The development of Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) began in May 2001, prior to the release of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, and continued...

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...

Windows Vista—a major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system—was available in six different product editions: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium...

Windows Aero (a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open) is the design language introduced in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system...

was finally released as "Windows Server 2003". Windows Server 2003's codebase was reused for the development of Windows Vista under its codename, "Longhorn"...

Windows XP and Windows Vista differ considerably in regards to their security architecture, networking technologies, management and administration, shell...

Compared with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, features new to Windows Vista are numerous, covering most aspects of the operating system, including...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

27, 2008. Derived from Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 is the successor of Windows Server 2003 and the predecessor to Windows Server 2008 R2. It removed...

Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) is speech recognition developed by Microsoft for Windows Vista that enables voice commands to control the desktop user...

Windows Desktop Gadgets (called Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista) is a discontinued widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets. Desktop Gadgets have been replaced...

activation, Windows Vista has been the subject of a number of negative assessments by various groups. For security reasons, 64-bit versions of Windows Vista allow...

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)...

2009. It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearly three years earlier. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released...

Windows Ultimate Extras were optional features offered by Microsoft to users of the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista and are accessible via Windows Update...

also known as Trusted Windows) is a software architecture designed by Microsoft which claimed to provide users of the Windows operating system with better...

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...

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...

of prebuilt technologies, and is the replacement of NetShow technologies. The Windows Media SDK was replaced by Media Foundation when Windows Vista was...

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...

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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particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an...

component introduced in Windows Vista and present in later versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that brings the concept of atomic transactions...

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...

it ran better than Windows Vista. Windows 7 removed many applications, such as Windows Movie Maker, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Mail, instead requiring...

Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Windows "Longhorn") has many significant new features compared with previous Microsoft Windows versions, covering most...