A new magazine – now in a new format

To showcase a new technology called Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which is built into Windows Vista, we’ve teamed up with Microsoft and media experts Armadillo Systems to bring you a special electronic issue of Windows Vista Magazine. The e-magazine, which you can view in your browser, uses the same technology that the British Library’s Turning The Pages 2.0 project uses to bring the world’s most valuable books to life.

We’re delighted with the way the application turned out – unlike other electronic magazines, you can zoom into the pages without the text and images blurring, and you can even rotate the pages and drag the magazine round inside your browser window.

This is just one example of the power of WPF, but get ready to see a lot more – the 3D capabilities afforded by this technology are providing software developers with the opportunity to develop incredible new interfaces to even the simplest piece of software.

You can view the e-magazine at the link below. It’s best viewed with Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista and there may be a short wait while it loads in your browser for the first time. You can also view the application using Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP, but if you don’t yet have the .NET framework installed you’ll be prompted to download it.

View the Windows Vista Magazine Turning The Pages application

Many, many thanks to Richard Godfrey and Geoff Hughes at Microsoft, and Michael Stocking at Armadillo Systems for their help in creating this e-magazine. The electronic version of the magazine is hosted by our friends at Netcetera, one of Europe’s leading web hosting providers, with customers in over 60 countries. Netcetera provides complete solutions for web hosting, domain name registration, e-commerce, email, dedicated server hosting and server-based applications hosting (ASP). Find out more at netcetera.co.uk.