TechRepublic has an interesting review of the Windows Vista Virtual Folders: “Virtual Folders is one component of Vista’s new information visualization, organization, and search features. It is built right into the operating system and is designed to relieve us of some types of data management nightmares. And, even at the beta stage, Virtual Folders is one awesome feature.”
I totally agree! And some even say that this is the most important feature of MS Vista. It helps us to better manage the information overload we all suffer from. The info overload-problem might be bigger online, but all of us seem to …read more

Oh my god, it looks like Microsoft is toying with a “Step User Interface”. This was demo’ed at TechFest last week. It’s like Dance Dance Revolution meets Windows Explorer. I hope this one never makes it to the store shelves! But that’s no concern to Microsoft, which spends billions of dollars a e year researching far-out technologies without worrying about whether the gizmos will ever make it to store shelves. Yahoo.com writes:
“This is just one off-the-shelf piece of hardware we can use,” A.J. Brush, the lead researcher on the project, said after demonstrating the technology. “Now we’re looking at broadening, …read more

ActiveWin has a very complete review of CTP build 5308. The article has 14(!) parts where Andre discusses the Installation, start-up, configuration, side-bar, photo gallery, dvd maker, defender, calender, mail, ie7 and security! Very nice work!