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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
 Powerful
Search & 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 7
 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.
 Windows
SideShow
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.
Windows Vista is digital music in a
whole new way…yours.
Vista For Business…
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. |
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