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Microsoft will Ship All Vista Bits with Each Product Edition
Although Microsoft will market several Vista product editions, or SKUs, the company will distribute one version of the product's DVD providing the code for all product editions on each disc. That way, users will be able to unlock functionality from higher-end Vista editions at a later date, after paying for the upgrade privilege. The change in plans, which was first reported by "CRN," means that Microsoft will need to maintain only a single Vista master disk image rather than the multiple images that would otherwise be required. Each time a Vista edition is upgraded, Microsoft will provide an updated product key, as each product edition requires different product key sequences. At that point, your old product key will be invalidated so it can't be used on a different system. Say what you will, but this new scheme makes a lot of sense, given the sheer number of email messages I get about upgrading one edition of XP to another. And with Vista, we'll see even more product editions, each with its own specific set of features.
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Microsoft will Ship All Vista Bits with Each Product Edition
Although Microsoft will market several Vista product editions, or SKUs, the company will distribute one version of the product's DVD providing the code for all product editions on each disc. That way, users will be able to unlock functionality from higher-end Vista editions at a later date, after paying for the upgrade privilege. The change in plans, which was first reported by "CRN," means that Microsoft will need to maintain only a single Vista master disk image rather than the multiple images that would otherwise be required. Each time a Vista edition is upgraded, Microsoft will provide an updated product key, as each product edition requires different product key sequences. At that point, your old product key will be invalidated so it can't be used on a different system. Say what you will, but this new scheme makes a lot of sense, given the sheer number of email messages I get about upgrading one edition of XP to another. And with Vista, we'll see even more product editions, each with its own specific set of features.
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Isto sim é excelente, só nos diz que a MS está a evoluir.
Talvez, como muitos de vós, ao ler as primeiras linhas pensei "Ah, isto atão, eles tão praticamente a oferecer o Vista Ultimate de mão beijada", mas aquela história de invalidar a serial anterior é manhosa :P
Mas pergunto-me: Isso apenas serve para não deixar activar o produto, mas, se houver, por acaso, um "crack" anti activação, tal como acontece no XP ou no Server2003? Para bem do sector deles, espero que tenham protegido aquilo bem de "crackisses" (:o), que não tenha feito uma protecção tipo Windows Genuine Advantage :P

Aghora gostava era de saber preços, meus amigos! Preços! Ah sim! Pilim...
 
Hmmm tou impaciente pra ter um S.O. 64Bits em q se possa jogar á fartazana e instalar tudo e mais alguma coisa, para se poder tirar proveito dos cpus @ 64bits, penso q com o Vista os "64bits applications" vão começar a sair em massa, esperemos... :)
 
Bugs à Vista
Artigo de opinião: Quando a Microsoft em 2003 anunciou as funcionalidades que o seu novo Sistema Operativo denominado "longhorn" (e mais recentemente baptizado como "Vista") iria possuir, o mundo recebeu a noticia como uma revolução tecnológica e provavelmente assim seria caso a Microsoft não se visse a braços com problemas temporais.
Este atraso no lançamento do SO fez com que a maioria das suas novidades deixassem de o ser na medida em que outros SO's como o Mac OS X "Tiger" já as implementam e estão em produção.

Perante este cenário, a única novidade que o "Vista" pode vir a apresentar será ao nível da segurança do mesmo, área que a própria Microsoft considerou prioritária.
Existem notícias animadoras de que o SO estava a ser todo reescrito com a segurança em mente ao ponto de finalmente conseguirem colocar o GUI a correr em user mode deixando o kernel de possuir esse subsistema, tal como os unixs fazem á anos. Alguém em Redmond percebeu que por vezes tem de se pôr a segurança e a estabilidade á frente da performance. Mas apesar destas noticias, hoje tomei conhecimento que o Vista Beta 1 está vulnerável ao bug encontrado recentemente no motor de rendering WMF levando a que a Microsoft lançasse o primeiro patch para o SO.
Isto deixa-me céptico, não estranho que um software em fase Beta possua bugs, o que eu estranho é que um software que se diz reescrito a pensar na segurança apresente código do windows 3.0 sem modificações.
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Achei um interessante ponto de Vista (:D), e uma óptima observação.
 
Sim, mas a vulnerabilidade é no formato de imagem, não no SO em si.

E sim, tem de ter código legacy, senão como é que mantém compatibilidade com formatos de imagem antigos ?

É que nem sequer é exclusivo da MS, até a Apple sofre de problemas de segurança no seu player Quicktime e logo com imagens TIFF, como foi revelado esta semana...:

Apple QuickTime Player StripOffsets Improper Memory Access - Apple QuickTime has a vulnerability in parsing the specially crafted TIFF image files. This is due to application failure to sanitize the parameter StripOffsets value while parsing TIFF image files. A remote attacker could construct a web page with specially crafted tiff file and entice a victim to view it, when the user opens the TIFF image with Internet Explorer or Apple QuickTime Player, it'll cause memory access violation, and leading to potential Arbitrary Command Execution. Apple Computers has released a security update for this vulnerability, which is available for downloading from Apples's web site under security update.
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Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session


Robert Fripp was on the Microsoft campus a few weeks back. He's the famous guitarist and composer, known for his founding role in the band King Crimson. Charles Torre (a big King Crimson fan) was invited over by Steve Ball to film the session.

So, what was he doing on campus? Recording the various sounds we'll all hear in Windows Vista.

This is a different kind of Channel 9 video. We needed to be quiet during the recording session so you can just follow along. It's a little audio preview of what Windows Vista will sound like.

Sorry it's a little dark. It was a dark room! Hope you enjoy it.
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http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=151853
 
WinFX SDK (sucessor do Win32, dos tempos do Windows 3.x), Day 1:

Microsoft on Wednesday gave developers access to a key piece of Windows Vista, months ahead of the operating system's release.


The company posted near-final versions of two software development technologies that are part of WinFX, the underlying programming model being introduced with Vista, which is slated to ship late this year.


The release is "a significant checkpoint" on the road toward delivery of the company's new programming model, since it allows developers to build and deploy applications on their core production systems, said Ari Bixhorn, director of Web services strategy at Microsoft.


WinFX combines Microsoft's existing .Net programming model with new tools for more easily linking software over the Internet, displaying data and creating business systems, Microsoft said. It will be shipped with Vista and also made available in versions for Microsoft's current client and server operating systems, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Bixhorn said.


The programming model includes the application programming interfaces used by millions of developers to build software that runs on Windows. Microsoft's goal in certifying parts of WinFX for production use--ahead of Vista's launch--is to entice developers to create new programs tied to the new development model, thus driving demand for Vista.


The two new technologies released on Wednesday are Windows Communication Foundation, developed under the code name Indigo, and Windows Workflow Foundation. WCF links server-based systems using Web services, while WWF is used to map business processes to networked applications.


Both are being made available under what Microsoft terms a "go live" license, meaning that the code can be used in production settings.


Microsoft demonstrated Vista, developed under the code name Longhorn, in 2003 and planned to release the operating system in 2004, but the company has since scaled back its initial plans for the release.


Making parts of WinFX backward-compatible with current Windows releases means that developers can get started before Vista arrives and new programs will work on existing PCs, Bixhorn said.


"We're giving customers the green light to use this in production," he said. "We have been working with several hundred early adopters for past year or so. We've done reliability testing...and additional stress tests that enable (the software) to be used in production."


The two technologies, in addition to a preview release of WinFX, are available to the general public for free download from Microsoft's Developer Network Web site, Bixhorn said.


One of Microsoft's goals with the programming model is to make Windows more appealing to companies building new business applications that use a development method called a service-oriented architecture. SOAs are modular systems that rely on standards--notably Web services and XML--to be more flexible and cost-effective, analysts say.


Overall, while Microsoft executives continue to predict widescale acceptance of Vista by businesses, market analysts say the switch won't happen overnight. Gartner analyst Michael Silver, for instance, says that companies will need at least 18 months of preparation and testing after Vista's debut before they can deploy it.
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http://news.com.com/Microsoft+relea...+technologies/2100-1016_3-6028125.html?tag=nl


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http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getthebeta/golive
 
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With little fanfare, Microsoft just announced that the xX64 version of Windows Vista will require all kernel-mode code to be digitally signed. This is very different than the current WHQL program, where the user ultimately decides how they want to handle unsigned drivers.

Vista driver developers must obtain a Publisher Identity Certificate (PIC) from Microsoft. Microsoft says they won't charge for it, but they require that you have a Class 3 Commercial Software Publisher Certificate from Verisign. This costs $500 per year, and as the name implies, is only available to commercial entities.

Also, drivers must be signed for devices that stream protected content. This includes audio drivers that use Protected User Mode Audio (PUMA) and Protected Audio Path (PAP), and video device drivers that handle protected video path-output protection management (PVP-OPM) commands.
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View: Microsoft x64 PIC Driver Requirements

Link: OSNEWS


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User mode drivers do not need to be signed
So you webcam will still work without new signed drivers.

On top of that this is 64-bit only.
You can keep running 32-bit if you are so concerned.
There aren't any 64-bit drivers for most hardware in the market.
So the number of hardware devices which are effected by this change is minisule.
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Excellent news a lot of drivers are very poorly made so this will ensure they don't mess the OS up.
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Wasn't there some place that found most XP crashes were do to Driver issues? Hopefully between the 2003 codebase, the recoding, and the new driver standards Vista will be a rock of stability, compaired to XP/2000 which IMO are already VERY darn stable.
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Anything that makes Windwos more stable I'm all for..I dont use any 3rd part drivers anyway.



Erm, I actually consider this a GOOD feature as overall, it'll help protect the systems stability.

Overall, what this forces is... If a company is going to make a "rootkit", in order for it to work, it has to go through Microsoft to approve it first. This is actually a good step against viruses/annoying companies.

Heck, it's also Microsoft's way of "controlling" stability on the system. (Think Mac.) Personally, I find it a good thing.

Oh, and if you read this... This is for KERNEL MODE drivers. Remember, the majority of drivers for Vista are supposed to NOT be run in ernel mode due to Microsoft's new stability attempts. So, it's not bad. It's not as if ALL your drivers will be running in system privs. >.>

Geh.
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Só para esclarecer algumas dúvidas. Eu acho que é um passo importante. Não sei o que será feito de Omega Drivers para a ATI por exemplo, mas no entanto é uma boa medida.
 
greven disse:
Só para esclarecer algumas dúvidas. Eu acho que é um passo importante. Não sei o que será feito de Omega Drivers para a ATI por exemplo, mas no entanto é uma boa medida.
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Se a ATI ou a Nvidia aproveitarem a funcionalidade de Plug-In's do managed code (.NET 2.0), aínda é possível que continuem a existir drivers com "modificações", mas aqui a decisão é dos fabricantes (mais funcionalidade ou mais estabilidade).

Em hardware DX9, as gráficas controlam a sua própria memória RAM em conjunto com os drivers.

Nas placas DX10, esse controlo é partilhado com o kernel do próprio Windows (particionamento dos pipelines para múltiplas aplicações 3D em simultâneo, vídeo, etc).
 
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Next Windows Vista CTP Scheduled for February 21st

Bink.nu is reporting that a pre beta 2 CTP build will be made available to testers on February 21st. This will be the first 'feature complete' version preceeding Beta 2 which is expected to be complete by April.

Bink also goes on to say that a Longhorn Server version is not likely to be included in this CTP.

Paul Thurrott originally reported the date being set at February 17th, whiile he might be off on the date, anywhere in that week will be fine with us.
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News: Neowin
 
No more "Beta 2".
A partir de agora, todas as CTP's e CPP's, a partir da "December CTP", serão apelidadas de "Beta 2":
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/1/28/2690


Microsoft jettisons Windows Vista Beta 2



Jim Allchin, co-president of the Microsoft Platform Products and Services Division, has announced that Microsoft will not be releasing a second beta of Windows Vista. Instead, the company is going to distribute Community Technology Preview (CTP) builds to receive feedback about the upcoming Windows operating system.


The first quarter CTP is rumored to hit this February, and it will be released to Technology Adoption Program (TAP) testers. The February CTP is going to include functionality that will allow it to be installed on top of Windows XP. A second quarter Customer Preview Program (CPP) build is planned for April.


Allchin was quoted as saying that the current December CTP of Windows Vista is feature complete, but also remarked, "we [Microsoft] still have lots of bugs, application performance and compatibility things to work on." Because what's left of Vista's changes should be minor, all builds starting with the December CTP are to be labeled "Beta 2" releases.


One minor but notable change that Allchin mentioned was that Vista will not ship with all of its OS bits intact due to timing restrictions within the release schedule. Microsoft will instead let users upgrade the OS at any time that they wish—as opposed to the unheard of not letting them upgrade any time they wish. Allchin was not clear on whether upgrades will be performed through physical media, download, or both.


If Microsoft runs into future quality problems with Vista, Allchin is more than willing to delay the product again. Another delay? Those are not words that Chris Jones wants to hear. Those are also not the words that anyone building a new PC for Vista wants to hear. Then again, "bug-ridden operating system" are not words that anyone wishes to hear.
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Microsoft is to release a new CTP build of Vista on the 21st


According to Vista beta testers, Microsoft is expected to release the latest (Community Technology Preview) CTP of Windows Vista on Tuesday. At the same time, the Redmond-based company will also release the first beta of developmental tools for the new operating system.

The February CTP will be a “feature complete release” according to Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin. Regular users (not just beta testers) can expect a Customer Preview Program (CPP) release of Vista some time in April.

The last CTP for Windows Vista was released to testers on December 19th. That release saw a drastically revamped setup process, a new Start button/menu system, the first integration of Windows Defender along with a host of updates to long-standing applications like Windows Media Player.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=862
 
The February CTP will be a “feature complete release” according to Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin. Regular users (not just beta testers) can expect a Customer Preview Program (CPP) release of Vista some time in April.
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Isto quer dizer que qualquer um vai poder fazer o download da CPP em Abril? Tal como aconteceu com o WinXP x64 (?)?

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Eu experimentei a versao beta2 num dothan 1.8 com 512MB e uma radeon9700. À partida fica logo a consumir mais de 500MB de ram, mas os efeitos são realmente porreiros.

Tive um bocado a anhar com o sistema novo para navegar nos ficheiros, e nao encontrei la o windows explorer! =|Também nao gostei do sistema de segurança com tudo integrado, fiquei com alguma sensação de nao poder configurar nem controlar nada daquilo. Consegui lá instalar programas do XP tranquilamente. Já agora, em winXP o BOINC tem melhores benchmarks. :D

A versao não é final ainda, mas estou a contar em ter de comprar uma maquina nova se quizer correr aquilo. Acho que me vou virar é pro kunbuto & KDE4 quando sair.
 
shello disse:
Isto quer dizer que qualquer um vai poder fazer o download da CPP em Abril? Tal como aconteceu com o WinXP x64 (?)?

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Exactamente.

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T0utatis, a Beta 2 não existe, o que existe são as várias CTP's, que, desde Outubro, se chamam todas oficialmente "Beta 2", mas não existirá uma versão final da mesma, como aconteceu com a Beta 1.
Em vez disso, serão lançadas estas CTP's e CPP's a intervalos mais ou menos regulares, até ao lançamento da versão comercial (nem sequer as Release Candidates estão programadas, como aconteceu nos anteriores Windows XP, 2000, Server 2003, etc)
 
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