New Windows Vista Homepage

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Thanks to Long for the heads up

The Microsoft Windows Vista homepage has been updated with a slick new interface and more basic information about the next instalment of the OS. An RSS feed has also been added in a prominent location, useful for those of you who keep track of Vista developments. Although currently this feed is not offering anything much more than marketing hype.

It has been reported that the new look Vista site has some issues with some IE alternative browsers (namely Opera).

View: Windows Vista Homepage | Windows Vista RSS Feed

Windows Vista Starter Edition

Only sold in emerging markets
Very feature limited
Only 3 simultaneous applications running

Windows Vista Home Basic Edition

Equivalent to XP Home
Includes firewall, parental controls, Security Center, Movie Maker, Photo Library and more
For first time buyer / budget conscious

Windows Vista Home Premium Edition

Everything from Vista Home Basic
Adds DVD video authoring, HDTV support, DVD ripping support
Similar to current XP Media Center edition but with added features

Windows Vista Professional Edition

Aimed at the business consumer
Can join domain, has IIS web server
Akin to XP Pro

Windows Vista Small Business Edition

Designed for small businesses without IT staff
Backup and Shadow Copy support, Castle and server-join networking, and PC fax and scanning utility
Pre-paid access to the Windows Live! Small Business or Microsoft Office Live! subscription services

Windows Vista Enterprise Edition

Optimized for the enterprise
Ships with Virtual PC & the multi-language user interface (MUI)
Aimed at business decision makers, IT managers and decision makers, and information workers/general business users.

Windows Vista Ultimate Edition

"The best operating system ever offered for a personal PC"
Superset of both Vista Home Premium and Vista Pro Edition
Podcasting application, Game Performance Tweaker, possible free music/movie downloads

#1 SeBsZ on 15 Sep 2005 - 15:53

Yeah I was just reading the content on the site. Wonderful site design, I'm seeing more of that lately at Microsoft (Microsoft Max site, etc.)

If anyone wants me to take screenshots of particular areas of Windows Vista, please visit THIS

Enjoy

#2 lylesback2 on 15 Sep 2005 - 15:53

i LOVE this design, it's very easy on the eyes, very well done. i feel like copying it now lol

(1 reply) #3 lbmouse on 15 Sep 2005 - 15:58

After reading this report, I'm surprised that this is not the new homepage. Wow, thee rights might make a left but two wrongs definitely don't make a right.

#3.1 haisdeaks on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:11

im not really sure what aol really has to do with this....
lots of new info about vista on this new site though

#4 chris100 on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:01

Wow Great site

(2 replies) #5 SeBsZ on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:06

The new website as seen in Opera:

nice

#5.1 nihilistphx on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:07

Yes I agree, looking just as purty on my computer with Opera...

#5.2 PCyr on 15 Sep 2005 - 22:06

Works for me w/ FF

#6 Coffeee on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:06

Loving the css errors

#7 SeBsZ on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:09

Lol, there is an error in the text on the "Reliability" page:

QUOTE

Windows Vista supports full-volume encryption to prevent disk access to files by other operating systems. It also stores encryption keys in a Trusted Platform Model (TPM) v1.2 chip. The entire system partition is encrypted-both the hibernation file and the user data. It also stores encryption keys in a Trusted Platform Model (TPM) v1.2 chip, if one is available on the PC.

Anyone notice the repetition?

EDIT:

OOh just noticed a typo: "Data Syncronization" should be "Data Synchronization"

(1 reply) #8 digitalsoft on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:14

very nice design

#8.1 amrinders87 on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:20

Yeah. It looks very nice compared to Microsoft's homepage.

#9 Shardie on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:21

nice design BUT the images are way too low res.

#10 Mohsin Naqi on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:35

hmm this is not a good way to stop ppl from using opera

#11 jim87654 on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:48

I have noticed quite a few typos

#12 mad_onion on 15 Sep 2005 - 16:52

well its a huge improvement over the old one not that that is hard.... more pics and larger res would be nice

(3 replies) #13 Echelon Left on 15 Sep 2005 - 17:03

If you open the Vista homepage in Firefox, the "Search microsoft.com" box is messed up and the banner/bar it's supposed to reside on is half-missing. Also, the RSS feed doesn't work with Firefox: It just brings up a XML page with the header: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it."
Way to screw up, MS.

#13.1 Emon on 15 Sep 2005 - 17:12

also check out the actualy source of that page .. its freakin' ugly

#13.2 rbet on 15 Sep 2005 - 17:36

They obviously screw with Opera and FF on purpose. Stupid ****s.

#13.3 rm20010 on 15 Sep 2005 - 21:12

FF users should be grateful that it renders half decently in their browser. It's disasterous under Opera.

(1 reply) #14 rickm550 on 15 Sep 2005 - 17:25

i like that page.

btw, what is that extension on the end of the URL - .mspx?

#14.1 Jeremy1 on 15 Sep 2005 - 21:48

It's a page that is interpreted with a custom Microsoft interpreter, which was built on the .NET Platform. The x at the end means it uses XML.

#15 rbet on 15 Sep 2005 - 17:34

I don't know, I am already starting to really hate that glossy blue look.

#16 Snollygoster on 15 Sep 2005 - 18:12

In Safari it works just fine...

#17 Angel Blue01 on 15 Sep 2005 - 20:58

Nice.

#18 Ely on 15 Sep 2005 - 23:01

Beautiful homepage.

(1 reply) #19 Cubiz on 16 Sep 2005 - 00:42

Why the hell is this considered front page news? For gods sake, it's only a webpage.

#19.1 mugwhump on 16 Sep 2005 - 02:30

Why is it front page worthy every time a new iPod comes out? It's only a little music player.

#20 j0j081 on 16 Sep 2005 - 01:52

I haven't been able to get MSN video to work in Opera either even though it has WMP support. The error message told me to download WMP or Flash lol.

#21 GeeZuZz on 16 Sep 2005 - 04:47

Can that be defined as a webpage? It's obviously not using the HTML language (see post #5).

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