Windows Vista will come in seven different versions:

- Windows Vista Starter Edition
- Windows Vista Home Basic Edition
- Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
- Windows Vista Professional Edition
- Windows Vista Small Business Edition
- Windows Vista Enterprise Edition
- Windows Vista Ultimate Edition

One for each day of the week?!

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Microsoft released a test version of a new Windows file system.

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Microsoft Corp on Friday said the next version of its operating system used on most personal computers around the world will be called “Windows Vista.”

The world’s biggest software company stopped short of providing a launch date for the new version of Windows.

The first overhaul of the dominant computer operating system since Windows XP five years ago, is expected to reach consumers sometime next year.

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Microsoft website on Windows Vista.

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In some screenshots you can also see the new Internet Explorer browser with the tab functionality working…

Screenshots here.

Via Newstoday.

Not to be left out of any development trends, Microsoft is working to simplify the job of building so-called AJAX applications, or Web applications with sophisticated graphics.

Microsoft gets hip to AJAX.

Some more details have emerged on what we can expect in Longhorn Server, the first beta of which looks set to appear by August of this year, just around about the same time as beta 1 of the Longhorn client OS.

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Microsoft has released something that a lot of developers have been waiting for: the Longhorn SDK. Included are the first widely published tools for building Longhorn applications. Beta 1 of the desktop version of Longhorn is still due ‘this summer’, but the new OS won’t mean much if there’s no software to run on it.

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Microsoft Corp. has started public testing of a new graphics program designed to compete with Adobe Systems Inc.’s Photoshop and Illustrator products.

The Microsoft program, code-named Acrylic, can be used for digital painting, illustration and graphic design, the company said on its Web site yesterday. It’s based on technology that Microsoft acquired in 2003 when it bought Creature House Ltd., a Hong Kong-based maker of graphic-design software.

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