Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate

Microsoft Windows Vista is the first new operating system more than five years and the successor of Windows XP. However, it is not interesting, the sound of purchase. If you need urgently to buy a new PC (if your old is dead or you have to wait and wait until Vista is released), then by all means, there is nothing wrong with Windows Vista. But this is not a very useful feature in Windows Vista that cries, or the improvement of graphics (Aero) nor the improved system performance functions (true, our Windows XP is not falling down). As for the security of Microsoft's largest enhancements of Windows Vista are in the business or the 64-bit Edition, Home Edition users will not run. Windows Vista is not the Apple Mac OS X 10.4 killer hoped (or feared). There are also big names software written exclusively for Windows Vista - most software available today is compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista. But the vast Tie-Ins Microsoft.com and Live.com, and many, many traces in Internet Explorer 7 allows us to more desperate (and often best-of-breed) alternatives. Hard-core micro-soft, live and breathe within the MSN, Live.com, and Microsoft Desktop ecosystem is favorable to the introduction of Windows Vista, but also for the rest of us, agnostics product, Firefox, Google Desktop , Zone Alarm, Gmail, and Corel WordPerfect, Windows XP SP2 is sufficient, though, few Killer program assumes that we all upgrade to Windows Vista.

There are six editions of Windows Vista, we examine four. We do not install Windows Vista Enterprise (available only for customers volume licensing) and Windows Vista Starter (only outside the USA). Windows Vista Ultimate includes everything, and it leaves the best way to promote Microsoft. This is not a requirement of most people are excited about their shiny new PC or at the end after an upgrade of existing materials. Configuration and Installation
The interface of Windows Vista DVD disc includes a Windows Imaging (WIM) format of the code, so that if the Home Basic Edition or Ultimate Edition, the code the same, only the key to your open rate functions. This means that users who participate in the reduction of costs can be at any time (provided they have the equipment), with some additional code and securing a new product key online. But all functions - even if you paid for them - are subject to certain hardware configurations available to, if you do not have the graphics hardware, for example, never Aero graphic effects on the old Dell computer in your basement.

Hardware for Windows Vista should not be taken lightly. In a controversial positive Garner, Microsoft hundreds of bloggers (not CNET) free copies of Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft, not boxed copies, but the software giant a top-of-the-line Acer Ferrari laptops with the operating system is installed. In addition, Microsoft appears to recognize that the best performance is on top-of-the-line machines manufactured within the last year or so.

In other words, many people are still, for their most recent Windows XP SP2. This means that all your updated data and applications, importing directly into the new system. Most people see, Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Home Premium of their choice. Although Windows Vista is a backup of your previous operating system to install, it is always advisable to make a backup of your Windows XP system itself, just in case.

Instead of an update, we recommend a clean install. With a clean install, you have your Windows XP hard drive and install only the data and applications you want, works on Windows Vista. A clean install can be achieved by buying a new PC with Windows Vista is already installed, the existing partition of Windows XP on dual boot Windows Vista or a new hard drive of a machine existing Windows XP.

Our own facilities by 20 minutes to an hour, depending on the hardware in the system. It is also quite an automated process, the installer first copying the WIM image onto the new hard disk or partition, and then extended, as the image. Again, we have an uncomfortable on the set of time "EU Enlargement: 27%" as in previous builds, we waited between two and five minutes before the expansion. More than half of the installation and rebooted, the installation of Windows Vista.

When installing Windows Vista loads the driver for the installation image, but they are also additional drivers from a much larger database from Microsoft. This means that more and more towards an Internet connection, remote access users may find that the installation is complete, some drivers missing.

Once installed, Windows Vista first asks for your country or region, then time and money, and, finally, the desired keyboard layout. You can then choose a user name, an icon and a user password. Then select your desktop background and security policy settings: Automatic, install updates, or questions about me later. After checking the date and time of your computer, it is a message: "Please wait while Windows checks your computer's performance." Here, the types of Microsoft on your computer to five points on the scale, with the overall assessment, based on your system the lowest (in our case, it was for the video card).

Windows Vista includes new sounds of veteran musician Robert Fripp. In comparison with the famous start-up, the sounds of Windows XP, Windows Vista is easier, almost spritely. This seems to User Account Control and logging are also perkier than comparable security alerts in Windows XP.

New on the Windows Vista desktop is a Welcome Center contains links to questions like "How can you configure your printer? and "How can you connect to your ISP? There is also an area of sales of certain means, either by the manufacturer or special online offers from Microsoft, as Windows Live OneCare service. honestly we believe it is better for you, the Windows ecosystem for e-mail, Internet browser and security programs.

After closure of the Center, you see at right is a shaded sidebar populated with three example Gadgets (widgets for all others), small office applications, the content display RSS feeds. In a gadget, a slideshow of images from the sample in the library of pictures, time, finally, there is a gadget for RSS subscription. We downloaded and installed Firefox 2, Firefox is the default browser, and quickly a number of RSS subscriptions. Guess what? Windows Vista is not the gadget to our efforts on the standard MSN feeds from Microsoft. Microsoft says the default RSS feeds from a gadget to the memory of the RSS feeds in Windows Vista and Firefox is not yet adopted the API storage. Use Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox, select a place of conviviality gadget. With a click on the + sign before the sidebar, you see a group of widgets available, with a link on the Web to find even more. The gadgets are not in the sidebar, you can draw on the desktop. And the box itself can be disabled for a full view of office. An icon in the taskbar is again the sidebar at any time. What is the difference in recent

Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, refer to Windows Vista Ultimate, Extras are something that you in the Internet, nothing serious Ultimate Extras, wallpapers, screen savers, utilities adding oxygen, more games , media viewing and add members. . But we will not submit to such costs of such verification, but we are on some key functions (simply because we do not know what Microsoft is supplied).

Vista has 7 years of development, not because you must, but because the teams work together, to fix bugs and security problems in Microsoft Windows * XP (I'm sure that many bugs in Vista, but only time will tell us that), not everyone is ready for shipment in time, some features in the updates!

What do we know about her ...

WinFS (Windows File System No, Windows Future Storage) - Windows Future Storage (WinFS) with Vista, it was the first design, but Vista is too long for the shelves, Microsoft has had to fall because they are necessary to save on development, and, as always with Microsoft, is it the first place (forgive me, I can not, for my Linux fan position). Animated Desktop Support / Motion office, as its name suggests, this feature allows you to animation on the desktop, which I already InterVideo WinDVR 3, in fact, with this software, I can watch television Instead of wallpaper, but we're not off topic now, Vista should be able to play the animation in the background, I had hoped that this would be the video (WMV (Microsoft babe), MPEG, etc. ..) but I waited (POISON, XAML, Windows Media Photo (WDP) Anyway, the video memory of the case of pork (or read a disk drive of the pork intestine), as how video is used. We must wait and see about it. Where are the good old days "Active Desktop" (1998).

As already mentioned, Ultimate Edition does not function, is not here, where else (except for the very best that are not a problem), but the condition is that all functions in all other editions . Features
There are too many features of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition to create - seriously. But we feel that most of the big bells and whistles for customers enterprise level, do not use at home. After a large number of functions is not to be confused with actually significant value for all users across the board. We would have fewer features executed extremely well, not as a heterogeneous mixture of such and such, one-size-fits-all operating system. And for that we do not agree with Microsoft apparently arbitrary division of functions within each expenditure. Performance
After installing Windows Vista sentences of each system, the performance of your equipment, with the final result that the lowest individual result. It's convenient. For example, if you think everything is going a little slowly, you notice that your hard drive the lowest. Windows Vista is recommended, a hard disk or a faster hard drive more compatibility. Most of the time, but the video is the weak point for most users. He is also a Log Viewer to view, for example, a software installation on your system to break, and then remove the software can be your overall performance. Support
With the performance monitors, Microsoft help significantly. It is a static FAQ, but also links to Microsoft online and allows other contacts, or on a forum or direct PC to PC using. From what we have really a feature of some, not all the problems you automate the solution by using a script. This method does not teach how to do in the future, but they respond to the task at hand. For example, if you choose to update a device driver, Windows Vista mark the dark room and open the Start menu, Control Panel and Device Manager, then pause to ask you what the camera you want to update. It's like a technician to your office if you walk the process. There is a growing dependence of the user-generated forum, which leads us to believe that Microsoft is shying away from its own technical support. Press time, Microsoft has released the final was not available.

Conclusion
Maybe we are spoiled, but after more than five years of development, there is a "Is that all?" Sense of Windows Vista. Buffles, like an information in a book report in the night against to be sure, many functions in the operating system, but the real value lies in implementation - the user experience (or experience) of them - and that information dump, we got to shake his head, disappointed. Compared with Mac OS X 10.4, Windows Vista, clumsy and feels very intuitive, almost as if it remains in DOS (or at least the internal logic of the DOS ). Despite the shooting of the entire system, built-in Find and several attempts at a solution in the vicinity of staidly old directory trees, you need more information on a level, access looking for. And there are too many dependencies on Microsoft products, it is not very objective operating system, preferably more and more about Microsoft products (a lot) from MSN Search to RSS feeds from d ' Internet Explorer. But Windows Vista is a bad operating system? No, it's just a disappointment for PC users, who hope that Microsoft would be something really exciting, there is, finally, LeapFrog Apple. No. But stick around, it is only for Windows Vista 1.0. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is on something before the end of the year. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 promises to solve what is known incorrectly in Windows Vista and a number of reasons to change concrete.

The good:
Windows Vista Ultimate includes the improvement of some features in Windows XP, less downtime of Windows XP, Windows Vista offers better built-in support options.

The bad:
Windows Vista Ultimate not search on the desktop (it's buried within applications, within the Start menu), optimized for Microsoft Windows ecosystem (for example, RSS feeds from Internet Explorer 7, the preferential treatment) It is easy and can not be properly implemented, no new software written for Windows Vista, and there are too many editions of Windows Vista.

The Bottom Line:
Windows Vista is essentially heater over Windows XP. If you are happy with Windows XP SP2, we see no compelling reason to upgrade. On the other hand, if a new computer, Windows Vista is stable enough for everyday use.

Specifications: Number of licenses: 1 PC License Type: Complete package; minutes drive: 40 GB;