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