Microsoft drops another feature from Vista

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Jun 8, 20062 mins

Best of the blogs: The promise of a wizard-driven, dead-simple to use PC Sync capability that would keep data current across multiple PCs for any single user has been cut from Windows Vista, Oliver Rist reports in One Mo’ Vista feature goes to boot hill.

Columnists’ corner: That’s not to say that Rist is unhappy by the latest release of Windows Vista, though. “So far I’m highly impressed by what Vista is trying to become. Some pooh-poohers are billing this as an evolutionary upgrade rather than a revolutionary one, but honestly, after looking at for a couple of weeks now I’ve got to say I’m leaning more toward revolutionary. This is a ground-up redesign, and it really shows,” Rist writes. Vista just may mark an OS revolution.

The news beat: Qwest says it will host Windows Live, becoming the first telecom provider in the U.S. to sign up. The so-called Net neutrality reform bill is up for debate in the U.S. House of Representatives as soon as today. And AOL users are up in arms over e-mail ads.

Quoteworthy: I’m the guy you’re afraid of. I was born in India, and in 2000, fresh out of college, I was working for an engineering services company in Pune — one that helped design and build manufacturing plants worldwide. The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of a U.S. company based in New York. — Confessions of an offshore developer.