New IE, Media Player Features Expected to Debut in Windows Vista Refresh

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Microsoft is poised to release to testers the second Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of Windows Vista, paving the way for a second full-fledged beta, which is now expected in December.

Among the new features which could find their way into the updated build are a number of Internet Explorer 7.0 enhancements; the resurrected "Sidebar" task pane; Windows Media Player 11.0; and new networking functionality.

Robert McLaws, president of Interscape Technologies, said that Microsoft released CTP 2 of Vista on Thursday night.

"Build 5231 (aka Windows Vista October CTP), compiled on Oct 4, 2005, was posted to the Connect website a short while ago," McLaws said in a posting to Longhornblogs.com, which has since been removed.
Other beta testers said they did not see the CTP 2 on Microsoft's private Connect testers' site. But Windows expert Ed Bott clarified that the new CTP 2 build was apparently made available to members of Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP) elite beta-test program, and not to all Connect members.

In any case, Vista CTP 2 should go to a wider group of Windows testers imminently..
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