This Microsoft Vista Visual Tour by computerworld is extremely cool and it hghtlights some features that normal users aren’t going to like. Those features are also bound to come out in the RTM version and it’s a good read if you want to know its going to make your more productive or stressful. Read on at your own risk here

Business and home users will be nonplussed by the blizzard of protect-you-from-yourself password-entry and “Continue” boxes required by the User Account Controls feature, for example. Networking functions and settings are scattered all over the place. The same is true of what Windows XP calls Display Properties. By default, the main menus (you know, File, Edit, View, etc.) are turned off on Windows Vista folders, Internet Explorer 7 and several other programs and utilities that come with Vista. Listing 20 things you won’t like about Windows Vista was unfortunately all too easy. The question is: Why couldn’t Microsoft see this coming?

Thanks to Nima Dilmaghani, who is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, we now know how you can get your self a free legal production version of Windows Vista installed your on PC.

Free Legal Production Version Windows Vista Offer source

ASUS will be upping the ante for Vista powered notebooks. They will be adding Mobility Radeon X1700 graphics processor, with its newly launched high-performance notebooks, including the Mobile TV, Mobility, Multimedia and Entertainment notebook series.

according to the ATI press release :

“Today’s mobile notebook users demand desktop-class processing performance with exceptional digital multimedia capability,” said Tony Chen, general manager of ASUS Notebook Business. “ATI’s Mobility Radeon X1700, with its powerful 3D, video, and power saving technologies, is an ideal solution for our Vista capable notebooks to deliver a true-to-life digital entertainment experience.”

Windows Anytime Upgrade for Vista sounds like a good idea. Its basically a single DVD that will have all the Vista versions on it. Users can upgrade between versions anytime by simply purchasing a new product key. Good stuff….Good work MS. I’m sure crackers would love to crack the product keys…

Users would only be installing the version of the operating system that they had purchased, as the product key would be version-specific. Versions range from Starter to Ultimate editions. Asked if this system meant upgrades would be cheaper, as production and retail costs for Microsoft will be lowered, the spokesperson said they could not give any details of pricing at the moment.