Daily Archive for February 23rd, 2006

Google Release Free Website Service

Google Pages

Google have launched Google Page Creator, a free website creation tool.

Perhaps best described as Geocities for the 21st century, Page Creator takes the Google AJAX magic and applies it to website design. The process is simple, albeit, at this time, a little buggy.

In a fashion remarkably similar to Powerpoint, users can pick from a number of themes (or change them on the go) and text layouts. It makes use of a rather clever What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor, so users don’t have to face the prospect of editing HTML (but the option exists). Best of all, in true ground breaking fashion, Google lets you have 100MB of space for free, and it doesn’t even put ads on your homepage.

It’s all very easy; of course, that’s the idea. Google have identified an area of the web which has garnered little interest in the last few years. “Free” providers traditionally have provided a lack lustre offering designed to try and persuade people to go up to pay-for options. No longer. Google Pages sees the company delve into a natural but new field, and will no doubt be popular.

Sign-up for the service

Source:Neowin.net

Windows Vista Enterprise Feb CTP Released

Brad Goldberg, General Manager of Windows Client Product Management has announced the availability of the enterprise CTP today.
Vista will include new deployment and imaging technologies driving deployment costs down and patching reboots down. Vista is now officially feature complete and we will see a combination of Beta 2 with a CTP in 2Q 2006. General availability targetted for 2nd Half 2006 – exact date depends on quality.
Main points of Vista for the Enterprise:

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Deployment Costs Go down
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Secure and compliant desktop
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Connecting people to information
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Increasing mobile and remote productivity

5308 is now available from connect as:
FebCTP_5308_64bit_Main_Staged_DVD.iso, 3,675.94MB
FebCTP_5308_32bit_Main_Staged_DVD.iso, 2,780.79MB

Source: Neowin.net