REDMOND, Wash. — April 19, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Windows® Embedded for Point of Service (POS) 1.1 Update. The new version includes support for the latest industry standards, a streamlined ability to install mass storage devices during setup, and expanded language support that now totals 33 languages, including Traditional Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Thai. Microsoft also announced the availability of the next version of POS for .NET 1.11, with support for new device classes that include biometrics, electronic journal, bill acceptor and image scanner. POS for .NET supports the UnifiedPOS version 1.11 specification, including standard changes for ClearInput, Smart Card and printer base classes. Read More . . .

Announcing Response Point in SBSummit and before that Office Communicator and Office Communicator Server integrating with Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office is far more than a threat to the vendors I guess. But for enterprise usage, I still go for Cisco based solutions integrated somehow with Office Communicator on the gateways for using Presence and Exchange...
VoIP Supply's notes on the topic.

Microsoft's approach toward Web Services specially SaaS basing a powerful Data Center for infrastructure from ZDNet.

WPF/E is now named as Silverlight, the next generation of Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) for web.

Find out more about the latest Enterprise Library from Tom Hollander.

If you are looking for more in Vista, you might take a look at Windows Vista Resource Kit.