Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday showed off a new three-way foldable combination of phone, personal computer and music player tailored for an emerging wireless broadband technology the company is pushing as a global standard.
On Wednesday, November 8, 2006, Microsoft released its new operating system, Windows Vista, to hardware manufacturers, marking the end of the development phase and the beginning of the distribution phase. For more than a year, we have seen various builds, most of them private but some public, with ever-increasing build numbers
Longtime Windows users will appreciate the built-in file metatag and desktop search capabilities within Windows Vista. For instance, within the Start menu there’s no need to use All Programs; instead, simply type the name of the app you’re looking for, and a shortcut will appear as a search result.
The new Aero graphics engine within Windows Vista is dynamic, so file icons not only show you the contents of the file but also scale to the size of the page. And now you can view thumbnails of any open task across the bottom of the screen. These, too, are dynamic; you could, for example, monitor the progress of a sporting event just by passing your mouse over the open application.
All editions of Windows Vista will include Windows Sidebar, Windows Media Player 11, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, Windows Firewall, Windows Defender antispyware, Parental Controls, Internet Explorer 7, Windows Mail, Windows Calendar, Games Explorer, and several other features. For a full list of the programs in a certain edition, see the Microsoft site.
Overall, we find this Windows Vista RTM build very stable and feature rich, and we look forward to reviewing the final release on January 30, 2007
I know for a fact that not everything in the video is actually shipped in the RTM, but the video is certainly worth the watching. I get goose bumps every time I watch it :)
I was out of office for the entire week :)
Back to work today :(
You’ve heard of Monday blues - now raise that to the power of one million to conceptualize how boring it is on a Monday following a long vacation. The degree of “Monday blue” varies directly as the length of your vacation preceding that Monday. The constant of proportionality is the work-load that is sitting there waiting for you to come and take over.
