I was e-mailed this and thought everyone should have a go, if they dear….. Happy Birthday Windows Vista! Thanks to r0chelle for this news.

As we approach the one year anniversary of launching Windows Vista® we want to remember you as one of the many people who downloaded and tested one of the Windows Vista Beta or Release Candidates through TechNet or MSDN®.YOU were a significant contributor to the development of Windows Vista. Your participation was extremely valuable to Microsoft, and we would like to say, ?Thank You!?

To show our appreciation, we have several special offers exclusively available to you.

Offer 1: The ULTIMATE OFFER

Just go to your favorite retail or online store and purchase a standalone, full package Windows Vista Ultimate product, full or upgrade version, and we will match that with a second, complimentary Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade product key. We will honor a copy you purchased, and first activated, after December 1, 2007. Hurry! This offer expires on January 15, 2008.

To take advantage of this great offer, simply follow these steps:

Go to http://www.windowsvistaevalcomp.com.

Sign in using the same Windows Live ID that you used to download the beta or release candidate versions of Windows Vista. Follow the instructions to locate the Product ID on the computer running the qualifying copy Windows Vista Ultimate that you recently purchased.
Enter that Product ID into the online form.

We will then provide you with a Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade key, so you can install Windows Vista Ultimate onto a second machine. (The second machine must have Windows XP or a version of Windows Vista already installed in order to upgrade)

Please note that this key is NOT for resale, although you may give it as a gift to a friend or colleague. Limit one complimentary key per person. Windows Vista Ultimate Academic and Student versions are not included in this promotion.

Offer 2: We also have one hundred $250 gift certificates to give away!

To thank you for helping make Windows Vista the most reliable Windows® yet, taking a short online survey and you be entered to win a $250 Amazon gift certificate (US store, shipping worldwide) to spend however you wish.

Take the short survey here: http://www.windowsvistaevalcomp.comand we will include your name for a chance to win. The survey is anonymous but we need your name for the prize. Of course, we respect your privacy. All entries must be completed by January 15, 2008

Offer 3: Would you like a truly unique computer personally signed by Bill Gates?

We?d like to give you the opportunity to own a truly unique computer. This computer is the ASUS W5fe. It is very powerful, small, light weight and incorporates the Windows SideShow? technology. Each one is personally signed by Bill Gates. We have ten available, but you can only enter to win if you participated in the Windows Vista Beta or Release Candidates through TechNet or MSDN.

Simply come to http://www.windowsvistaevalcomp.com, tell us how you put Windows Vista to work along with your top tips and best practices to get going with Windows Vista today. We?ll select the top ten entries to be published. (Only one story per participant, please.)
All entries must be completed by January 15, 2008

And in closing, there is so much written about Windows Vista, how do you sort through and find the right information at the right time, and with the right technical depth? Visit Microsoft?s newest TechNet resource: Windows Vista Springboard?the onramp for IT Pros.

Thank again for participating in the Windows Vista Beta Program!

Thank you!

Celine Allee

Director, Windows Client

Source: Windows portal

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Microsoft has finally started talking publicly about the next release of its Internet Explorer Web browser, and expects to deliver the first beta for IE 8 in the first half of 2008.
The IE (Internet Explorer) development team is also pledging that while IE 8 will deliver advancements and enable Web developers, designers, and Internet Content Providers to develop across multiple platforms and versions and provide richer user experiences, it will not break the Web as happened with the current IE 7 due to the improvements it made to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
A Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment about the company’s future plans for IE 7, particularly with regard to patches and updates, saying there was “nothing new to share at this time.”
In a move the development team is citing as a milestone on its blog, it says that IE 8 in standards mode now correctly renders the “Acid2 Browser Test,” which determines how well a browser works with several different Web standards.
“Showing the Acid2 page correctly is a good indication of being standards compliant, but Acid2 itself isn’t a web standard or a web standards compliance test. The publisher of the test, the Web Standards Project, is an advocacy group, not a web standards defining body,” Dean Hachamovitch, the general manager for the Internet Explorer team, said in the blog post.
While acknowledging the many kinds of Web standards, ranging from true industry standards to de facto standards, open standards, and others, Hachamovitch said the key goal was interoperability, so developers did not have to write the same site multiple times for different browsers.
“With respect to standards and interoperability, our goal in developing Internet Explorer 8 is to support the right set of standards with excellent implementations and do so without breaking the existing web … We must deliver improved standards support and backwards compatibility so that IE8 continues to work with the billions of pages on the web today that already work in IE 6 and IE 7 and makes the development of the next billion pages, in an interoperable way, much easier,” he said.
Chris Swenson, director of software industry analysis at the NPD Group agrees, telling eWEEK that the IE 8 Acid2 test announcement is a big deal for Web developers as they will now have to spend less time tweaking their sites to work in multiple browsers.
While acknowledging that Acid2 “isn’t the be-all and end-all test of compliance to Web standards, in fact some of its tests aren’t even finalized yet,” Swenson said it was a good test suite to check browsers test for compliance to some major, modern standards.
Source: www.extremetech.com