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Windows Vista - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/
Official product homepage. Contains features showcase, and information for various types of user. |
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Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx
Official site which provides an interactive upgrade advisor to check if a computer meets the minimum requirements to run Vista. |
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Windows Vista TechCenter - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/default.aspx
Official site providing technical resources and news for IT professionals. |
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Vista Developer Center - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/default.aspx
Official site about product development. Includes product information, news, tools, and code samples. |
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BadVista - http://badvista.fsf.org/
A campaign by the Free Software Foundation with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights. |
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Wikipedia: Windows Vista - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista
Includes facts about the product's development, new or improved features, visual styles, hardware requirements, editions and pricing, criticism, notes and references. |
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Windows Vista Team Blog - http://windowsvistablog.com/
Official news site from the Windows Vista Team, providing the very latest news about this new operating system. |
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Windows Vista Enterprise - http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa/benefits/vista.mspx
This article has information on the benefits of using Windows Vista Enterprise edition. |
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BBC News: Vista Gives a View of a New World - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6319845.stm
Internet law professor Michael Geist casts an eye over the fine print in Windows Vista and is concerned at what he finds. |
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A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection - http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
A document by Peter Gutmann focusing at the cost of the technical portions of Vista's content protection. |
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Windows Vista Content Protection - Twenty Questions (and Answers) - http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/01/20/windows-vista-content-protection-twenty-questions-and-answers.aspx
Nick White's commented text. |
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VistaDriver.Net - http://www.vistadriver.net
Helpful drivers for Windows Vista. |
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Vista Ultimate - http://www.vistaultimate.com/
Provides news, reviews, downloads, optimization tips and forum for the Ulimate edition of this new operating system. |
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APC Magazine: 10 Reasons Not to Get Vista - http://apcmag.com/5049/10_reasons_not_to_get_vista
Provides some reasons why upgrading to this new operating system might not be worth doing. |
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ActiveWin.com - http://www.activewin.com/winvista/
Information about Windows Vista, including the hardware requirements, software compatibility, how the Operating System was made and its inner workings. |
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Windows Vista resembles OS X - http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/03/09/vista.resembles.os.x/&startNumber=30
This article addresses the concern that Microsoft's Windows Vista closely resembles Apple's OS X. |
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Virtual Labs - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/traincert/virtuallab/vista.mspx
In these labs you'll learn to deploy operating system images using Windows Deployment Services, configure User Account Control for standard and administrative users via group policy, and more. |
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Windows revamp 'too advanced for most PCs' - http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2188681,00.html
This article contains information about the upgrade to Windows Vista, and some common hardware problems that occur. |
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CTV.ca: How Secure is Windows' New Vista? - http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061211/windows_vista_061211/20061211?hub=SciTech
An article questioning the system's security. |
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Longhorn In-Depth - http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1588159,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
Extreme Tech's review which examines the 3D user interface, desktop windows manager, and the new Internet Explorer. |