If I need other Vista boxes for testing, I'll set them up as I need them. The rest of my Windows hardware will shortly revert to pristine Windows XP installations. Windows XP is a mature operating system that's not trying to be something that it's not. The user experience is better than Vista's.
I hope to test a later release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, but based on my hands-on use of the first widely distributed beta code and performance testing also conducted by Devil Mountain Software, Vista SP1 is no faster than the original shipping version of the OS. I've been using XP for more than six years, and I'd be perfectly happy to continue using it for another six if Microsoft continued to support it properly.
Until they build something better than Windows XP, I see no reason to switch. As it is packaged today, Windows Vista is not that OS. Microsoft needs to release a new version of Vista that doesn't stratify the features why does CD and DVD burning happen only on the Home versions of the OS, for example? It needs to unload some of the crap it padded Vista with.
Enterprises aren't buying Vista because it offers very little advantage for them, and end users aren't clamoring for it. Of all companies, Microsoft should know that end-user desire for an OS has a huge effect on how rapidly it's adopted. The company seems to have forgotten its roots. I have no doubt that Microsoft could turn Vista around if it wanted to. But it would have to own up to the idea that, with its Vista product and business strategy, it's been wrong-headed in a number of ways.
I'm not so sure that the current management, as Bill Gates continues to edge toward the door, has the technical vision to make the right choices. First it admitted that the WGA breakdown last August that caused thousands of Vista users to wind up being pegged as software pirates when they couldn't activate their copies of Vista was, in fact, an " outage. One day buying a bit edition of Vista may be the best option, but for non-developers that day will not be in early The consensus of opinion in the spring of was that manufacturers had not produced sufficient bit drivers and software applications to risk installing any of the bit editions of Vista.
In which case, your supplier has probably contacted you about upgrading to Windows Vista Enterprise under the Volume License agreement. Ordinary people cannot get hold of Vista Enterprise thus you can cross this edition off your short list; opt for Vista Business edition instead.
In addition, you have to be a member of one of emerging markets to get a copy of this Starter Vista edition.
When you launch this tool it analyzes a users effective NTFS permissions for a specific file or folder, and takes into account network share access, then displays the results in a nifty desktop dashboard! The Starter version, as its name implies, does not come in a bit edition. Thus depending on how you count, Microsoft has produced six editions of Vista, or eleven if you count the five bit editions separately.
Because of legal wrangling over Vista in Europe and Korea, Microsoft produced at least two extra beta versions, these were denoted by the N for example: Windows Vista Business N.
My information is that as of January , the N version has been abandoned, all countries will have the same 6 Editions. One indirect reference in this Oct 13th press release indicated that there was now no problem with Windows Media Center either in Europe or in Korea. Windows Vista Ultimate ………. I would not have predicted so many people would have bought the Vista Ultimate Edition. Microsoft has made a good choice of name for their flagship version of Vista — Ultimate.
I think of the Ultimate edition as a direct successor to XP Professional. As the name implies, Ultimate combines all the features found in the home Premium with those found in the Business enterprise.
See much more about the Vista Ultimate Edition. The Business Enterprise version also has Unix and multi language support. There are two major new user interface components for device management in Windows 7, "Devices and Printers" and "Device Stage". Both of these are integrated with Windows Explorer, and together provide a simplified view of what devices are connected to the computer, and what capabilities they support. Devices and Printers is a new Control Panel interface that is directly accessible from the Start menu.
Unlike the Device Manager Control Panel applet, which is still present, the icons shown on the Devices and Printers screen is limited to components of the system that a non-expert user will recognize as plug-in devices. For example, an external monitor connected to the system will be displayed as a device, but the internal monitor on a laptop will not. This new Control Panel applet also replaces the "Printers" window in Windows Vista; common printer operations such as setting the default printer, installing or removing printers, and configuring properties such as paper size are done through this control panel.
Device Stage provides a centralized location for an externally-connected multi-function device to present its functionality to the user. When a device such as a portable music player is connected to the system, the device appears as an icon on the task bar, as well as in Windows Explorer. Opening the icon presents a window that displays actions relevant to that device.
Device status information such as free memory and battery life can also be shown. An overview of the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7, including a virtual piano program, a mapping and directions program and a touch-aware version of Paint, was demonstrated at the All Things Digital Conference on May 27, A video demonstrating the multi-touch capabilities was later made available on the web.
In order to take advantage of the capabilities and unique performance characteristics of solid-state drives, Windows 7 will turn off Windows Disk Defragmenter, and will make use of the new SSD TRIM command to physically erase logically deleted data more aggressively.
Furthermore, an installed version of Windows 7 can be booted and run from a VHD drive, even on non-virtual hardware, thereby providing a new way to multi boot Windows. The default disk partitioning structure in Windows 7 is to create two partitions: the first for booting, Bitlocker and running the Windows Recovery Environment and second to install the operating system. Windows 7 has also seen improvements to the Safely Remove Hardware menu, including the ability to eject just one camera card at the same time from a single hub and retain the ports for future use without reboot; and removable media is now also listed under its label, rather than just its drive letter like it was in Windows Vista.
BitLocker brings encryption support to removable disks such as USB drives.
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