Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor will help you determine if your current PC is ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista. It will also help you to choose the edition of Windows Vista that’s right for you. Download the Upgrade Advisor to run an analysis of your current PC and use the detailed feedback to ensure that your PC is ready for the edition of Windows Vista that you want.
System Requirements:
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP Service Pack 2
- A minimum of .NET Framework 1.1 and MSXML 4.0
Download: Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor 1.0

Windows Mobile 6.0 images have been released for developers. The standard and professional are available separately.
Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard SDK
Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional SDK
Microsoft recently announced that the Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 60 day evaluation is available for download.
With this trial you can evaluate the new features of Microsoft Office 2007 for 60 days before deploying the software in your organization, or if your an individual take the new version of Office 2007 for a test run before upgrading.
Download the Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise evaluation
For all those power users out there, the Windows PowerShell Team have just announced the availability of PowerShell for Microsoft Windows Vista.
The Windows PowerShell Team Blog
Download Windows PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista 32bit
Download Windows PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista 64bit
MSN has an interesting article on 15 reasons why you should upgrade to Microsoft Windows Vista.
Windows Vista is here. To anyone who has been sitting on the fence over whether to upgrade to Microsoft’s new operating system, I’ll say it loud and clear: It’s time to make the jump. There are plenty of reasons to leave Windows XP and install Windows Vista, and below are my top 15 favorites.
Windows Vista: 15 Reasons to Switch
Just in time for the launch of Windows Vista the Windows Live Messenger Team released Windows Live Messenger 8.1.
3,009 beta testers submitted 1010 bugs and 456 suggestions as well as 6000 posts in the newsgroup and the final build number is 8.1.0178.00
Download: Windows Live Messenger 8.1
Microsoft Windows Vista has been launched today, Bill Gates announced the launch at an event in New York City.
I’ve been using Microsoft Windows Vista on my laptop for nearly a month thanks to my TechNet subscription and so far I haven’t been disappointed.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft Windows Vista will be as successful as Microsoft Windows XP and how Microsoft Windows Live will integrate into the grand scheme of things.
I will be closely following the future development of Microsoft Windows Vista and the Microsoft Windows Live Services.