windows vista is now available for IT professionals and developers with MSDN and TechNet subscriptions. In the coming weeks, Microsoft will start the windows vista Customer Preview Program (CPP) for developers and IT professionals who are not members of the subscription services.

windows vista comes with a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience.

The visual sophistication of windows vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it. The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive, and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently.

windows vista is engineered to be the most secure version of windows yet. The new features in windows vista help to give you the control and confidence you need to get the most out of your PC.

For organizations with complex desktop infrastructures, whether large or small, windows vista Enterprise is the operating system designed specifically to help realize a better return on IT investments. In this VHD, youll have the opportunity to road-test new and improved features including management (e.g. MUI, BDD, etc…) usability (e.g. Search, Navigation, etc…) and security (UAC, windows Defender, etc…), enhancements to the windows vista platform.

Here are some key features of "Windows Vista":

· User Experience
· Security
· Search & Organization
· Internet Explorer 7
· sidebar & Gadgets
· Performance
· windows Backup
· Networking
· windows SideShow
· Speech Recognition
· Help and Feedback
· windows Update

PowerGadgets application is a data visualization, reporting, and monitoring product that utilizes windows PowerShell, Microsofts new scripting shell, to allow the creation of Gadgets in windows XP, windows Vista, windows Server 2003, and windows Server "Longhorn".

PowerGadgets requires no complex development environments, servers, or browsers to run real-time, enterprise based Gadgets such as charts, gauges, and maps on your windows desktop or in the windows vista sidebar.

All-in-One sidebar is a sidebar control, inspired by Operas. It lets you quickly switch between sidebars, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source code or websites in the sidebar. All-in-One sidebar also includes a slide-out button and a toolbar, all of which can be extensively customized.

All-In-One sidebar provides also enhancements for many built-in and extension features and some extra features.

Enjoy a clear browser window, more toolbar space and much more

Here are some key features of "All in One Sidebar":

General
· Open in the sidebar: Bookmarks, History, Downloads, Extensions and Themes (Firefox <= 1.5), Add-ons (Firefox >= 2.0), Page Info, Page Source, Error Console and DOM Inspector from a fully configurable toolbar
· Show/hide sidebar automatically, with additional toolbar button (off by default)
· Set the orientation to left or right
· sidebar Switch to toggle the toolbar and the sidebar with only one click
· sidebar Grippy to collapse the sidebar
· sidebar collapsing instead of closing
· MultiPanel sidebar - open a website, the source code or different browser information (e.g. about:config) in the sidebar
· PanelTab Button - open any sidebar content in a new tab or in a window and open any tab content in the sidebar
· Fully configurable keyboard shortcuts
· Customize the behavior of the sidebar at startup, in fullscreen mode and more. E.g. you can choose a sidebar panel which should open automatically at browser startup
· Sidebars Button - easy access all installed sidebars. All sidebar extensions are supported, which creates a menu item in Firefoxs sidebar menu
· Toolbar buttons for all new sidebar panels with options to open the content in the sidebar, in a new tab or in a window
· (Downloads, Extensions, Themes, MultiPanel, Page Info, Page Source, Error Console, DOM Inspector)
· Set the minimum, default and maximum width of the sidebar and restore these settings easily
· Export/import settings from the options dialog - allows easier configuration on a second computer or after creating a new profile

Bookmarks & History
· Open/close all folders
· Close automatically other folders
· (same behavior as in MSIE, but it only works when you click on a folder name, not on the "+ signs")
· "Clear search" button
· "Tools" button with more options and special support for Enhanced Boomark Search

Downloads
· Layout optimized for the sidebar
· Slim list
· Alphabetically sorted list (off by default)
· Counter in the sidebar header
· Highlight the different states (finished/paused/unfinished, failed/canceled)

Extension & Themes (FF <= 1.5) or Add-ons (FF >= 2.0)
· Layout optimized for the sidebar
· Slim list
· Alphabetically sorted list
· Counter in the sidebar header
· Highlight the different states (enabled/disabled, to be installed/to be uninstalled)
· Update all extensions/themes
· Install new extensions (several at one time)/themes
· Tools menu with links for downloading extensions/themes
· Homepage of extensions and themes always opens in a new tab instead of a new window

MultiPanel
· Open a website in the sidebar, optional with Small Screen Rendering
· Open the source code in the sidebar, optional with automatically reload
· Open different browser information in the sidebar
· (about:config, about:plugins, about:cache, about:cache?device=disk, about:cache?device=memory, about:buildconfig, about:, about:credits, about:license, about:mozilla)

Page Info
· Optional with automatically reload
· Additional tab buttons for very small sidebars

Page Source
· Optional with automatically reload

Error Console
· Layout optimized for the sidebar
· Highlight the different states (message, warning, error)

CamGadget is a small application for the new windows vista sidebar that shows about 1000 WebCams in a slideshow.

You can Select categories like: Sport, people.

This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for windows released on windows Update on February 12th, 2008. February 2007 Security and Critical Releases ISO Image does not contain security updates for any other Microsoft products.

This DVD5 ISO image is intended for corporate administrators who manage large multinational organizations, who need to download multiple individual language versions of each security update and who do not use an automated solution such as WSUS. Use this image to download multiple updates in all languages at the same time.

Caution: Be sure to check the individual security bulletins at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security prior to deployment of these updates to ensure that the files have not been updated at a later date.

This DVD5 image contains the following updates:

KB931374 / (MS08-003)
· windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages

KB943484 / (MS08-003)
· windows 2000 - 24 languages
· windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages

KB946456 / (MS08-004)
· windows vista - 36 languages
· windows vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages

KB942831 / (MS08-005)
· windows 2000 - 24 languages
· windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
· windows vista - 36 languages
· windows vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages

KB942830 / (MS08-006)
· windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages

KB946026 / (MS08-007)
· windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
· windows vista - 36 languages
· windows vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages

KB943055 / (MS08-008)
· windows 2000 - 24 languages
· windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
· windows vista - 36 languages
· windows vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages

KB944533 / (MS08-010)
· windows 2000 - 24 languages
· windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
· windows vista - 36 languages
· windows vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages

Requirements:

· windows 2000 Service Pack 4; windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 for Itanium-based Systems; windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 x64 Edition; windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition; windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition; windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; windows Vista; windows vista Business 64-bit edition; windows vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; windows vista Home Basic 64-bit edition; windows vista Home Premium 64-bit edition; windows vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; windows XP Service Pack 2

Microsoft Office Professional description
Test Drive 2 new Microsoft platforms, windows vista Enterprise and Office 2007 Professional, and experience how they work better This VHD contains both the 30 day edition of windows vista Enterprise Edition and an evaluation of Office 2007 Professional which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher and Access.

See how with these new platforms can simplify how people work together, find information and improve business insight, help protect and manage content, and reduce IT costs and improve security. Test drive today to experience how windows vista and Office 2007 work better together!

Since Microsoft has decided to split the VHD in 12 archives instead of just 4, its no longer possible to list all download links on the download webpage, so we will list them here, in the description. Please make sure you completely download all archives before trying to extract the VHD.

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10 / Part 11 / Part 12

Requirements:

· A virtualization product that supports the VHD format is required to use this virtual machine. Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Virtual Server are provided for free and can be used with these VHD based virtual machines.
· In addition to the System Requirements for the virtualization product, you will need additional disk and memory resources for running the virtual machine. This VHD is pre-configured to use approximately 10GB of hard disk space and approximately 768MB of memory.


Limitations:

· 30 days evaluation period

Show sidebar description
Take control of your windows vista sidebar with this small freeware program. Take control of your windows vista sidebar with the small, simple and free Show Sidebar.

So you have windows vista and you love all the new features and gadgets, especially the Sidebar?

Theres just one small thing you may dislike with the sidebar : either you leave it always on top (and it eats up quite a lot of screen space) or you leave it behind all other windows. Thats what you may do, but you would love to be able to bring it to the top easily with the mouse.

Well now you can, thanks to the small freeware program Show Sidebar.

Just save it anywhere on your hard disk and launch it to see the magic (move your mouse to the top-right corner of your screen to make the sidebar appear).

Module description
Module is simple to install alternative for the windows vista Sidebar Cant wait for Microsofts Sidebar? Why not try ours?

Introducing Module, our version of the Sidebar. Simply launch the application, type in your zip code, and away you go.

Individual widgets can be reordered and toggled on and off. Module leverages services from Google, BigCharts, Yahoo, flickr, and digg.

Requirements:

· windows vista and/or .NET 3.0 framework

vista sidebar description
vista sidebar for MS windows XP/Vista has gadgets like media players, google search, yahoo search and many search engines vista sidebar for MS windows XP/Vista consists of gadgets like google/yahoo search, media players and many search engines. It has also gadgets like weather and system uptime and lots of more useful gadgets.

The sidebar uses 50% less RAM and is faster than the original Microsoft sidebar with more extras and works on Microsoft windows vista and XP. Thoosjes vista sidebar is also part of the vista Transformation Pack.that turns your XP OS into windows Vista.

Our vista sidebar for Microsoft windows XP and vista has gadgets like media players, google search, yahoo search and lots of more search engines. It has also gadgets like weather and system uptime and lots of more useful gadgets. The sidebar uses 50% less RAM and is faster than the original Microsoft sidebar with more extras and works on Microsoft windows vista and XP. Thoosjes vista sidebar is also part of the vista Transformation Pack that turns your XP OS into windows Vista.

Here are some key features of "Vista Sidebar":

· Installer
· Gadget saves settings
· RSS Gadget
· Torrent search Gadget
· Google search Gadget
· Progress Dialogs
· More sidebar skins
· System Uptime Gadget
· windows Media Player Gadget
· Clock Gadgets
· Clock adjustable skins WiFi internet status Gadget
· Recycle bin Gadget
· Picture slider Gadget
· Update features
· Harddisk Status reader Gadget
· CPU and RAM reader Gadget
· Internet Traffic status Gadget
· Calendar Gadget
· Weather Gadget

windows vista description
Microsoft windows vista VHD - enables you evaluate Microsoft windows Vista windows vista is now available for IT professionals and developers with MSDN and TechNet subscriptions. In the coming weeks, Microsoft will start the windows vista Customer Preview Program (CPP) for developers and IT professionals who are not members of the subscription services.

windows vista comes with a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience.

To install windows vista on your computer, you will have to download ALL of the following files: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18.

The visual sophistication of windows vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it. The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive, and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently.

windows vista is engineered to be the most secure version of windows yet. The new features in windows vista help to give you the control and confidence you need to get the most out of your PC.

For organizations with complex desktop infrastructures, whether large or small, windows vista Enterprise is the operating system designed specifically to help realize a better return on IT investments. In this VHD, youll have the opportunity to road-test new and improved features including management (e.g. MUI, BDD, etc…) usability (e.g. Search, Navigation, etc…) and security (UAC, windows Defender, etc…), enhancements to the windows vista platform.

Here are some key features of "Windows Vista":

· User Experience
· Security
· Search & Organization
· Internet Explorer 7
· sidebar & Gadgets
· Performance
· windows Backup
· Networking
· windows SideShow
· Speech Recognition
· Help and Feedback
· windows Update


Requirements:

· A virtualization product that supports the VHD format is required to use this virtual machine. Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Virtual Server are provided for free and can be used with these VHD based virtual machines.