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 Enterprise Windows Vista Ultimate

Microsoft delivered five different versions of the Windows Vista Operating System

Windows Vista Home Basic

Windows Vista Home Premium

Windows Vista Business

Windows Vista Enterprise

Windows Vista Ultimate

Features

Windows Aero (aka Aero Glass) E nergetic R eflective O pen 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. A uthentic

E nergetic

R eflective

O pen

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.

A uthentic

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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

Windows Flip and Windows Flip 3d

Live Taskbar Thumbnails

Arriving December 1, 2006