Windows Vista introduces a breakthrough user experience. It's designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience.
Use Quick Search to quickly find the information you need.
The new Document Explorer makes working with your files a snap. Find your files more quickly with the new Live Icon feature, and see what they contain without having to open them.
Windows Aero™ provides spectacular visual effects such as glass-like interface elements that you can see through. See thumbnail views of the items in your taskbar by resting your mouse pointer on them.
Use Flip to view and navigate more easily through open windows. Use Flip 3D to navigate through open windows using the scroll wheel on your mouse.
Windows Vista at Home
Windows Vista delivers better personal productivity and digital entertainment on your PC through its improved reliability, security, and performance. Windows Vista helps you to accomplish tasks faster, with a rich new interface and new ways to organize and find the information stored on your PC.
When it comes to having fun, you can enjoy more entertainment with live and recorded TV on your PC. Windows Vista also gives you the ability to access all of your photos, music, movies, and recorded shows on other PCs throughout your home, and even through your Xbox 360.
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Windows Vista is engineered to be the most secure version of Windows yet. The new features help to give you the control and confidence you need to get the most out of your PC.
Windows Vista enhances the Internet Explorer experience. The upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7 not only adds important new security and privacy features, but makes everyday tasks easier through features such as tabbed browsing, inline search, and shrink-to-fit printing.
New Internet Explorer 7 features, like tabbed browsing and live previews, make it easier for you to get to the Web sites you want to visit.
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.
Windows Sidebar gives you quick access to gadgets like picture slide shows, Windows Media Player controls, or news headlines. You pick the gadgets you want to see in Windows Sidebar.
Windows Vista is designed to help make you more productive, with new features including Sleep, SuperFetch, Windows ReadyBoost™, and Hybrid Hard Drive. SuperFetch helps manage memory to get the most out of available RAM. Windows ReadyBoost technology helps boost performance without adding RAM. Windows Vista also takes advantage of Hybrid Hard Drive technology to help improve battery life, performance and reliability. With Windows Vista, your system is ready when you are.
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: Volume Shadow Copy, which was first introduced with the Windows Server product family and is now available for PCs.
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.
Check your connection status, see your network visually, or troubleshoot a connection problem in the Network Center.
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. With Speech Recognition in Windows Vista you can control your computer by voice whether dictating an e-mail or controlling applications.
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. Updated Remote Assistance makes it easier to get the help you need when you need it.
For more information about Windows Vista, visit www.microsoft.com/windowsvista.
Not all Windows Vista features are available for use on all Windows Vista Capable PCs. All Windows Vista Capable PCs will run the core experiences of Windows Vista. Some features in premium editions of Windows Vista require additional hardware. All upgrade requests must be received by 3/31/07. $9.95 upgrade fee may apply.
