The more ambitious plan of including a whole new file system was scrapped early on; instead, Windows Vista relies on metatags, which are keywords linked to files to make them searchable. With metatags, you can create virtual file folders based on a variety of search terms.
Say you're doing a report on mountains, any file that is keyword-enabled to include "mountains" will be grouped into a virtual folder without physically dragging that file to a new location. The downside is that older files say you upgraded your system from Windows XP or imported data from an earlier version of Windows will have to be retroactively metataged in order to be searched.
Also different is the file path displayed within Windows Explorer. Gone are the backslashes, replaced with arrows that offer drop-down menus of alternative folders. We liked this efficient feature.
Finally, there's a compatibility wizard buried deep within Windows Vista. Most Windows XP applications we loaded performed just fine. Should you need to run an older application, say from Windows 95, the compatibility wizard allows you to tweak the display resolution and emulate Windows 95 for that program.
For example, we were able to run a Windows optimized game demo on our Windows Vista test system. Features There are too many individual features within Windows Vista Ultimate Edition to call out--seriously. However, our gut feeling is that most of the significant bells and whistles are designed for the Enterprise-level customers, not the home user. Having a large number of features should not be confused with actually providing significant value to all users across the board.
We would have preferred fewer features executed extremely well rather than an uneven mix of this and that, a one-size-fits-all operating system. And we disagree with Microsoft's seemingly arbitrary division of features within individual editions. Despite many feature changes within Windows Vista, Microsoft has held onto its original marketing promise of providing users with Clear, Confident, and Connected solutions.
For Clear, Microsoft cites its new Aero graphics. Aero is part of the Windows Presentation Foundation, a subgroup of the. Net Foundation Framework, an underlying foundation for developers to build new applications. One applet is the New York Times Times Reader , the first of many products written exclusively for Windows Vista but hardly a compelling reason by itself to upgrade.
Though video playback and, yes, even the tiny icons on Windows Vista are now crisp and colorful with Aero, unless you watch YouTube videos all day, you won't really need Aero, nor will you miss the tiny preview windows enabled on your desktop display. Net 3 Framework Foundation and the Internet Explorer 7 browser. For Confident, Microsoft touts new security enhancements within Windows Vista.
You shouldn't encounter User Account Control UAC except when changing system configurations or installing new software, and even then, wouldn't you--in this age of downloadable spyware--prefer to know when an executable file is about to run? While UAC notifies you of pending system changes, it doesn't always require a password.
Microsoft's more controversial method to lock down the system kernel, PatchGuard, is only available in the bit editions of Windows Vista; most home users will not run these editions. Another celebrated security feature works only within Windows Mail, which most people are unlikely to use.
And finally, the jury is still out on whether Internet Explorer 7 is more secure than, say, Firefox 2. Windows Vista also includes a built-in but limited two-way firewall and free Windows Defender antispyware, which ranked poor in competitive testing done by Download. Long hours at times and decent pay and benefits for the workload.
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Vista is no different here, but how much of an upgrade are you going to need? But before you click your heels with glee and run off to place a pre-order for Vista Home Premium, hold on. The key thing to pay attention to here is the memory requirement. Since so much in the Vista upgrade is focused on the visual experience, your display hardware is going to need to be up to spec too.
Fortunately, hardware compatibility would seem to be much less of a potential issue. Inevitably, for users with obscure items of hardware from small manufacturers, compatibility i. Of course this is assuming you plan on installing and running the bit version of Vista. For those with bit processors planning to upgrade to Vista bit, the situation is more problematic.
And anyone who thinks they might need to run legacy bit software should clearly stick with bit Vista. Second, with Vista bit you will not be able to install drivers that are not properly signed. Unfortunately this requirement means bit drivers, which are already thin on the ground, are even less likely to be developed.
Not enough to make bit Windows a viable choice for the masses just yet, anyway. Software compatibility is generally excellent, but again there are, inevitably, some caveats. Probably one of the biggest factors that will drive sales of Vista over the coming months is not the way it looks, its extra security features or even its new applications and tools. It is games. With Vista the next generation of DirectX arrives — version 10 — and this time it will not be backwards compatible with earlier versions.
What does this mean? No ifs, no buts. Earlier games written for DirectX 9. For businesses Microsoft has two principal options — Business and Enterprise — both of which omit the main home entertainment elements such as Media Center, Movie Maker and DVD Maker from the mix making them less appropriate for home use. If you are going to put yourself through the hassle and bother of upgrading your operating system, you might as well get as much of an upgrade as you can for your money, and that means plumping for either Home Premium or Ultimate.
Which of these two to choose is a more difficult question to answer. For my money, Home Premium offers the best balance between features and price. Ultimate has every home and business feature all in one package. But of the features it does add over Home Premium, most are the sort you are not likely to miss. The most significant are Bitlocker — whole drive and file encryption in conjunction with a TPM chip, the Windows fax software, remote desktop and the shadow file feature mentioned in the section on security above.
Frankly, you might as well go and buy a new PC with Vista already installed on it. Neither would I advise buying the cheaper upgrade package. For anyone into gaming the answer is straightforward. For the rest of us, the question of whether to upgrade or not is more tricky.
With the move from Windows 98, the choice was more obvious — XP was a world away in terms of stability and for that reason alone it was worth making the move as soon as was humanly possible.
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