Microsoft Corp. today announced the product lineup of its upcoming Windows Vista™ operating system. Scheduled for release later this year, the Microsoft^® Windows Vista product lineup will bring clarity to customers’ digital world by helping them easily accomplish everyday tasks, instantly find what they want, enjoy the latest in entertainment, improve the safety of their personal information, stay connected at home or on the go, and help ensure PCs are up-to-date, more secure and running smoothly.

The Windows Vista product lineup consists of six versions, two for businesses, three for consumers, and one for emerging markets: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Starter. The number of offerings is the same as the number of offerings currently available for Windows^® XP. More important, the lineup is designed to deliver clear value to a broad range of customers, each product tailored to meet specific needs of various segments of customers — home PC users, small and medium-sized businesses and the largest enterprises — and is aimed at bringing 64-bit, Media Center and Tablet PC functionality into the mainstream. read more...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/feb06/02-26WinVistaProductsPR.mspx 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

Windows Communication Foundation Official portal launched.

http://www.windowscommunication.net

What is WCF?

Windows Communication Foundation (previously codenamed "Indigo") is Microsoft's unified framework for building distributed applications.

With WCF, you can build secure, reliable, transacted Web services applications that interoperate with apps built on other platforms and integrate with the applications you're building on today's .NET technologies. And WCF is designed to be the next logical version of today's .NET distributed technologies, so if you’re using ASMX, COM+, MSMQ, .NET Remoting, or WSE, you'll love WCF.

WCF is part of WinFX, Microsoft's next-generation Windows framework. WinFX is an extension of the .NET Framework 2.0, and will be available as part of the Windows Vista operating system, as well as for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.