Windows Vista
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Transcript of Windows Vista
Microsoft Vista
Windows
Vista
Ankit Saxena
What is Microsoft Vista?
XP - Vista - Vienna
Versions Microsoft delivered five different versions of the
Windows Vista Operating System
Windows Vista Home Basic Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Business Windows Vista EnterpriseWindows Vista Ultimate
Features
Windows Aero (aka Aero Glass)
Energetic
Reflective
Open
►Righteous eye candy: high-end graphics effects.
► The touted Aero Glass interface .
►Visually engaging 3D rendering, animation, and transparencies. Translucent icons, program windows, and other elements.
Authentic
Aero - Hover Effect►Hover your cursor over minimized programs that rest on the taskbar and you'll be able to see real-time previews of what's running in each window without opening them full-screen.
Aero-Glass
Aero Glass is built on the new Desktop Compositing Engine, adding support for 3D graphics, translucency, animation and other visual effects.
Explorer – Folders – Preview of Files
Security Bidirectional Firewall Windows Service Hardening Full Disk encryption User Account Protection – Limits the
access to malwares
Network
IPv6 built directly into Vista Robust Focus on Security New Algos – improve throughput
when packets are lost Visual map of your network layout Network Centre
Network Centre
Internet Explorer 7 Tabbed
browsing Better Privacy
management Color coded
address bar Antiphishing
features Protected Mode
Desktop Search Integrates Desktop
search into the OS Powerful Indexing User-assignable
meta-data Searches network
computers
More Media
Media Player 11 Windows Photo
Gallery -Organize
photos; -Apply
Metatags, titles, and ratings;
- Light editing - Printing DVD Maker
Online Music Store - URGE
Movie Maker
Peer-to-Peer Collaboration
Windows collaboration module
Form Workgroups Jointly work Pass messages Give “handouts”
Quick Setup
A re-engineered install routine
XImage - A file-based disk imaging technology
Vista installs in about 15 minutes rather than the 40 minutes taken by the current file-by-file copying method
Ready Boost
Plug in a spare USB memory stick and use it to increase the available memory for Windows Vista
Other Features
Support for RAW image file format File Virtualization Native, embedded RSS support, with
developer API. File encryption support superior to
that available in Windows XP SuperFetch Hybrid Hard Drive
Speech Recognition
Windows Sidebar
Other Features (contd…)
Windows Sideshow
SET Factors
Everyone is connected - need for Security
Cheaper memory Better Graphics Card Better Usability Requirements Increase in the number of non-geeks as
Computer users Media becoming an important element
User Experience
Windows Flip and Windows Flip 3d
Live Taskbar Thumbnails
Arriving December 1, 2006