One of the coolest underutilized features of Windows Vista is SideShow. Essentially, SideShow lets you access certain Vista feature from a secondary display. For example, check your email or calendar on your laptop without actually opening your lid. Or better yet, schedule a recording in Windows Media Center using a touch panel on the front of your PC case.
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It seems that the more Microsoft touts the benefits of its Vista operating system to the enterprise, the more resistance it runs into from IT executives who simply cannot justify the upgrade and migration costs.According to new research from appliance vendor KACE, more than 90 percent of IT professionals were still not sold on the virtues of Vista, with only 1 percent reporting that they had fully migrated over.
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On the face of it, Windows Vista looks as though it might be little more than its predecessor, Windows XP, with some extra double glazing on top, courtesy of fancy visual effects.However, behind the scenes, Microsoft’s programmers have been hard at work creating new ways to find and organise files.The result? A filing system that’s familiar enough to use almost immediately, but which also contains new features that make XP look like a forgetful old duffer.
Some of you maybe noticed the fact that Microsoft changed the place of the Shut Down button and replaced it with the Sleep button. In this tutorial we will show you how to change the place of the Shut Down button and put it back where you like.
It seems that Microsoft’s Windows Vista might well have an enemy within - Windows Live. Microsoft recently re-launched a raft of Windows Live services and some of the key guys from the UK development team popped into the Tech.co.uk offices to tell us all about them. Quite a few of the developments look rather familiar.


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