Windows Vista and Office 12

At a PDC Convention earlier this year, it was announced that Microsoft had finally settled on a name for the new version of Windows due for release in fall 2006.

Windows Vista is a robust OS with so many excellent features, bells and whistles, the I thought I would share some of that information here with you.

On a webcast located on the Microsoft.com website, you can see a VERY lengthy address by Bill Gates, with presentations by Chris Capossela (Corporate VP) on the new version of Windows and the New Office12 due for release at the same time.

While the two little videos show you quick clips of Windows Vista and Office12, it is an excellent idea to take a peek at the actually three hour video (I stopped watching after Chris' presentation on Office 12) because you get to be a voyeur into the future of personal and business computing. Chris shows neat new additions to the windows capabilities like thumbnail taskbar items, 3-D window scrolling, and drag and drop document editing which allows you to edit documents from a thumbnail without ever opening the document. The old windows explorer search has been replaced with a more powerful search engine that scans your entire PC for items meeting your criteria.

As you can tell, I'm just a little excited about this - but what gets me even more excited is the new Office 12!

Instead of chatter away about it, I'll just let you watch the video...
Click here to view Bill Gate's and Chris Capossela's information.


I'm really looking forward to the changes in both the operating system and the Office Suite and I know that some of you will appreciate the changes coming our way next year!