For those who want to give their Windows interface the Ubuntu look. Nice touch with the footprint start button.

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Extensive collection of finely crafted icons for your desktop. These are some of the best icons I’ve come across…kudos to the designer Jordan M!
And the website is very well designed too

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Nice polished set of professionally designed icons. Simple, effective and clear cut.

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Quote: “After getting a lot of demand for a Basic version of my theme “AeroVG”, I’m proud to announce my new theme “Vista Blue Refresh”. Basically its an update over my previous theme “Vista Blue RTM” with almost all new features of “AeroVG” theme.

I have created this theme for “Windows Vista Basic” users who can’t use “Aero” in their systems and are forced to use the Vista Basic theme. It also contains a version for Aero which is same as “AeroVG” theme.”

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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday indicated that Windows 7, the next major version of Windows, could come within the next year, far ahead of the development schedule previously indicated by the software maker.

In response to a question about Windows Vista, Gates, speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank here, said: “Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version.” Referring to Windows 7, the code name for the next full release of Windows client software, Gates said: “I’m super-enthused about what it will do in lots of ways.”

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In a decision that highlights Windows Vista’s hefty system requirements, Microsoft said Thursday that it would allow computer makers to continue to sell the older Windows XP operating system on “ultra low-cost PCs” for an extended period.

Microsoft said it would allow system vendors to preload the Home edition of Windows XP on ULCPCs through June 2010, or one year after the next version of Windows becomes generally available.

Microsoft defines ULCPCs as, among other things, systems that use discount-line processors and lack a separate graphics card. An example of such as system is the Asus Eee PC, which runs Windows XP or Linux and sells for less than $400.

Such low-spec machines would be incapable of running Vista…

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CO2 Saver is a lightweight program that manages your computer’s power usage when it’s idle, saving energy and decreasing the demand on your power utility.

The less electricity produced, the fewer harmful emissions and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are released into the atmosphere…

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Quote “I wanted to make a Visual Style that was sexy, yet subtle. Eye catching, yet didn’t distract you from what you are doing. And most importantly, a Visual Style that you could keep applied for a long time. I think I have successfully done just that”

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Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday posted a major package of updates and security fixes for Windows Vista.

The world’s largest software maker said “Service Pack 1″ will improve Vista’s reliability, security and performance, though many components already have been released during monthly updates since the operating system went on sale just over a year ago.

Industry analysts offered mixed reports on whether the updates make their Vista experience better.

Michael Cherry, of the research group Directions on Microsoft, said the time it took to copy files over a network “returned to normal” with SP1 — meaning the operation felt as speedy as it did using Windows XP, Vista’s predecessor.

But he said one thing SP1 didn’t fix was his ability to wake his PC from sleep mode, which he described as “a hit or miss affair.”

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In an effort to get consumers to upgrade their older computers to its newest operating system, Microsoft said Friday that it plans to cut the prices of packaged versions of Windows Vista by as much as nearly 50% in some countries.

Effective with release of the boxed edition of Vista Service Pack 1, expected to be available at stores within the next several weeks, the price for a full, retail copy of Windows Vista Ultimate in the U.S. has been reduced 20% to $320 from $400. The upgrade version of Ultimate has been cut to $220 from $260. The full version of Vista Home Premium falls 19% to $130 from $160, according to Microsoft.

Computer users in Europe and emerging markets will see even bigger price cuts. In the U.K., the price for the full version of Vista Home Premium drops 44% to 131.92 pounds from 233.60 pounds. The list price for Home Premium in South Africa will fall 41% to about Rand 1700.

Microsoft said Vista price cuts in emerging markets — where the company faces the most competition from open source software — will be as high as 48% in some countries…

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