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Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED
24 January 08 01:27 PM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

Microsoft, Dell and (RED) announced a partnership to help people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. All the details are over on the Windows Vista blog . There's also some coverage of it over on Engadget . Read More...

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Keeping the taskbar transparent when your deskband is enabled
22 January 08 03:51 PM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

If you have code that implements a deskband for the Windows Taskbar in Windows Vista, you may have noticed that it causes the taskbar to appear opaque when there is not a maximized window open, instead of being transparent, but darkly tinted which is Read More...

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Camera RAW Codecs for Windows
03 January 08 11:43 PM | KamVedBrat | 4 Comments   

One of the features we added in Windows Vista was a platform to support for decoding camera raw images in Windows Photo Gallery (and later Windows Live Gallery), Windows Explorer, and Win32 & WPF applications. The camera IHV community has done a great Read More...

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Vista Virtual Desktop Manager
22 August 07 10:49 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

I recently discovered this project over on codeplex . It's a virtual desktop manager for Windows Vista that uses the live thumbnail preview API's exposed by the Desktop Window Manager. It's still very beta, but a great example of some of the innovation Read More...

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Mary Jo Foley says Leopard looks like Windows Vista
14 June 07 11:46 AM | KamVedBrat | 3 Comments   

When we did the visuals for Vista, we worked really hard to get a to a look and feel that was streamlined, efficient, and modern. We knew people would compare what we're doing to what other companies do, but I never expected this . Read More...

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Scott Hanselman looks at Vista task switching applications
18 April 07 11:42 AM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

Scott wrote a quick review of some different Task Switching applications that have been written for Windows Vista using the new window thumbnail preview API's that are part of Windows Vista's desktop composition system. Read More...

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Why Intel 915 graphics don’t have a WDDM driver for Windows Vista
03 April 07 10:36 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

A common question among folks who are upgrading to Windows Vista on slightly older notebooks, tablet PC's, and UMPC's is why the Intel 915 graphics chipset doesn't have WDDM support, as WDDM support is a prerequisite for Desktop Composition. The folks Read More...

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Creating a High DPI application in Windows Vista
23 March 07 11:57 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

The folks over at RealWorld Graphics posted a nice write up on how developers working on native Win32 applications can create DPI aware applications for Windows Vista. For new applications, using Windows Presentation Foundation is a strong solution in Read More...

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Ben Forta is hooked on Windows Vista
21 March 07 04:07 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

Ben Forta has a nice write-up about his experience using Windows Vista. Kind words from a senior guy at Adobe . Read More...

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Visual Studio and Windows Vista
07 March 07 02:04 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

There is now an update available for Visual Studio that addresses many of the issues regarding using VS on Windows Vista. The details are on the download page . Read More...

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iTunes & Quicktime and Aero
07 March 07 11:40 AM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

I made a post about a year ago regarding how some applications have a side effect of disabling Aero. While it is still possible to create applications that have this side-effect (due to the underlying problem of applications accessing the primary display Read More...

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Vista Wallpapers
26 February 07 11:27 PM | KamVedBrat | 4 Comments   

The Windows Vista blog links to some great Vista wallpapers. Read More...

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Finally! BillG comments on the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads
22 February 07 09:17 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

I saw this yesterday. BillG was interviewed for Newsweek and the topic of Apple's advertising came up. The whole interview is a great read, but here's my favorite comment: "I don't even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these Read More...

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WPF Application Portfolio
14 February 07 10:33 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Tim Sneath has been maintaining a great list of new applications developed using WPF on his blog. Read More...

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Windows Vista tips and tricks
07 February 07 04:26 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

The folks over at howtogeek.com have compiled a great list of tips and tricks for working with Windows Vista. Read More...

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