Here’s a nice collection of the Windows Vista Build 5744 Screenshot Gallery. Feast your eyes on some cool Aero graphics and unless they kick some good sense into the Vista core security functions, it will be 2 years before I actually feel like using it.

Windows Vista Build 5744 Gallery 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.”

This new souped up version of the Lenovo N100 widescreen notebook is not some Made in China cheap gadget. It’s Vista Premium Ready and features some mouth watering features that even hard core gamers will love…

The Lenovo N100 widescreen notebook come with the latest Intel Core(TM)2 Duo (64-bit) and Intel Celeron M processors to leverage the power of 64-bit technology to manage heavier applications and experience greater multimedia performance on their Vista or Office suites. For faster wireless connectivity, it comes with “Multiple In/Multiple Out” (MIMO), the next-generation WiFi technology based on 802.11n standards. The N100 is also equipped with a 15.4-inch (1) VibrantView display and also offers the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 with either 64Mbps or 128Mbps in select models to drive high-end graphics performance.

Lenovo N100 widescreen notebook PC is Vista Ready source

Prostoalex (a blogger I know personally) writes the below :

“A Microsoft-sponsored study found that Vista will be a boon to European economy, as it ‘will create more than 50,000 technology jobs in six large European countries and will lead to a flood of economic benefits for companies there,’ News.com reports. Europe will see a total of 1.2 mln paychecks thanks to the new operating system: ‘In the six countries studied, more than 150,000 IT companies will produce, sell or distribute products or services running on Windows Vista in 2007 and will employ 400,000 people, IDC said. Another 650,000 will be employed in the IT departments of businesses that rely on Vista.’”

Well, its undeniable that any software company that opens in EU does bring jobs with it….But they can also shut down anytime and bring suffering too when a VSS happens. What’s the big deal. Vista will also be a boon to security software companies if crackers find out more of its bugs… Microsoft is blowing its horn a bit too much this time…