Windows SteadyState 2.5 Beta

Windows SteadyState 2.5 Beta supporting Windows Vista is now available for testing. Whether you manage computers in a school computer lab or an Internet cafe, a library, or even in your home, Windows SteadyState helps make it easy for you to keep your computers running the way you want them to.

Along with the Beta, be sure to download the updated Windows SteadyState Handbook.

Features

• Windows Disk Protection
• User Restrictions and Settings
• User Account Manager
• Computer Restrictions
• Schedule Software Updates

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2

This is an incremental release to Windows Embedded CE 6.0. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 provides the latest breakthrough technologies that help Windows Embedded CE 6.0 device makers efficiently build small footprint devices that connect to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

• Support for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 6.0
• Support for Web Services on Devices (WSD) protocol stack and application programming interfaces (API)
• Support for Video over IP telephony calls
• Additional Voice over IP (VoIP) functionality, including a VoIP boot loader application and resources for QVGA landscape and QVGA portrait user interfaces
• Support for the Pocket Outlook Object Model (POOM) and ActiveSync in the VoIP Home Screen and VoIP Contacts applications
• New sample board support packages (BSPs)
• Support for Auto Proxy Configuration Support in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Embedded CE
  
• Support for USB CCID Smart Card readers
• Support for Windows Media Player OLE Control Extension (OCX) 7
• Support for flash media management
• A new pluggable font engine framework
• Secure Digital (SD) bus driver that supports SDHC specification 2.00 functionality, such as Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) cards
  

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Windows Live Photo Gallery

Get creative and share your photos and videos.

Windows Live Photo Gallery makes it easy to organize, share and edit your photographs. Upload creative photo slideshows to your Windows Live Space with just a few clicks. Download entire albums from Windows Live Spaces at high resolution. Create a cool panoramic view by combining multiple photos. Enhance your photos by adjusting things like color and exposure. Improve them with simple crop and red-eye fixes.

This application supports Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2.

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Windows Live Mail

A faster, easier, and safer way to manage your e-mail accounts.

Windows Live Mail is a desktop application that lets you access multiple e-mail accounts in one place, even Yahoo and Gmail accounts. Search for messages across multiple accounts. Drag, drop, and organize your mail with one click. Preview messages in the Reading Pane. Get powerful virus scanning and cleaning. Block suspicious messages and destroy junk e-mail with a single click. Help protect your e-mail accounts from harmful phishing scams. Create and edit photo e-mails in a snap.

This application supports Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2 and need Windows Internet Explorer 6 SP1 or later.

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Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 for Windows Desktop Beta 2

SQL Server Compact 3.5 is a small footprint in-process database engine that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows Desktops and Mobile Devices. This download contains the files for SQL Server Compact 3.5 and Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.Net for Windows Desktop platform

• SQL Server Compact 3.5 includes a host of new features including the following:
  
• LINQ to SQL enabling developers to integrate data access directly into their code
  
• Side-by-side installation together with SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (version 3.1)
  
• Support for newer and more secure encryption algorithms
  
• Additional timestamp (row-version) data type
  
• Enhanced support for Transact-SQL statements including:
  
  • Nested query in SELECT FROM clause
  • CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY
  • CAST and DECIMAL
  • TOP
  • SET IDENTITY INSERT
• Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET providing the ability to synchronize data from disparate sources over two-tier, N-tier, and service-based architectures
  
• Support for System.Transactions

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Internet Explorer Administration Kit 7

Internet Explorer 7 Administration Kit (IEAK 7) enables the most efficient way to deploy Internet Explorer 7 and manage Web-based solutions.

This administration kit supports Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2.

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