007 Vista Start Menu
Vista Start Menu is the convenient alternative to the plain Start menu you find in Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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11.9.2008 Windows 7 Start Menu
Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, is set to bring to the table an overhauled graphical user interface.
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26.2.2008 From Windows 95 to Windows Vista SP1 RC1 - the Evolution of the Start Menu Button
From Windows 95 to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 1 one item of the Windows operating system is a virtual landmark in the platform's graphical user interface landscape: the Start menu button.
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6.1.2008 Tweak-XP Pro v4.0.8 Download
The original tuning and optimization software for Windows XP. Tweak hundreds of hidden features of Windows XP, optimize your machine and customize it to your needs.
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13.12.2006 Download Steganos Internet An 8.0.1onym Pro 2006
Map of the world showing your camouflage location. Live! You can track how your proxy server changes.
- Direct access out of the Internet Explorer. Easy to use thanks to the plug in.
- Password-protected list of favorites. Your favorite Web sites remain private.
- You can select the browser: Anonymous Web surfing works with all browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla...
- NEW: Now with Steganos Update Wizard: stay automatically up-to-date!
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19.11.2005 Remove or Restore New Briefcase At Right Click Menu of Windows 7 and Vista
Briefcase is an ancient feature in Windows operating system, existed since Windows 95. Briefcase works as a special folder that supports two-way file synchronization with another folder on local disk or external USB/FireWire drive and network drive.
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13.6.2009 Vista Smoker Pro 1.1
Vista Smoker Pro allows you to change various settings in the Windows Registry.
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26.2.2007 DTweak Pro v2.3.1 for Windows Vista
Thanks to odeeee for this download. DTweak is a complex tweaker for Windows Vista, and with this release it is more than a tweaker.
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22.5.2007 Your Uninstaller! VISTA Pro 2006 v5.0.0.313
Your Uninstaller! uninstaller software is the industry's leading uninstaller software. It's the world's 1st smart Drag&Uninstall uninstaller software under the Windows platform, it's "Windows XP Optimized" and also works on other Windows versions including Windows Vista/XP/2000/ME/98/95/2003. Thanks to odeeee and marct for this download.
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30.6.2007 Start++ 0.3.2 for Windows Vista
Users of WDS on XP may recall the Deskbar Shortcuts functionality that allows you to create little aliases between words or characters with commands and searches.
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24.2.2007 Microsoft: Fast start for Vista in businesses
Microsoft is predicting that Windows Vista will be adopted by companies at twice the speed as its predecessor, Windows XP.
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1.10.2006 Update on the Microsoft Windows Vista Start-up Sound
Windows Vista Start-up sound was designed to move beyond the boundaries of a basic audio alert, reflecting the operational status of the system. As an embedded sound, it has a core concept of a trademark segment of media, initializing, personalizing and reflecting the Windows Vista brand and Experience.
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24.9.2006 CDBurnerXP Pro 4.0.013.220
CDBurnerXP Pro is a free CD/DVD burning solution. With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.
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23.9.2007 CDBurnerXP Pro 4.0.024.439
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free.
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12.3.2008 Internet Explorer 7 Pro v0.9.10
IE7pro is an add-on for IE 7 which adds lots of features and extras, that make your IE easier, more useful, secure and customizable.
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11.2.2007 Apple Launches 8 Core Mac Pro
Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The worlds first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised.
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5.4.2007 Hackman Suite Pro v9.01
Thanks to odeeee for this download. Hackman Suite is a multi-module all purpose debugging tool. It includes a hex editor, a disassembler, a template editor, a hex calculator and other everyday useful tools to assist programmers and code testers with the most common tasks.
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14.6.2007 8-Core Mac Pro and new displays slated for January
Sources indicated to MacScoop that Apple is readying the launch of renewed Mac Pro and Cinema Display line-ups in January.
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31.12.2006 Start Windows
Something old is new again in Microsoft marketing: Start.
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17.2.2009 ATI Radeon X1650 Pro vs. Nvidia GeForce 7600GS
As much as we love testing and talking about the latest innovations in PC graphics, it's only a fraction of the gamers market that can truly enjoy these high-end products as soon as they come out of the oven because of its high prices.
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31.10.2006 Pirates Offered Windows XP Pro Retail at $100 Discount
Users running illegal copies of Windows XP are being offered discounted purchase prices.
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15.5.2006 Zonealarm Pro Firewall 2010 with Free License Key Giveaway
Lately we have seen many big software companies having good promotion offer and its best way to grab products for free when we cant afford to buy.
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10.10.2009 Is Microsoft Going to Start a Linux War?
With software, the idea is to create some sort of code that is jammed into Linux and whose sole purpose is to let some proprietary code run under Linux without actually "touching" Linux in any way that would subject the proprietary code to the GPL.
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8.11.2006 Should Microsoft start paying for vulnerabilities?
Hackers are starting to agitate for Microsoft to start paying for information on security flaws found in its software products.
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16.3.2007 A Quick Start with ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a server side technology from Microsoft that allows you to create dynamic websites and web applications that run mainly on Windows web servers.
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29.12.2007 AT&T to start sending copyright warnings
AT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.
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28.3.2009 Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine nagware notifications
Microsoft is stepping up its war on software pirates by rolling out new Windows Genuine notification software for what it is calling its most pirated version of Windows: Windows XP Professional.
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26.8.2008 Security Tab Fixer for Windows XP - Activate Security Tab Under File, Folder Property Menu
Unlike Windows Vista & Windows 7, Window XP do not show Security tab under file or folder properties dialogue box.
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28.6.2009 Xbox 360 Off to Slow Start in Japan
Microsoft may have to try a little harder in marketing the Xbox 360 to Japanese consumers if initial reports coming out of the country Saturday are correct. According to several press outlets, reaction to the new console from Japanese customers appeared to be somewhat apathetic.
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11.12.2005Death to the Start Menu Part I
Viral Tarpara: So I have been playing around with Vista SP1 RC and so far it has been a much more enjoyable experience from a usability perspective.
The number UAC prompts are down, network performance regarding file sharing is now what it should have been at release time and stability is much
better. I always thought the UI in Vista was better than its predecessor though it did take a few weeks getting used to especially with the initially
annoying Network and Sharing Center. Since switching to my Mac for personal use a few years ago prior to joining Microsoft, Ive had to go through the
pain of using the Start Menu again *learned a lot about usability in the process*.
Start Menu, pain? Surely you jest, you might
be thinking. Actually, it is my opinion that the Start Menu is one of the most outmoded concepts that makes Windows, well umWindows...
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27.12.2007Microsoft feedback survey: Windows 7 start menu (concept). Here, let me show you it.
Long Zheng: Ah, product feedback surveys, what will we ever do without you? You share your most intimate secrets and future product ideas with
complete strangers all in the name of marketing research. Thankfully Microsoft surveys are no exception.
Windows 7 Start menu
searchAn anonymous tipster pointed out to me in a recent (private) Windows feedback survey sent out by Microsoft, asked how often users use the Start
menu search functionality, was a screenshot highlighting the aforementioned feature but not of Windows Vista and certainly not anything weve ever seen
before.
The most logical explanation would be of course, this is a mockup of Windows 7...
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26.02.2008Vista Desktop Search Annoyance
I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. In the XP days, I was a huge
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) fan, and like many WDS fans Vista search wasn't that exciting because of new features but rather, it gave visibility to
mainstream windows users that desktop search would change the way they computer.
When I used WDS I typically indexed my whole
C: and I carried that practice over to Vista's indexing service. That's when I started having issues. I wanted to to search all my content on
the machine, but when I would search for any files in the Start Menu, I would never get any results returned on a search unless they were
applications. For example, if I was to search for an excel file, it would not return in the Start Menu even though it was located in "Documents" --
it was very frustrating.
As it turns outs, the quick fix was to change the start menu settings so that the search bar is set to
"search entire index" instead of the default "search this user's files." The problem arises due to the user changing the "indexed locations"
to include all of the "C:" when the Start Menu is set to "search this user's files." This is a known bug and will be fixed in Vista SP1.
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05.09.2007Three Really Cool Vista Visual Tweaks
Andreas Verhoeven has released three really great Windows Vista tweaking
applications, designed to improve some of the visual decisions Microsoft made in Vista without much effort on your part. Download them and load
shortcuts to them into your startup folder (only one of them will do it for you) and you should really enjoy the results.
Glass
Toasts replaces the balloons that come out of your system tray with something a bit more ostentatious, a glass balloon that is too flashy for most
users. Then again, that is probably the point.
3D User Picture takes the picture that appears atop the Start Menu, makes it 3D,
and has it rotate. This means that your user picture, plus all the icons in the Start Menu that go up there when you select them, all get this cool
effect, and the effect only uses system resources when the Start Menu is open (so theres little cost to actual use of the computer.
Thumbnail Sizer lets you dramatically increase the size of the taskbar preview thumbnails, increasing seperately the height or the width (so if
you want wider, but not necessarily taller, thats easy). You can even slow down the fade in/out animation so you can enjoy that more.
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04.09.20073 Really Cool Tweaks for Windows Vista
Andreas Verhoeven has released three really great Windows Vista tweaking
applications, designed to improve some of the visual decisions Microsoft made in Vista without much effort on your part. Download them and load
shortcuts to them into your startup folder (only one of them will do it for you) and you should really enjoy the results.
Glass Toasts
replaces the balloons that come out of your system tray with something a bit more ostentatious, a glass balloon that is too flashy for most users.
Then again, that is probably the point.
3D User Picture takes the picture that appears atop the Start Menu, makes it 3D, and has it rotate.
This means that your user picture, plus all the icons in the Start Menu that go up there when you select them, all get this cool effect, and the
effect only uses system resources when the Start Menu is open (so there's little cost to actual use of the computer.
Thumbnail Sizer lets
you dramatically increase the size of the taskbar preview thumbnails, increasing seperately the height or the width (so if you want wider, but not
necessarily taller, that's easy). You can even slow down the fade in/out animation so you can enjoy that more.
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05.09.2007PowerPlaylist for Windows Vista Media Center released on CodePlex
As
announced last
night on the Media Center Sandbox blog, a new application for Windows Vista Media Center has been released. The application, named PowerPlaylist,
adds a custom strip to the Windows Vista Media Center start menu with up to five tiles. Each tile represents an audio, slideshow and/or visualization
combination which will start when the tile is selected. PowerPlaylist is configured via an XML data file, and the application includes an editor to
customize the information in the data file, including the title of the custom Start Menu strip and the name, image, audio source, slideshow folder and
visualization for each tile.
PowerPlaylist has been released on CodePlex, and you can download x86 and/or x64 MSI-based
installers if you want to try out the application. You can also download source code (licensed with the Microsoft Permissive License) if you want to
see how the application works behind the scenes, modify it to add features, fix bugs, etc.
Here are some links for more
information about PowerPlaylist:
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03.10.2007Review: Vista SP1 Release Candidate targets performance, reliability, security
The just-released Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC), like the previous beta, does more to improve the internal plumbing of Windows Vista than
it does to make any major changes to the interface. SP1 RC targets performance, reliability, and security, leaving the operating system's features
and functionality largely intact, with the exception of allowing users to substitute an alternate search tool for the one built into Vista, and
removing the Search link from the Start menu.
When the final version of SP1 (currently slated for next year) is released, the big
news will be the death of the so-called Kill Switch, which Microsoft prefers to call "reduced functionality mode." Whatever you call it, though, the
elimination of the switch will be good news. Currently, if you don't activate your retail copy of Windows Vista after 30 days, your desktop turns
black, and your icons and the Start menu vanish. You can't open your files (although you can copy them). You're able to use a Web browser for only
an hour before you get logged off.
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07.12.2007Outpost Security Suite Pro 2008 for Vista is now in Beta 1
Agnitum has released the first
beta version of the
Vista-compatible Outpost
Security Suite.
While
there's a lot to be done yet,
its time to start gathering
the first round of feedback
from users, so that we know
what we need to do to make OSS
2008 the best it can possibly
be. As always, we would really
appreciate your help, so if
youre a Vista user, follow the
link below to sign up for our
beta program. We look forward
to hearing what you think!
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23.07.2007Microsoft integrates Windows
Live into Vista
Microsoft-Watch reports that
newer Windows Vista builds,
5506 and up, include
references to Windows Live
software by default in various
locations throughout the OS.
It is unknown yet if the
concerned products are
installed with Vista or if it
only contains download links
to it.
The
Welcome Center in Vista is the
place where most references
are found. In build 5506, it
contains icons for Windows
Live Messenger, Windows Live
OneCare, Windows Live Toolbar
and Windows Live Desktop Mail.
Additionnally, the Start Menu
apparently contains a Windows
Live Messenger icon.
Though this is only
speculation, this may mean
that Microsoft is finally
removing Windows Messenger
from its Windows products,
using instead Windows Live
Messenger.
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17.08.2006Want to Test Vista? Better Act
Fast
Microsoft UK .NET platform
product manager Ian Moulster
wrote in a post to his
personal Web log that the
company will cut access to
Windows Vista Beta 2 on
Friday. He recommended that
users start their download and
activate Vista as soon as
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30.06.2006Neowin.net Toolbar by RM Version 3
This is a new version of
Neowin.net Toolbar by RM. Code
Version : 1.5.0.0 ~ Content
Version : 3.0.0.0
What's New :
- Deleted
" Check for PM's" Button
and Added "Forum PM's" menu
( with other links, like
Compose New PM ).
- Added
"Blogs"; "Articles";
"Gallery"; "Events" links
to the "Site Menu" menu in
the toolbar.
- Added
"Blogs" RSS to the "RSS
News" Menu.
- Added
"Scan for Threats"; "Your
Notes"; "Going To...";
"Your calendar"; "Your
alarm" functions to the
toolbar
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16.12.2006Command Line Tips for Non-Geeks
Sarah Perez: The command line doesn't have to be the sole domain of uber-geeks. With a little know-how, anyone can use the command line to perform
simple tasks on their computer. Below is a short list of command line tips that I've found useful in the past. These steps are easy to follow and you
don't have to be a computer nerd to use them. The commands I've listed work on Windows XP or Windows Vista. To use the command line, just go to
Start --> Run, and the type in "cmd" (without the quotes) and hit "Enter" on your keyboard. On Vista, you can just type "cmd" (again, without
the quotes) and "Enter" from the Search box on the Start Menu. Vista will know what you mean.
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15.12.2007Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
series Vista Beta Driver
This download is a
beta driver providing
Microsoft? Windows? Vista
32-bit and 64-bit Beta Build
5231 support for Sound Blaster
Audigy?, Audigy 2, and Audigy
4 series audio devices. It is
not fully tested and provides
limited
functionality.
nr
This download supports
the following audio devices
only:
* Creative Sound
Blaster? Audigy including
Platinum and Platinum eX
series
* Creative Sound
Blaster Audigy 2 including
Platinum, Platinum eX, and
Value series
* Creative
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
including Platinum and
Platinum Pro series
*
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
4 Pro and Sound Blaster Audigy
4
Take note of the
following:
* THIS IS AN
UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. There
is no technical support for
this driver.
* We
recommend that only
experienced users install this
driver. Do not install this
driver for critical
tasks.
* This download
supports Windows Vista 32-bit
and 64-bit Beta Build 5231 and
may not work on other Vista
builds.
Dow
nload:
Creative
Audigy Beta Driver for Windows
Vista..
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17.11.2005Office Labs: Search Commands
Forgot where to find the Compare button again? Microsoft's Office Labs have just released a preview of one of their research products, "Search
Commands," for Office 2007. Just press Ctrl-Y and you can search the ribbon as easily as you search your Windows Vista start menu. It also makes
use of the Guided Help feature of Vista, which allows you to learn it in a snap.
The Office add-in as of today supports Word, Excel and
PowerPoint and like what was shown in a concept a year ago allows users to search for commands in the Office applications directly from the Ribbon.
They can then quickly those commands by a numbered keyboard shortcut, giving quick access to commands or tools if you don't know where they are in
the Ribbon bar.
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29.04.2008Microsoft denies Sony's Vista hardware claims
Microsoft has denied Sony's
claim that the current release
of Vista supports neither
Intel's Turbo Memory
technology nor hybrid hard
drives.
The spat
between the companies arose
after Sony revealed to
ZDNet.co.uk that it would not
include Turbo Memory an
embedded flash memory module
formerly known by its code
name Robson in this summer's
Vaio notebooks because Vista
will not allow the benefits of
Turbo Memory to be utilised
until Service Pack 1 (SP1) of
the operating system is
released later this year.
Turbo Memory is an
optional component of Intel's
Centrino Pro/Duo platform
(previously known as Santa
Rosa), which makes use of
Vista features such as
ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive.
These features use
non-volatile "third-stage"
memory alongside a computer's
RAM and traditional hard drive
to boost performance and
start-up time. Most
manufacturers are ready to
release Centrino Pro notebooks
that include Turbo Memory,
although HP has turned it down
due to worries over cost
efficiency and the limitations
it places on users who want to
use external flash memory to
boost performance...
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07.06.2007Free 24-hour ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 download
Need a firewall freshener? Tuesday marks Check Point Software's 15th anniversary, and to celebrate, it's offering free copies of Check Point
ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 to all comers...
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18.11.2008Get Vista's Best Features in XP
Despite the fact that most of you
prefer XP to Vista and would rather
Microsoft extended XP's shelf-life, several new and improved features
available in Vista would be great to have in XP. This new functionality may not be enough to get you to switch to Vista, but that doesn't mean
you're out of luck. Let's take a look at a few ways you can incorporate Windows Vista's best features into your current XP PC for free.
We're going to focus on Vista's small and large features that are missing from XP, separated into three categories: applications,
functional, and aesthetic (e.g., transparency is aesthetic, the new start menu search is functional). This list is not exhaustive, but it does cover
the features readers feel make Vista worth it.
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14.05.2008European Politicians Launch Pro-Filesharing Campaign
Greens EFA, a coalition of two political parties that currently have 42 seats in the European parliament, have launched a pro-filesharing campaign
named “I Wouldn’t Steal”. Their goal is to counter the anti-piracy propaganda put forward by the entertainment industry, and
encourage people to download and share.
Read full story.....
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20.01.2008Dreamscene Preview Ultimate Extra available
Microsoft have just released
the 'Dreamscene Preview'
Ultimate Extra to users of the
Ultimate Edition of Windows
Vista. Dreamscene, which was
revealed at CES 2007, was
missing from the lineup of
extras at the launch of Vista,
as it needed further work.
This preview release allows
Ultimate Edition users to see
what the final technology will
be like once the final version
is released to the public.
Your desktop
background comes to life with
Windows DreamScene. When you
download this Ultimate Extra,
you can select a video for
your desktop background the
same way you select a
stationary picture. You can
choose one of the high-quality
looping videos that we've
included, or use a video from
a company that produces
content for DreamScene. You
can even use your own video as
a background.
To
download Dreamscene, click the
Windows Update or Ultimate
Extras shortcut on your start
menu, and click the 'Check
for new updates' link.
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14.02.2007Microsoft Strips Another Key
Feature from Vista
It seems another major feature
has been stripped from Windows
Vista. PC-to-PC sync, which
Microsoft co-president Jim
Allchin described as one of
his favorite Vista features
back in January. "You really
can leave all your documents
on a server and use cached
copies on the client," he
said. "It's just
synchronizing the files when
you make changes, as
needed."
It's
unclear whether PC-to-PC sync
will appear later, perhaps as
a Web download update to
Vista, or in a future Windows
release. (Microsoft does plan
to offer XPS functionality via
a Web download to Vista
users.) Typically, when
Microsoft drops features from
the Windows version currently
in development, those features
get lumped into the next
release. But Microsoft has
indicated that it will be
releasing more frequent
Windows updates going forward,
though it hasn't yet
specified how it will deliver
those updates.
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