Microsoft has finally released the system requirements that will be needed to run Windows Vista. I am actually surprised at how low the system requirements are, but I guess there are different "modes" that you can run Vista in so that it isn't so memory and graphics intensive. Here are the requirements:

Microsoft is trying to compete with Dreamweaver by developing a "real" web development tool. Expression Web Designer is a good effort by Microsoft but they will not be able to pull off an application that will compete with Dreamweaver (except possibly by price). People use Dreamweaver because it generates clean code and can create a large range of page formats (PHP, ASP, etc...).

I was doing a search for some information on the Google Blog Search today when I noticed a new sidebar with some nifty features. The main feature that they added was the ability to view articles during a certain time period (for example: only articles from the last week). This is great because many times a search will provide results that are very old and irrelevant to you.

Microsoft has finally released the Windows Media Player 11 Beta (WMP11) to the public. The build number is 11.0.5358.4827 which is slightly newer than the 11.0.5358.4826 build that was leaked last week.

It appears that the Opera Product Page may have been hacked. The first paragraph of the page states:

The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat.

Garret Rogers from Googling Google has found some code snippets that refer to experimental features in the newly released Google Notebook. The first experimental feature that Garret found was the implementation of gadgets into your Notebook. We are not quite sure how that will work but the gadgets available should be the same ones you can place on your Personalized Homepage.