A look Inside Vista
Windows Vista introduces a breakthough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find and organize information and to control your computing experience. The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps steamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than how to access it.
The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently.
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Breakthrough Security
Windows Vista is engineered to be the most secure version of Windows yet.
The new features in Windows Vista help to give you the control and confidence
you need to get the most out of your PC. Windows Vista contains a number
of new security features that, taken together, are designed to make Windows
Vista-based PCs more secure and your online experiences safer. The improvements
are designed to help you have:
- A PC protected from viruses, worms, spyware, and other potentially unwanted
software
- A safer online experience for you and your family
- An understanding of when your PC is unsafe, and the control and guidance
to help improve your security
PowerfulSearch & Organization
Windows Vista gives you more flexibility when you search and organize your
files.
New controls, like the Instant Search box and Enhanced Column Headers, make
it simple for you to manage large amounts of on-screen data any way you
want. With Windows Vista, you no longer have to remember where you store
every file. Instead, to find a file, you need to only remember something
about it, such as a word contained within a document, the artist of a song,
or the date a picture was taken.
Powerful, integrated desktop search capabilities help you find just about
anything on your computer quickly, without having to search for it by browsing
through folders. For example, in the new Start Menu, it is as simple as
typing a word, a phrase, a property, or any part of a file name into the
embedded Instant Search box to instantly find the file that you want.
Enhanced and Enriched Windows Internet Explorer
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Windows
Vista enhances the Internet Explorer experience. The upcoming release of
Internet Explorer 7 not only adds important new security and privacy features,
but also makes everyday tasks easier through features such as tabbed browsing,
inline search, and shrink-to-fit printing. Internet Explorer 7 also provides
new tools to give you direct access to information you want, with built-in
support for web feeds known as Really Simple Syndication (RSS). RSS is a
technology you can use to have information sent to you, so you don’t have
to look for it. Through RSS subscriptions, you can automatically receive
feeds (lists) of headlines from Internet sites. Internet Explorer 7 discovers
these feeds on sites and allows you to preview and subscribe to them. Once
you subscribe, Internet Explorer 7 systematically consolidates headlines
from each feed into one list. This lets you quickly browse new information
from various sites without having to visit each site separately.
Windows
Sidebar and Gadgets
As you use your computer to access more information, perform more tasks,
and interact with more software applications, you increasingly face information
overload. You open a web browser just to check the weather, open an application
to view your calendar, and open a calculator program to simply add numbers.
You need simple, specialized, and lightweight mini-applications that put
information and tasks at your fingertips—no matter what you’re doing.
Windows Sidebar boosts your personal productivity by providing instant access
to gadgets—a wide variety of engaging, easy-to-use, and customizable
mini-applications that offer information at a glance and provide easy access
to frequently used tools.
Spectacular Performance
Windows Vista is designed to help make you more productive as you work with
your PC throughout the day with new features like Sleep, Windows SuperFetch,
Windows ReadyBoost, and Windows ReadyDrive.
Windows SuperFetch helps manage memory to get the most out of available
RAM while Windows ReadyBoost helps make PCs more responsive by using flash
memory devices (like USB thumb drives) to boost performance. Windows ReadyDrive
takes advantage of new hybrid hard disks—hard disks with integrated
flash memory—to help improve battery life, performance, and reliability.
With Windows Vista, your system is ready when you are.
Valuable
Backup Innovations
Windows Vista provides valuable new innovations to help ensure you never
lose information that is important to you. Windows Vista offers multiple
layers of backup and restore protection from hardware failure, user error,
or other issues. These innovations include system restore enhancements,
a new feature called Windows Backup, and a related feature: Previous Versions,
based on the Volume Shadow Copy technology which was first introduced with
the Windows Server product family. These features are presented in a single,
unified Windows Backup and Restore Center.
Enhanced
Networking Features
Windows Vista includes new networking features that make your network easier
to set up, easier to use, and more secure and reliable. Connect wirelessly
to your company’s network, share an Internet connection and printers, copy
files between computers, or enjoy your favorite entertainment around your
home. Whether at home, a small business, or a large enterprise, Windows
Vista makes connectivity easier so you can focus on what matters to you.
Windows Vista puts you in control of your network experience with the Network
Center—the central place for all your networking needs. Network Center
informs you about the network your computer is connected to and verifies
whether it can successfully reach the Internet. It even presents this information
in a summary in the Network Map so you can immediately see your connectivity
to the network and Internet. If a PC on the network loses Internet connectivity,
you can graphically see that the link is down, and then use Network Diagnostics
to help determine the cause of the problem and get a suggestion for a solution.
WindowsSideShow
If you use a laptop computer, you know that starting up your laptop just
to check a message or find an address or phone number isn’t always
practical. Windows Vista SideShow technology enables laptop manufacturers
to include a secondary or auxiliary display in future laptop designs.
This display can be used to easily view the critical information you need,
whether the laptop is on, off, or in sleep mode. The convenience provided
by these auxiliary displays will save time and battery life by allowing
you to quickly view meeting schedules, phone numbers, addresses, and recent
e-mail messages without having to start up your laptop.
Speech Recognition
Speech Recognition in Windows Vista empowers you to interact with your computer
by voice. It allows you to significantly limit your use of mouse and keyboard
while maintaining or increasing productivity. You can dictate documents
and e-mail messages in mainstream applications, fill out forms on the web
using voice commands, and seamlessly manage Windows Vista and applications
by saying what you see. Speech Recognition is fully integrated into Windows
Vista and is built on top of the latest Microsoft speech technologies. It
has unparalleled voice recognition accuracy that improves with use as it
adapts to your speaking style and vocabulary. Speech Recognition supports
multiple languages and includes a new human-sounding speech synthesizer.
Help and Feedback
With a number of features to streamline problem resolution, Windows Vista
is designed to provide better self-help and improve centralized tools for
support professionals.
Windows Vista itself detects, diagnoses, and helps you respond to common
problems. But when incidents that require support do occur, Windows Vista
provides centralized support tools and resources to quickly diagnose and
resolve issues.
Remote Assistance
With Remote Assistance, you can get help from a support professional or
other trusted user, even if that person is in a remote location. With your
permission, Remote Assistance allows a trusted helper to share control of
your computer and help you resolve issues. In Windows Vista, Remote Assistance
is greatly enhanced, featuring faster performance and the ability to assist
users whether they are at home, on the road, or at a remote location. Remote
Assistance is now a standalone application, providing markedly faster startup
and connectivity, and has been optimized to use less network bandwidth.
Windows Update
Windows Update helps to keep your computer up to date and more secure by
providing Microsoft Windows Vista software updates. You can configure Windows
Update to automatically download and install updates for you. You can essentially
“set it and forget it.” In Windows Vista, the capabilities of
Windows Update are extended beyond the features available in Windows XP
and make updating easier and less disruptive.
Vista at Home…
With Windows Vista, you’ll enter an astonishing new world of entertainment
possibilities in your home, with exciting new ways to preserve and enjoy
digital memories and music.
Experience Memories
Windows Vista lets you handle your digital memories in a truly intuitive
way. It’s the center for your digital memories, where you can import your
pictures, organize and find them, make basic corrections, and save them
to CD or DVD. It’s also your photo gallery, with a virtually endless number
of photo albums and a variety of ways to share pictures with your friends
and family.
With Windows Vista, your photos and the tools you need are all in one place.
Whether you’re working with photos or video, editing or e-mailing your pictures,
or putting together a slide show for your next party, you will have the
tools to get it done—and more—quickly and easily. With Windows
Vista you can import your camera to your computer, find your pictures easily
and share them with friends and family with e-mail, prints or even slideshows
on your TV.
Experience Music the Way You Want it To Be.
With Windows Vista, your entire music collection creates the soundtrack
to your life. Use Windows Media Player 11 to enjoy a seamless connection
to your portable devices, satisfy a new musical URGE, and keep your growing
digital music collection organized. Or really crank things up and change
the way you see and listen to your music by soaking it all in with Windows
Media Center in Windows Vista and your XBox 360 (Microsoft XBox 360 Gaming Console).
Windows Vista is digital music in a whole new way…yours.
Windows Vista Business was created to meet the computing needs of small
business owners like you. With tools that help you manage your IT needs,
you can focus on what’s truly important-maintaining and growing your business.
Experience Unique Data Backup and Security
Automatic data backup capabilities and powerful security features are just
a couple of the robust tools you’ll come to depend on so you can focus your
mind on business issues, not technology issues. Best of all, Windows Vista
Business doesn’t require any special technology expertise. Whether you’re
working on critical business applications, updating important customer information,
or migrating to a new PC, you’ll have peace of mind knowing that your data
is backed up and protected. Vista offers ingenious new ways to back up data
and restore files and setting. And it provides centralized security features
to help you manage, monitor and configure security-related preferences and
settings from a single location.
Experience Productive Sales & Marketing Tools
In business, the tools you use every day to support your sales and marketing
efforts are crucial. You have a lot to do—generate new business while
you keep your current business, maintain up-to-date sales information, keep
your essential records safe, build a tight connection with your customers
and partners, and handle a range of customer interactions—whenever
the need arises and no matter where you are.
Windows Vista Business helps you meet your sales and marketing goals by
helping you stay connected to your customers and partners and increases
your sales and marketing team’s productivity with an improved user
interface design that makes it easy for you to find what you need fast.
Additionally, Vista Business deploys the latest technologies to help keep
your data secure and your computers running smoothly. Windows Vista Business
provides the tools to help you work the way you want to, with more flexible
ways to access your information. Vista Business can keep you in tune with
your business and a step ahead of the competition.
I have beta tested for MS since December or 1997. Since that time I have seen 98/98SE/Me/XP and now Vista. 99% of the parts were bought from TigerDirect. I built this current pc in 2004 for Windows XP. I started beta testing in JUly of 2005. For most of that period-it did not install all of the drivers needed. Then about Febuary of this year(06) every thing started to install. Each build better than the previous.
Since RC1 I been almost exclusively using Vista and with RC2, I no longer run XP at all on this pc. I do Dual-Boot Vista X86/X64. Most of my 32 bit software installs and works with no problems.
Since I bought the AverMedia Ultra TV1500, I record tv movies-burn to dvd’s. I have yet to findany instablity in this OS.
From first install I can watch DVD movies with out any 3rd party software. I will buy Vista Home Premium when it is availible.
From the information I have heard about, Windows Vista is an expensive O/S that will only be slightly usable for the avid computer user. It has issues with its licensing EULA agreement and it will most likely not be worth the hassle. I plan on staying with XP for the time being and do NOT believe that this new O/S is worth all of the hype given to it.
Actually when I bought the full-version of Windows 95- it cost me $249 at KMART. I plan on buying Vista Home Premium which actually cost $10 less than I paid for win95 and this was 12 years ago.
Vista is the best windows offered yet and I have been into computers since the mid 80’s.
I and other beta testers have tried to change MS mind on the only one transfer. MS says that only about 5% to 10% of the people in the world build their own pc’s-they also say there are 400million pc’s with Windows XP-which by my calculations mean there are 10 to 20 million people that mess with bulding new pc’s. I’m hopping if enough people complain about it that MS will change their minds on this.
But even so I will buy at least one copy of Vista(it’s worth very penny).
Well MS did it. They recieved enough complaints that they changed the eula where those ofus that sometimes build new pc’s and transfer the os to those machines. Read yourself
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+backtracks+on+Vista+transfer+limits/2100-1016_3-6131900.html?tag=nefd.lede