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Windows Vista is an operating system developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, Tablet PCs, and media center PCs. Prior to its announcement on July 22, 2005, Windows Vista was known by its codename Longhorn. Development was completed on November 8, 2006; over the following three months it was released in stages to computer hardware and... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Windows Vista Windows Vista includes version 3.0 of the .NET Framework, which aims to make it significantly easier for software developers to write applications than with the traditional Windows API.

Features of Windows Vista Windows Vista includes the latest version of Internet Explorer, which adds support for tabbed browsing, Atom, RSS, internationalized domain names, a search box, a phishing filter, an anti-spoofing URL engine, fine-grained control over ActiveX add-ons, thumbnails of all open tabs in a single window (called Quick Tabs), page zoom, and tab groups.

Features of Windows Vista Windows Vista includes Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7, which has been refactored into a modular architecture, with integrated .NET extensibility.

Features of Windows Vista Windows Vista includes a new version of Direct3D, called Direct3D 10.

List of speech recognition software Windows Vista includes version 8.0 of the Microsoft speech recognition engine along with a completely new speech experience, known as Windows Speech Recognition.

Features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista includes the latest version of Internet Explorer, which adds support for tabbed browsing, Atom, RSS, internationalized domain names, a search box, a phishing filter, an anti-spoofing URL engine, fine-grained control over ActiveX add-ons, thumbnails of all open tabs in a single window (called Quick Tabs), page zoom, and tab groups.

Features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista includes Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7, which has been refactored into a modular architecture, with integrated .NET extensibility.

Features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista includes a new version of Direct3D, called Direct3D 10.

Solitaire Basic forms of Klondike solitaire and FreeCell come with every current installation of Microsoft Windows, for example, and Windows Me, Windows XP and Windows Vista also include a version of Spider.

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Features of Windows Vista Additionally, Windows Vista includes a range of parental controls, which give owners of a computer a set of tools to limit what other accounts on a computer can do, and an improved Windows Firewall which supports both inbound and outbound packet filtering, IPv6 connection filtering and more detailed configurable rules and policies.

Features new to Windows Vista Additionally, Windows Vista includes a range of parental controls, which give owners of a computer a set of tools to limit what other accounts on a computer can do, and an improved Windows Firewall which supports both inbound and outbound packet filtering, IPv6 connection filtering and more detailed configurable rules and policies.

Security and safety features new of Windows Vista Windows Vista includes a range of parental controls for non-domain user accounts.

Security and safety features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista includes a range of parental controls for non-domain user accounts.

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Screenshot Windows Vista includes a utility called Snipping Tool, first introduced in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.

Security and safety features new of Windows Vista Windows Vista includes Windows Defender, Microsoft's anti-spyware utility.

Security and safety features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista includes Windows Defender, Microsoft's anti-spyware utility.

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Technical features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista also includes a new Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS) that allows multimedia applications to register their time-critical processing to run at an elevated thread priority, thus ensuring prioritized access to CPU resources for time-sensitive DSP processing and mixing tasks.

Technical features of Windows Vista Windows Vista also includes a new Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS) that allows multimedia applications to register their time-critical processing to run at an elevated thread priority, thus ensuring prioritized access to CPU resources for time-sensitive DSP processing and mixing tasks.

Shatter attack To support this view, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include a Windows service called "Interactive Services Detection" that enables access to dialogs created by interactive services when they appear.

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Speech Application Programming Interface Windows Vista includes a number of new speech-related features including:

Management features of Windows Vista Windows Vista includes a number of self-diagnostic features which help identify various problems and, if possible, suggest corrective actions.

Management features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista includes a number of self-diagnostic features which help identify various problems and, if possible, suggest corrective actions.

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Comparison of Windows Vista and Windows XP Windows Vista also includes Windows Defender, a spyware scanning and removal tool that is also available for Windows XP for free.

Security and safety features new of Windows Vista Windows Vista includes Windows Defender, Microsoft's anti-spyware utility.

Security and safety features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista includes Windows Defender, Microsoft's anti-spyware utility.

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Technical features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista also includes the ability to use custom host-based digital signal processing effects as part of the audio device manufacturer-supplied driver's value-added features.

Technical features of Windows Vista Windows Vista also includes the ability to use custom host-based digital signal processing effects as part of the audio device manufacturer-supplied driver's value-added features.

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Technical features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista is the first Windows operating system to include fully integrated support for speech recognition.

Technical features of Windows Vista Windows Vista is the first Windows operating system to include fully integrated support for speech recognition.

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Management features of Windows Vista Windows Vista also includes Microsoft Management Console 3.0 (MMC), which includes several enhancements, including support for writing .NET snap-ins using Windows Forms and running multiple tasks in parallel.

Management features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista also includes Microsoft Management Console 3.0 (MMC), which includes several enhancements, including support for writing .NET snap-ins using Windows Forms and running multiple tasks in parallel.

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Management features of Windows Vista Windows Vista also includes Windows Remote Management (WinRM), which is Microsoft’s implementation of WS-Management standard which allows remote computers to be easily managed through a SOAP-based web service.

Management features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista also includes Windows Remote Management (WinRM), which is Microsoft’s implementation of WS-Management standard which allows remote computers to be easily managed through a SOAP-based web service.

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Technical features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista includes speech recognition for 8 languages at release time: English (U.S. and British), Spanish, German, French, Japanese and Chinese (traditional and simplified).

Technical features of Windows Vista Windows Vista includes speech recognition for 8 languages at release time: English (U.S. and British), Spanish, German, French, Japanese and Chinese (traditional and simplified).

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Technical features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista includes a redesigned print architecture, built around Windows Presentation Foundation.

Technical features of Windows Vista Windows Vista includes a redesigned print architecture, built around Windows Presentation Foundation.

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Microsoft Outlook Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) does not include an e-mail client, however, and Windows Vista (which includes IE7) replaces Outlook Express with Windows Mail.

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Windows Vista Windows Vista also does not include the Windows XP "Luna" visual theme, or most of the classic color schemes which have been part of Windows since the Windows 3.x era.

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Windows Vista Windows Vista includes six classic color schemes, comprised of four high-contrast color schemes and the default color schemes from Windows 98 and Windows 2000/Windows Me.

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Windows Vista Windows Vista includes a large number of new application programming interfaces.

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Speech Application Programming Interface Windows Vista includes Microsoft Anna which replaces Microsoft Sam.

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Windows Mobility Center Windows Vista includes the following tiles:

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Direct3D Windows Vista includes a major update to the Direct3D API.

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HyperACCESS Windows Vista does not include HyperTerminal, though the commercial products HyperTerminal Private Edition (latest version being 6.4) and HyperACCESS (latest version being 8.4) both support Vista.

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Features removed from Windows Vista Because of licensing restrictions, Windows Vista includes only an MP3 decoder, not an ACM encoder.

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Development of Microsoft Windows Windows Vista is the latest release of Microsoft Windows, and has hundreds of new features, including the grapical user interface Windows Aero, Windows Sidebar, Previous Versions, Windows SideShow, and many other features.

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Development of Microsoft Windows Windows Vista is the latest release of Microsoft Windows, and has hundreds of new features, including the grapical user interface Windows Aero, Windows Sidebar, Previous Versions, Windows SideShow, and many other features.

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Development of Microsoft Windows Windows Vista is the latest release of Microsoft Windows, and has hundreds of new features, including the grapical user interface Windows Aero, Windows Sidebar, Previous Versions, Windows SideShow, and many other features.

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Development of Microsoft Windows Windows Vista is the latest release of Microsoft Windows, and has hundreds of new features, including the grapical user interface Windows Aero, Windows Sidebar, Previous Versions, Windows SideShow, and many other features.

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Development of Microsoft Windows Windows Vista is the latest release of Microsoft Windows, and has hundreds of new features, including the grapical user interface Windows Aero, Windows Sidebar, Previous Versions, Windows SideShow, and many other features.

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Disk partitioning Windows XP and Windows Vista includes an inbuilt 'Disk Management' program which allows for the creation, deletion and movement of partitions.

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Windows Sidebar Windows Vista includes eleven Sidebar gadgets: Calendar, Clock, Contacts, CPU Meter, Currency conversion, RSS Feed Headlines, Notes, Picture Puzzle, Slide Show, Stocks, and Weather.

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Virtual DOS machine Recent versions of Windows NT for 64-bit architectures, including Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (x86-64), Windows XP 64-bit Edition (IA-64), Windows Server 2003 (x64) and Windows Vista (x64), no longer include the NTVDM; so they are unable to run 16-bit DOS or Windows applications.

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Development of Microsoft Windows Windows Vista is the latest release of Microsoft Windows, and has hundreds of new features, including the grapical user interface Windows Aero, Windows Sidebar, Previous Versions, Windows SideShow, and many other features.

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Comparison of Windows Vista and Windows XP Windows Vista also includes Windows Defender, a spyware scanning and removal tool that is also available for Windows XP for free.

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Windows Search Windows Vista also supports query composition, where a saved search (called a scope) can be nested within the query string of another search.

Features of Windows Vista Windows Vista also supports query composition, where a saved search (called a scope) can be nested within the query string of another search.

Features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista also supports query composition, where a saved search (called a scope) can be nested within the query string of another search.

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NTFS junction point Windows Vista supports a new symbolic link capability that replaces junction points in Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Management features of Windows Vista Windows Vista supports scripting and automation capabilities using Windows PowerShell, an object-oriented command-line shell, released by Microsoft, but not included with the operating system.

Management features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista supports scripting and automation capabilities using Windows PowerShell, an object-oriented command-line shell, released by Microsoft, but not included with the operating system.

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Features of Windows Vista Out-of-the-box, Windows Vista supports Microsoft Office documents and most audio and video files.

Features new to Windows Vista Out of the box, Windows Vista supports Microsoft Office documents and most audio files.

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Management features of Windows Vista Windows Vista supports scripting and automation capabilities using Windows PowerShell, an object-oriented command-line shell, released by Microsoft, but not included with the operating system.

Management features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista supports scripting and automation capabilities using Windows PowerShell, an object-oriented command-line shell, released by Microsoft, but not included with the operating system.

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Management features of Windows Vista Windows Vista supports Multiple Local Group Policy Objects which allows setting different levels of Local Group Policy for individual users.

Management features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista supports Multiple Local Group Policy Objects which allows setting different levels of Local Group Policy for individual users.

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Management features of Windows Vista Whereas Windows XP only supported loading drivers from floppy disks while the setup environment is initially loading, Windows Vista additionally supports loading drivers from USB and Firewire storage devices, and CDs and DVDs from within the main setup wizard.

Management features new to Windows Vista Whereas Windows XP only supported loading drivers from floppy disks while the setup environment is initially loading, Windows Vista additionally supports loading drivers from USB and Firewire storage devices, and CDs and DVDs from within the main setup wizard.

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Management features of Windows Vista Whereas Windows XP only supported loading drivers from floppy disks while the setup environment is initially loading, Windows Vista additionally supports loading drivers from USB and Firewire storage devices, and CDs and DVDs from within the main setup wizard.

Management features new to Windows Vista Whereas Windows XP only supported loading drivers from floppy disks while the setup environment is initially loading, Windows Vista additionally supports loading drivers from USB and Firewire storage devices, and CDs and DVDs from within the main setup wizard.

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Features of Windows Vista Out-of-the-box, Windows Vista supports Microsoft Office documents and most audio and video files.

Features new to Windows Vista Out of the box, Windows Vista supports Microsoft Office documents and most audio files.

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Features of Windows Vista Specifically, Windows Vista supports the MMC-5 commands, the driver commands for the AACS content protection scheme, as well as the UDF file system.

Features new to Windows Vista Specifically, Windows Vista supports the MMC-5 commands, the driver commands for the AACS content protection scheme, as well as the UDF file system.

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Symbolic link Windows Vista supports symbolic links for both files and directories with the command line utility mklink.

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Windows Driver Model Windows Vista supports both WDM and the newer Windows Driver Foundation.

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Windows Driver Model Windows Vista supports both WDM and the newer Windows Driver Foundation.

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Features removed from Windows Vista ACPI 2.0 or later is preferred, as Windows Vista's support of technologies like AMD's Cool'n'Quiet power-saving technology is disabled on ACPI 1.0 enabled motherboards.

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MS Sans Serif This font also contains most glyphs shipped with any version of Windows until Windows Vista, excluding fonts supporting East Asian ideographs.

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Windows Vista networking technologies Windows Vista also supports network cards with TCP Offload Engine, that have certain hardware-accelerated TCP/IP-related functionality.

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Liveproject LiveProject runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista supporting Microsoft Project 2000, 2003, and 2007 .mpp files.

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Shatter attack To support this view, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include a Windows service called "Interactive Services Detection" that enables access to dialogs created by interactive services when they appear.

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NTFS junction point Windows Vista supports a new symbolic link capability that replaces junction points in Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

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Windows Vista I/O technologies Windows Vista also supports "ghosting" of online files and folders, that is, when users make only a few files from a directory available offline, Windows Vista creates ghosted entries of the remaining items to preserve the online context.

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Windows Vista I/O technologies Windows Vista also supports "ghosting" of online files and folders, that is, when users make only a few files from a directory available offline, Windows Vista creates ghosted entries of the remaining items to preserve the online context.

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Group Policy Windows Vista supports Multiple Local Group Policy objects (MLGPO), which allows setting local group policy for individual users.

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Virtual folder Windows Vista also supported manual creation of custom virtual folders.

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Windows Vista Windows Vista supports additional forms of digital rights management protections.

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Windows Vista Windows Vista supports additional forms of digital rights management protections.

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Windows Management Instrumentation The WMI Driver Extensions, however, are not supported by Windows Vista and later operating systems.

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USB communications device class With a vendor-supplied INF file, Windows Vista supports USB CDC and USB WMCDC .

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USB communications device class With a vendor-supplied INF file, Windows Vista supports USB CDC and USB WMCDC .

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Technical features new to Windows Vista In IPv6 mode, Windows Vista can use the Link Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) protocol to resolve names of local hosts on a network which does not have a DNS server running.

Technical features of Windows Vista In IPv6 mode, Windows Vista can use the Link Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) protocol to resolve names of local hosts on a network which does not have a DNS server running.

Windows Vista networking technologies Windows Vista uses the LLTD protocol to graphically present how different devices are connected over a network, as a Network Map.

Windows Vista networking technologies In IPv6 mode, Windows Vista can use the Link Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) protocol, as described in RFC 4795, to resolve names of local hosts on a network which does not have a DNS server running.

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Technical features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista transparently makes use of the XPS print path for those printers that support it, otherwise using the GDI print path.

Technical features of Windows Vista Windows Vista transparently makes use of the XPS print path for those printers that support it, otherwise using the GDI print path.

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Features of Windows Vista Windows Vista uses the Windows Aero graphical user interface.

Features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista uses the Windows Aero graphical user interface.

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Management features of Windows Vista Windows Vista is deployed using a hardware-independent image, the Windows Imaging Format (WIM).

Management features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista is deployed using a hardware-independent image, the Windows Imaging Format (WIM).

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Management features of Windows Vista Windows Vista is deployed using a hardware-independent image, the Windows Imaging Format (WIM).

Management features new to Windows Vista Windows Vista is deployed using a hardware-independent image, the Windows Imaging Format (WIM).

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RealWorld Icon Editor The current version of the application supports Mac icons (.icns) and Windows icons (.ico), including PNG-compressed icons used by Windows Vista.

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ntfsresize ntfsresize is a free Unix utility that non-destructively resizes the NTFS filesystem used by Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows Vista on a harddisk partition.

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ntfsresize ntfsresize is a free Unix utility that non-destructively resizes the NTFS filesystem used by Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows Vista on a harddisk partition.

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Windows Vista I/O technologies By default the necessary files are loaded into main memory but Windows Vista can use alternate storage such as USB flash drives, thereby freeing up main memory.

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Adobe Type Manager Windows Vista can use Adobe Type 1 fonts natively, making add-ons like ATM unnecessary.

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Features removed from Windows Vista Windows Vista uses the strong host model for networking, instead of the weak host model used by all previous Windows versions.

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Microsoft Data Access Components Windows Vista will no longer use MDAC, but instead use Windows DAC, which consists of updated versions of ADO, OLE DB, and ODBC components.

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DirectX Video Acceleration DXVA 2.0, available only on Windows Vista and later OSs, integrates with Media Foundation (MF) and uses the Enhanced Video Renderer (EVR) present in MF.

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Task Scheduler Windows Vista uses Task Scheduler 2.0 to run various system-level tasks , as such, the Task Scheduler service cannot be disabled any more.

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Security and safety features new of Windows Vista Windows Vista uses Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) to load system files at random addresses in memory.

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Windows Vista networking technologies Windows Vista uses the NewReno algorithm which allows a sender to send more data while retrying in case it receives a partial acknowledgement, which is acknowledgement from the receiver for only a part of data that has been received.

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Windows Vista networking technologies Windows Vista uses its TCP Chimney Offload system to offload to such cards framing, routing, error-correction and acknowledgement and retransmission jobs required in TCP.

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Meiryo Since Meiryo only has Italic glyphs for Latin, Greek, Coptic, and Cyrillic characters, it is an indication that Windows Vista does not use emulated italic effects if it uses a substitute font for italic effect, but cannot find the correct glyph in the italic font.

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Microsoft Data Access Components Windows Vista will no longer use MDAC, but instead use Windows DAC, which consists of updated versions of ADO, OLE DB, and ODBC components.

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Channel 4 The services are limited to UK and Republic of Ireland viewers only, and the internet version is at present further limited to Windows XP (32 bit editions only) and Windows Vista, PC users only.

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Server Message Block Windows Vista and later operating systems use SMB 2.0 when communicating with other machines running Windows Vista or later.

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Comparison of Windows Vista and Windows XP However, it requires a higher-end video graphics card, DirectX 9 support and 32-bit color; otherwise, Windows Vista is displayed using "Windows Vista Basic" visual style.

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Comparison of Windows Vista and Windows XP However, it requires a higher-end video graphics card, DirectX 9 support and 32-bit color; otherwise, Windows Vista is displayed using "Windows Vista Basic" visual style.

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    Windows Vista

    Prior to its announcement on July 22, 2005, Windows Vista was known by its codename Longhorn. Development was completed on November 8, 2006; over the following three months it was released in stages to computer hardware and software manufacturers, business customers, and retail channels.
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    Development of Windows Vista

    Windows Vista Screen Shot Gallery – Screenshots of Windows Vista beta versions and development progress
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    Criticism of Windows Vista

    According to industry sources, as of late July 2008 Windows XP is still outselling Windows Vista, especially in business sales.
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    Features of Windows Vista

    Windows Vista features system-wide integrated search, called Instant Search (also known as Windows Search).
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    Windows Vista editions

    Windows Vista is available in six different marketing editions. All editions support both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) processor architectures, except for Windows Vista Starter, which supports only 32-bit architectures.
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    Features new to Windows Vista

    Windows Vista features system-wide integrated search, called Instant Search (also known as Windows Search).
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    Technical features new to Windows Vista

    Windows Vista can also make use of the NVRAM to increase the speed of booting and returning from hibernation.
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    Features removed from Windows Vista

    Only the version of Sound Recorder from the N editions of Windows Vista saves audio in WAV format by default.
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    Technical features of Windows Vista

    Windows Vista can also make use of the NVRAM to increase the speed of booting and returning from hibernation.
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    Security and safety features new to Windows Vista

    Computers running Windows Vista can be a part of logically isolated networks within an Active Directory domain.

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