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Article: First feature-complete Vista beta released.(Microsoft Windows Vista)
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- Network World
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- February 22, 2006
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Byline: John Fontana
Microsoft Wednesday released the first beta of its Vista client operating system that is feature-complete and focused
on corporate users.
The Community Technology Preview (CTP), as the betas are now called, includes for the first time the complete set of deployment
tools built into the operating system and designed to ease the creation of Vista images and the distribution and installation
of those images on desktops. The February CTP also includes the first release of Vista's Sidebar feature, where users can
link to mini-programs called gadgets. Microsoft is including a few gadgets in the CTP, ...