Lighting Up on Windows Vista
10 things you can do to make your application shine when it runs on Windows Vista.
msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/top10/

1. Follow the Windows Vista style guidelines
2. Enrich the user experience --使用Avalon
3. Enable users to visualize, organize, and search
4. Run securely ---安全被在优先的位置
5. Design for reliability and manageability
6. Establish a customer feedback loop --新观点
7. Build for connected systems --使用Indigo
8. Bring data to the user with RSS --用RSS代替以前的超链接
9. Make document data accessible
10. Build for mobility

9和10 我到认为不一定这么出众 不过文章中众多的概念和资源链接，至少显示出未来应用的一些设计趋势和流行方向

user experience (UX) 变成一个很重要的概念和特性
Windows Vista UX Guidelines -- 不错的文档，未来UI的Guidelines
www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fd380553-911e-4659-a085-4dd58ae4b9ae&displaylang=en

新的文档和字体服务 XSP-- (formerly code-named "Metro"  is a new XML-based file
什么是XSP
blogs.msdn.com/fyuan/archive/2005/09/11/463708.aspx

Creating XPS Documents from Visual, plus an insider look at an XPS Document
blogs.msdn.com/fyuan/archive/2005/09/12/463887.aspx

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