Monday, January 18, 2010

A Brief Overview of Windows Vista



The previous operating system of Microsoft, Windows Media Center Edition, was forecasted as one of the flop operating systems of the year. But, according to speculations, it has been observed that about 50% of the total desktop computers were shipped with this edition.

The operating system Windows Vista is an improvement of the previously used operating system Windows XP. This Windows XP announced its official release during the year 2004. Most of the corporations exercise on the Windows XP operating system.

The migration from Windows XP to Windows Vista is not a fast process. All the corporations who are trying to jump to Windows Vista are making their test for obtaining the best results to from their existing applications.

The characteristics that fetched Windows Vista’s detrimental success are listed below:
• Security Features
• Internet Explorer 7

Security Features

The security features that are included within the operating system comprises the facility of minimizing the rights for administration. When a user is making modifications of a program or when he is installing some programs then only the administrative features are used.

Internet Explorer 7

With the introduction of Mozilla Firefox, another Internet browser, ‘Internet Explorer’ almost lost its market. Then Microsoft officially announced the inception of ‘Internet Explorer 7’ which was targeted to the web browser Mozilla Firefox.

Considering all these characteristics smoothly update to Windows Vista from your Windows XP.

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