Welcome to the special bonus edition of MSDN Flash featuring content specifically selected to inform your Windows Vista development efforts.

It's hard to imagine a technology, past and present, with more riding on it. The enormous ecosystem behind the Windows Vista desktop infrastructure brings to mind a famous aviation quote which states that "Helicopters are really a bunch of parts flying in relatively close formation, all rotating around a different axis. Things work well until one of the parts breaks formation."

As an important member of this ecosystem, we want to help you answer a key question - Why Develop for Windows Vista? - while also providing information about how you can differentiate your applications with Windows Vista by providing significantly enhanced user experiences and robust communications capabilities, and taking advantage of a new set of APIs that help you make your applications more predictable, manageable, and secure.

For this, we've assembled a brand new list of short videos. These crisp, focused presentations can be very effective learning tools which require very little time investment. We've also highlighted some of the important recent articles from MSDN Magazine if more in-depth treatment is what you are after.

Finally, if you are at Tech·Ed Developers in Orlando next week, come find out more about Windows Vista at the Meet the Experts Zone in the TLC Red Area.

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