What is Windows Vista?
Windows Vista is a desktop operating system which replaces Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional. Windows Vista is significantly different from all previous Microsoft operating systems. Windows Vista offers a redesigned user interface, security and reliability enhancements and new management tools.
Windows Vista, formerly code-named Longhorn, is Microsoft’s next-generation operation system to replace Windows XP. What are the new features, compared with Windows XP? Microsoft offers a long grocery list of new capabilities that it says Vista will offer, but they are not in evidence in the beta 1 version, nor is there a radically different look and feel from Windows XP. The main difference is that icons and folders appear as translucent images that are prettier to look at when you use Windows Explorer to search documents. One new feature augments desktop search with a “Virtual Folder,” which stores information about documents, images or other file searches you’ve previously initiated. These stored searches automatically run each time you open the folder. Microsoft has promised to add the bulk of Vista’s new end-user features in the beta 2 version, but don’t necessarily expect a watershed jump in performance on the same level as Microsoft’s launch of Windows XP, or the company’s first
Windows Vista is the latest operating system from Microsoft ®, released in January 2007. Available in Windows Vista Home Basic edition, Windows Vista Home Premium edition, Windows Vista Business edition, Windows Vista Ultimate edition and Windows Vista Enterprise edition, Vista provides improved security features along with dramatic new graphics and easy-to-use features.
