Sunday, May 13, 2007

Tech Tip 123: Introducing…Windows Vista – Part I

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Are you ready for a brand new day?  You may have heard it, seen it fleetingly in neighborhood electronic shops, and it didn’t make big headlines like the debut of the Macintosh during Super Bowl Sunday or become the “End of the World as We Know It.”  The “it” here is Microsoft’s successor to its hugely popular Windows XP operating system, Windows Vista. 

Vista was finally released to the public on January 30, 2007, five and a half years in the making.  The positives:  Vista drastically improves upon security (sometimes to the point of annoyance) and sports a more intuitive look and feel.  The negatives:  As in any release of the Windows OS, you need to have relatively new hardware to run it, and running it on the “minimum” specification won’t get you anywhere but frustrated.

Of course, as was common in their XP software, there are multiple versions of Vista and not all versions come with the same features.  All in all, it’s a worthy successor to its siblings, moving Windows closer to “Mac-like” proportions. 

We present a rundown of Vista’s features below.

Read Full Article Here: Tech Tip 123: Introducing…Windows Vista – Part I

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