Windows Vista Beta 2 Up Close and Personal

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Windows Vista Beta 2 Up Close and Personal
Vista Beta 2 is finally out. What's good and what's bad?
Wei-Meng Lee
takes it for a test drive and gives you the full rundown.
<http://www
.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/05/30/whats-good-an
d-bad-with-vista-beta-2.html>

From the Windows DevCenter Blogosphere

Are You Secure? 
Microsoft has a useful tool to help businesses evaluate
their current IT
infrastructure's level of security--it's called the
Microsoft Security
Assessment. Mitch Tulloch has details.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/200
6/05/are_you_secure.html>

Two Cheers for Vista's RSS Handling 
Vista embraces RSS in a big way--subscribing to feeds is
built into IE,
and there's a nice gadget for displaying feeds on the
desktop as well.
It's too bad, though, that the tools aren't more powerful.
Check out my
blog for more info.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/
windows/blog/2006/05/two_cheers_for_vistas_rss_hand.html>


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See you next week.
Preston Gralla, editor
WindowsDevCenter.com
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