Whistler Build 2416 No sooner had I finished my review of 2410 when a new build--2416--mysteriously appeared in Redmond. Find out more!

I had expected to write more about the Beta 1 release of Whistler, the next version of Windows, but with Beta 2 bearing down on us in the next 30 to 60 days, Microsoft released an interim build that shows off a bunch of new features not found in Beta 1. So I thought I'd look at the desktop versions of this build instead (Server hasn't progressed enough by this point to be interesting). Whistler build 2410 continues the simplification work from previous betas and begins to flesh out the final feature set with the inclusion of Internet Explorer 6.0, Outlook Express 6.0, Windows Movie Maker 1.1 (Personal and Professional only), Windows Media Player 8.0, MSN Explorer 1.1 (Personal and Professional only), and Internet Information Services 5.1 (Professional and Server editions only). Conspicuous in this release are some cool new high-color icons, some minor changes to the simplified Start Menu (previously called the Start Panel), a new sample UI skin, and a bunch of other small tweaks and fixes. Let's take a look.