The preferred edition of Windows for home desktop
and mobile PCs
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Windows Vista Home Premium is the operating system for homes with advanced
computer needs. It will help you use your laptop or desktop PC more effectively
as well as enable you to enjoy new, exciting digital entertainment experiences -
all with the benefit of added security and reliability.
It has a new user interface named Windows Aero, which is both
efficient and beautiful. This new interface makes it easier than ever before to
find your way around the operating system. It even makes it easier to accomplish
multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated
view of all of your open applications and documents. Additionally, Windows Vista
Home Premium helps you quickly find and organize large collections of documents,
pictures, movies, videos, and music. By integrating search throughout the
operating system, Windows Vista Home Premium helps you quickly find exactly what
you are looking for.
Vista Home Premium makes it easy to take your home computing experience with
you wherever you go. For example, Windows Vista Home Premium includes Tablet
PC technology that enables you to interact with your Tablet PC-compatible
computer with a digital pen or with your fingertip instead of having to use a
keyboard. Computers that include Windows Vista Home Premium and an auxiliary
Windows Slide Show display will also allow you to access key data even when your
computer is off. It is also easier than ever to share files between other PCs in
your household and to manage your laptop computer settings to more securely
connect to your favorite WiFi hotspot.
Improve every aspect of your digital entertainment experiences including
viewing and sharing photos, video, TV, movies, music, games, and more. For
example, Windows Vista Home Premium enables you to create your own DVDs and edit
your own high-definition movies. Most significantly, Windows Vista Home
Premium includes all of the Windows Media Center capabilities for turning your
PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center. Windows Media Center in
Windows Vista provides new ways for you to enjoy your music, photos, and DVD
movies. You can also use Windows Media Center to record and watch your favorite
TV shows (even HDTV) and to access new kinds of online entertainment content.
You will also be able to connect Windows Vista Home Premium to your Microsoft
Xbox 360 to extend your Media Center experience to multiple rooms in your home.
Product Highlights
Security - Windows Vista is engineered to be the most secure version
of Windows yet. The new features in Windows Vista help to give you the control
and confidence you need to get the most out of your PC.
Search and Organization - Windows Vista gives you more flexibility when you
search and organize your files. New controls, like the Quick Search box and
Enhanced Column Headers, make it simple for you to manage large amounts of
on-screen data in any way that you want.
Windows Internet Explorer 7 - Windows Vista enhances the Internet Explorer
experience. The upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7 not only adds important
new security and privacy features, but makes everyday tasks easier through
features such as tabbed browsing, inline search, and shrink-to-fit printing.
Sidebar and Gadgets - As you use your computer to access more information,
perform more tasks, and interact with more software applications, you
increasingly face information overload. You open a Web browser just to check the
weather, open an application to view your calendar, and open a calculator
program to simply add numbers. You need simple, specialized, and lightweight
mini-applications that put information and tasks at your fingertips - no matter
what you're doing. Windows Sidebar boosts your personal productivity by
providing instant access to gadgets—a wide variety of engaging, easy-to-use,
and customizable mini-applications that offer information at a glance and
provide easy access to frequently used tools.
Performance - Windows Vista is designed to help make you more productive,
with new features including Sleep, SuperFetch, External Memory Drive (EMD), and
Hybrid Hard Drive. SuperFetch helps manage memory to get the most out of
available RAM. EMD technology helps boost performance without adding RAM.
Windows Vista also takes advantage of Hybrid Hard Drive technology to help
improve battery life, performance, and reliability. With Windows
Windows Backup - Windows Vista provides valuable new innovations to help
ensure you never lose information that is important to you. Windows Vista offers
multiple layers of backup and restore protection from hardware failure, user
error, or other issues. These innovations include system restore enhancements, a
new feature called Windows Backup, and a related feature: Volume Shadow Copy,
which was first introduced with the Windows Server product family and is now
available for PCs.
Networking - Windows Vista includes new networking features that make your
network easier to set up, easier to use, and more secure and reliable. Connect
wirelessly to your company's network, share an Internet connection and printers,
copy files between computers, or enjoy your favorite entertainment around your
home. Whether at home, a small business, or a large enterprise, Windows Vista
makes connectivity easier so you can focus on what matters to you.
Windows SlideShow - If you use a laptop computer, you know that starting up
your laptop just to check a message or find an address or phone number isn't
always practical.
Speech Recognition - Speech Recognition in Windows Vista empowers you to
interact with your computer by voice. It allows you to significantly limit your
use of mouse and keyboard while maintaining or increasing productivity. You can
dictate documents and e-mail messages in mainstream applications, fill out forms
on the Web using voice commands, and seamlessly manage Windows Vista and
applications by saying what you see.
Help and Feedback - With a number of features to streamline problem
resolution, Windows Vista is designed to provide better self-help and improve
centralized tools for support professionals.
Windows Update - Windows Update helps to keep your computer up to date and
more secure by providing Microsoft Windows Vista software updates. You can
configure Windows Update to automatically download and install updates for you.
You can essentially “set it and forget it.” In Windows Vista, the
capabilities of Windows Update are extended beyond the features available in
Windows XP and make updating easier and less disruptive.
Sync Center - The new Windows Vista Sync Center gives you one place where
you can manage data synchronization in several scenarios: between multiple PCs,
between network servers and PCs, and with the devices you connect to your PC.
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