More information on Windows Vista.

It’s on! Go download WMP11 Beta now if you aint got it already with build 5381. The Beta is now public and you can find more info on microsoft.com or get it directly at this page. You can also sign up for a free two week trial of Urge. Thanks to Sean Alexander who gives us an Urge Tip: “A little known feature of Urge is 700kbps streaming music videos for a huge swath of the library – look for the little film icon to the left of songs to see if a video is available.”
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When you’ve got Windows Vista Build 5831, you also got the URGE! Urge is Microsoft’s new online music library ala iTunes. URGE will offer rich entertainment programming and innovative tools designed to guide musical discovery and connect fans to the artists and music they love. It will be offering more than 2 million songs from the major labels and thousands of independents and will also deliver a deep well of exclusive MTV Networks programming and original, hand-crafted content.
This new URGE Music Service, which is a collaboration between Microsoft, MTV, CMT and VH1 Music Channels is now working in Windows Media …read more

Cool stuff from Sean Alexander, he made some desktop wallpapers from the new posters for Windows Media Player 11. The MS marketing folks gave him the go-ahead for release and you can download em here in various sizes.
More Vista Wallpapers on retrosight.com.

Microsoft is getting round the massive hardware resources needed to fully implement the Windows Vista vision by reducing the features in the more basic of its seven projected “editions”.
According to Softpedia, the Starter and Home Basic editions won’t have the much-lauded Aero Glass graphics feature. They will present a “Classic” GUI similar to XP. “Other graphics features, such as tab previews or taskbar preview, will be excluded as well, because they would require too many resources.”
Moreover : “The new version of Microsoft Windows Web Server will only be included in the business type versions, which will also include unique …read more