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Windows Vista just a 3D version of Windows XP

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No it is not!

But unfortunately this is the impression that a lot of people have. I understand where this impression is coming from, so let me explain. Many people have seen Vista demos. Unfortunately many of the demos focus completely on the new 3D user interface (Also known as Glass, or Aero). And often even when the demos show other features, all that is reported on in blogs and articles is the new 3D interface. But Vista is a lot more than just a new interface. In fact, a lot of existing video hardware will not even support the new 3D interface. Yet these machines will still benefit from upgrading to Vista.

So what does Vista offer then? Well you need to take a look to see what interests you. Some of my favorite features are the External Memory Devices, Hybrid Hard Drives, RSS Everywhere, Family safety settings, User account control, USB device control, Windows shared view, and presentation settings. But these are just a few, there are dozens of new features in Vista.

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  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2006
    Why should I buy Vista?

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    March 11, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2006
    Why should you buy Vista? Well it depends what is important to you. Vista is most attractive to users (which includes developers) and admins. Personally my favorite features are External memory devices, parental controls, hybrid hard drives, presentation settings, and so forth. Take a look at:
    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/
  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2006
    I agree it can be confusing. But if you are in MS Europe, there is a separate employee store. I order stuff all the time and have it shipped to Turkey. My son benefits as he has all kinds of Microsoft games at extreme employee discount. :)
  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2006
    NTFS definitely needs an "upgrade" or replacement. I think that WinFS will eventually lead to that, but that like most technologies a compatible version must appear first.
  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2007
    The biggest benefits for moving to Vista are better security, data protection and management.  
  • With Service Hardening, Windows services are locked down from doing abnormal activities in the file system, registry, network, or other resources.  
  • With BitLocker, full disk volume can be encrypted to provide assurance that sensitive data are protected from offline attacks.  
  • With Vista new Disk Imaging, the entire system can be clones independent of the hardware.  This can be used for easy backup or deployment. The only draw backup is that Vista requires very fast CPU, graphic card and a lot of RAM.  Otherwise you will not be very happy with the speed compare to Windows XP.