Microsoft Previews Windows Vista and Office 12

[mandy]

The next release of Windows ca;;ed Windows Vista and Office 12 are both expected in late 2006.

Vista will have a couple of user interface enhancements too. It will boast a "Windows Sidebar," which is similar to the "Widgets" feature found on Apple's Mac OS X

RSS has been integrated throughout Office 12 applications and Vista

The new [Office 12] interface does away with traditional toolbars and menus and instead has a set of graphical command tabs

http://www.datamonitor.com/~7ea662220e9241a1b66919bf88c1e004~/industries/news/article/?pid=606326E5-17C6-4FEA-9B6E-F120802A2E68&type=NewsWire

[regic]

Microsoft  Corp. is accelerating the development of the next version of its Windows client OS and plans to test a feature-complete version by early next year, a lead on the Windows Vista development team said Tuesday...

...Microsoft is still on track to make Windows Vista generally available in the second half of 2006,

full article: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/2...est_1.html