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  Why Vista Matters to Developers
Time: 09:44 EST/14:44 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Andre Da Costa

To some, Windows Vista is Microsoft's most secure operating system ever. To others, it's the most Mac-like. But from a developer standpoint, it's the first proving ground for Microsoft's new family of managed programming interfaces that have been under development for the past five years.

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