Windows Vista New Theme
Microsoft Corp. released another "community technology preview" of Windows Vista, adding a number of new features to the preliminary version of the upcoming operating system.
Monday's preview added new security features and updated the program's on-screen appearance, giving a further sense for where the company is headed with the new Windows version.
The operating system is Microsoft's biggest moneymaker, used on most of the world's PCs.
It was the third such preview, issued for use and testing by software developers, information-technology professionals and others along those lines.
But Microsoft declined to give a date for the second beta release of Windows Vista, a more formal preliminary version that will also be made available to some end users.
The first beta was issued in July, and the second beta was originally expected this month, but the company said it won't have more details on its timing until early next year.
Microsoft has said a final version of Windows Vista will be released in the second half of 2006..
