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Barry Goffe
Director, Windows Vista última
Microsoft Corporation

Cuando lanzamos Windows Vista en enero de 2007, identificamos los últimos suplementos de Windows como serie única de agregaciones que estarían disponibles para los últimos clientes de Windows Vista. Hasta la fecha, hemos lanzado cuatro sistemas ™Em de Windows€ Holdâ del â de los suplementos€ “, 16 paquetes de la lengua para el interfaz utilizador de la multi-lengua de Windows, reserva dominante en línea segura, y herramienta de la preparación de la impulsión de Windows BitLocker. Deseamos dejamos a nuestros últimos clientes de Windows Vista saber que estamos trabajando activamente para entregar los suplementos restantes que identificamos en enero. Nuestra meta es proporcionar el el más de alta calidad, las ofrendas más seguras y más confiables, y consecuentemente estamos continuando nuestro trabajo en estas ofrendas. Nos disculpamos por durar tan para proporcionar una actualización del estado a los clientes.

Nos preponemos enviar Windows DreamScene y los 20 paquetes restantes de la lengua para el final del verano. No enviaremos los dos suplementos pasados showcased en enero (Windows DreamScene y los 20 paquetes restantes de la lengua) hasta que resuelven la barra de la alta calidad requerida por nuestro customersâ entusiástico€” y creemos que podemos alcanzar esa barra para el final de este verano.

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Esto es lo que Michael Dragone de Ars Technica fijado:

Ahora hemos estado probando el iPhone por algunos días, y mientras que sigue siendo demasiado temprano revelar los resultados completos de nuestra prueba, nos sentimos obligados para observar que el iPhone y Windows Vista no jueguen siempre bien juntos. Si usted está dirigiendo hacia fuera para tomar un iPhone y usted es un usuario de Windows Vista, esté preparado para luchar con su computadora.

Usted puede ser que desee hechar una ojeada los comentarios allí también:

vea: http://www.activewin.com/awin/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=40022

Sé que es justo porque somos la caja más fresca que usted picked ours to abuse. And, while I like Emerald and Ruby fine as names, if you want all the features, come on, you want ours. Does Ruby sound more ultimate than Ultimate? No. If Microsoft adopted a gem theme, we’d be Dawnstone.

WSUS and Ultimate Extras

Many Ultimate users will have never heard of WSUS, but a vocal minority will be interested in this blog entry. Currently, if your computer is administered by WSUS 2.5, you cannot install Ultimate Extras. So what’s going on?

First, for those not in the know, WSUS is Windows Server Update Services, a technology that allows IT administrators to deploy the latest Microsoft product updates to their users’ computers, or block updates they do not want users to install. If you are a home user, it is very unlikely WSUS is in your house (and you know if it is). However, if you are running Windows at work, then your company may have deployed WSUS.

If you want to see if your computer is administered by WSUS, it is easy. Open the Windows Update control panel and look at the line of text which begins “You receive updates:” If the text after that is “Managed by your system administrator” then WSUS is active, otherwise, not.

This all is very technical, and might sound pretty far afield from Windows Ultimate and Ultimate Extras, but it’s not. For instance, a number of small businesses are choosing Ultimate for its complete feature set

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While looking at our bandwidth usage spike after we posted the wallpaper, I was reminded of a conversation that Alex and I had about the Ultimate video we posted a few weeks ago. You saw the final version of the deployment (soapbox + download center), but there is a funny story behind how we decided to use those technologies that I can’t resist sharing.

The versions we posted, which are already much smaller than the original raw video, are still about 100 MB. Alex, since he was the one who put all the time into capturing the video’s content, was very eager to make it live. He thought the quickest way would be to use this site’s new download section. And of course he’s right. But that suggestion led to the following conversation.

Erik: There’s no way we should do that.
Alex: Why not?
Erik: We’ll run out of our bandwidth allotment.
Alex: Don’t we have infinite bandwidth?
Erik: Well, effectively. But not for free, we’ll start paying for it.
Alex: Really, when?
Erik: I don’t know. I haven’t seen our hosting contract.
Alex: How much are we talking? We have money for this sort of

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Have you ever asked yourself: What are the attributes of a great piece of content for Windows DreamScene? I get asked this question a lot, particularly from people who are trying to create their own. The answer is rather long, so why not blog about it :)?

Turns out we think about many aspects before we deem something DreamScene worthy. I usually break my answer in three sections: 1) attributes of the content; 2) attributes of the rendering and 3) attributes of the encoding. What follows is an explanation for each of these sections…

From a content perspective:

• Keep the camera angle static, so no zooming, panning etc or people will either puke or turn you off after a few seconds
• Try to bring interest in the top quarter and bottom quarter of the video so that you can get motion coming through the glass surfaces in Vista
• Keep the loop to about ~30 seconds in length
• Make sure the content is visually appealing, and the composition of the frame is appealing
• Beware of the areas of motion. Make sure that where there is motion, that the motion is not distracting. Make sure the type of motion doesn’t make folks dizzy or lean to one side etc
• Make

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