The changes made to explorer are tremedous in their advantages, you don't
have to be opening dialogs, its right there in front of you, features like
Preview Pane, Explorer Favorite links (improved in 5365), bread crumb menus
which makes it easier to navigate through folders. The built in search which
makes it way easier to find a file. In XP it could have taken forever to
find a file using the old search technology. Now with the new fast search
technology, its a few seconds.
More secure, UAP (still a work in progress) is really a needed feature in
Windows, people need to be protected from themselves, especially with the
continuous barrage of malicious data on the net, UAP prevents you from
installing mistakes on your computer that is commonly happening on XP and
prior versions of Windows. Internet Explorer Protected Mode makes your web
browsing experience safer, AntiPhishing sites can't easily fool you, you
can't easily get infected with Malware because AntiMalware protection is
built right in, plus its part of the OS with Windows Defender. Internet
Explorer is easier to use, features such as TABs, Tab Gallery, subscribing
to your favorite websites are built right in.
Built in collaboration makes it easier to connect up to other people in a
ad-hoc way, you are able to share data easily and more securely. Connecting
to devices is easier, plug it in and it works, (still a work in progress,
but its getting) there. Things importing and managing your photographs,
finding things to do with them, whether its tagging for easier finding,
making a DVD, viewing a slide. Features like burning a DVD, backing up data,
its easy and its built, its still rough around edges, but its getting there,
XP was rough around the edges during this stage of development. But just
knowing its in there, giving you a better more complete out of the box
experience is what really makes Vista really compelling for me personally.
Things like managing your music is way cool in Vista, the new Album preview
feature with the built in search capabilities makes listening to your music
a great experience. Managing e-mail is easier, searching through tonnes of
e-mail again is easier because of the new built in search capabilities,
finding helpful answers in newsgroups is easier because of built in
community feature. AntiPhishing is built in which makes it a safer
experience, new spam filter filter makes cleaning your inbox a rear
occasion, migrating your mail box is easier because of the new Mail store.
Vista will be easier to deploy, this is still a work in progress, but trust
me, its getting there, and I am sure by RTM we will be surprised and say we
were wrong. The new end to end experiences that are being built will surely
make us think so, deploying in multilingual environments or sites will be
easier for companies, BitLocker, Virtual PC Express, Unix Subsystem, (Tablet
PC, 64-Bit, Media Center) bringing it mainstream and opening peoples eyes to
the possibilities of these awesome features. Features like Sidebar, which is
about presenting bits of real time information to people when they need it.
I have not even tapped into the Developer opportunities, to build richer,
more compelling, connected, easier applications with tools such as Windows
Presentation and Communication Foundation. There is so much in Vista, and
last but not least, the clean user interface that is presented through
Windows Aero. I think Glass is sexy stuff, it still needs work especially
things like the ability to differenciate Inactive and Active windows, but I
am sure those are being worked on. There is so much I could post but I am
tired. But I just want to say look at the opportunities, and stop looking at
the temporary issues that will be fixed as development progresses towards
RTM.
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