Kiosks seem to be everywhere these days. Whether you go to an airport and check in, get cash out of an ATM, or purchase groceries in an automated check-out line, kiosks are now an important part of everyday life. However, innovation with kiosks is far from over. With the release of Windows Vista, new technologies will be available to developers that will enable a new generation of retail kiosks. This paper will provide an overview of these new technologies and relate them to benefits that a developer will see for creating rich kiosk solutions. This paper will be the first of a series of papers to be released on kiosk development with Microsoft products and technologies. Future whitepapers and demonstration code will soon be available that will provide more detail on the concepts introduced in this document. This paper also deals primarily with the software development component of building kiosk solutions.