• The development of Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) began in May 2001, prior to the completion of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, and continued...
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    Windows Aero (a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open) is the design language introduced in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system...
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  • Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years...
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  • Windows Vista—a major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system—was available in six different product editions: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium...
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  • Windows XP and Windows Vista differ considerably in regards to their security architecture, networking technologies, management and administration, shell...
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  • Compared with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, features new to Windows Vista are numerous, covering most aspects of the operating system, including...
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  • 2009. It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearly three years earlier. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released...
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  • Windows XP, which is the next version of Windows NT after Windows 2000 and the successor to the consumer-oriented Windows Me, has been released in several...
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  • Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) is speech recognition developed by Microsoft for Windows Vista that enables voice commands to control the desktop user...
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  • Windows Server 2008, codenamed "Longhorn Server" (alternatives: "Windows Vista Server" or "Windows Server Vista"), is the seventh major version of the...
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  • Windows Desktop Gadgets (called Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista) is a discontinued widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets. Desktop Gadgets have been replaced...
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  • particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an...
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  • Windows Vista, an operating system released by Microsoft for consumers on January 30, 2007, has been widely criticized by reviewers and users. Due to...
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  • Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Windows "Longhorn") has many significant new features compared with previous Microsoft Windows versions, covering most...
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  • it ran better than Windows Vista. Windows 7 removed many applications, such as Windows Movie Maker, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Mail, instead requiring...
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  • Windows Vista contains many new features, a number of capabilities and certain programs that were a part of previous Windows versions up to Windows XP...
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  • Windows Ultimate Extras were optional features offered by Microsoft to users of the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista and are accessible via Windows Update...
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  • There are a number of security and safety features new to Windows Vista, most of which are not available in any prior Microsoft Windows operating system...
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  • with Windows Vista. (Windows Media Center SDK for Windows Vista ships separately.) DirectX SDK was merged into Windows SDK with the release of Windows 8...
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  • Windows DVD Maker is a discontinued DVD authoring application developed by Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista, available in the Home Premium and Ultimate...
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  • MinWin (category Windows NT architecture)
    form the basis of releases of Microsoft Windows starting with Windows Vista. The term was first used in 2003 to describe approximately 95% of the common components...
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  • with Windows 95 nearly 4 years later while the object-based file system would later be adopted as WinFS during the development of Windows Vista). According...
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  • for Windows Vista has been completely rewritten and is now image-based instead of being sector-based as previous versions of Windows were. The Windows Preinstallation...
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  • gonadotropes in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland Windows Longhorn, the original code name during the development of Windows Vista Lethbridge Hurricanes,...
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  • Purble Place (category Windows Vista)
    Microsoft to remake its inbuilt game suite for Windows Vista with an original children's title. Development took place under one year, complicated by requirements...
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  • SharePoint Workspace MSN Messenger Windows Live Messenger Windows Vista networking technologies "Windows Vista Beta 2 Windows Shared View Step by Step Guide"...
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  • Windows Vista introduced a number of new I/O functions to the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. They are intended to shorten the time taken...
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  • Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, with a more relaxed version also present in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8,...
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  • has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular)...
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  • Transactional NTFS (category Windows Vista)
    component introduced in Windows Vista and present in later versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that brings the concept of atomic transactions...
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