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Technology Lifestyle VISTA vs. XP – a brief yet more detailed look
Technology Lifestyle VISTA vs. XP – a brief yet more detailed look | VISTA vs. XP – a brief yet more detailed look |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 30 November 2006 | |
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Page 2 of 2 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACEXP: Ridiculed as being the ‘Fischer Price’ version of the Windows 2000 interface, Windows XP was still a fresh update upon its release 5 years ago. Today, however, will still perfectly functional, it is starting to look a little long in the tooth, with Apple’s Mac OS X offering Vista like graphics for several years already. Featured Whitepaper
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Older laptops may not be able to support the full Aero graphics experience, and will default to a mode which looks similar but lacks most of the eye candy effects, such as the transparent windows and Flip 3D effect. A system wide desktop search engine is built-into Vista and is fully activated. Interestingly XP has a similar function but it was never explained properly, with most people very familiar with XP’s annoyingly slow search capabilities. Vista’s built-in search is fast, like Google’s Desktop Search, and is great to have already built-in. There’s also the ‘Sidebar’ which gives you access to downloadable mini programs and widgets to display images, the time, sports scores and other information at a glance, with lots of sidebar gadgets being written and on the way, especially so with the consumer launch on January 30th, 2007. PARENTAL CONTROLS XP: Without third party software, the parental controls in Windows XP were rather limited and really didn’t prevent children from visiting inappropriate sites on the Internet. VISTA: Excellent parental controls are built-into Vista, mirroring the powerful features that today’s third party software offers to parents today. Parents have control over the sites their children visit, and are able to see every site they visit or tried to visit. The software lets parents determine what times computer use is allowed, which games they play and software they run, and are able to track email messages and instant messages that their children send. NETWORKING XP: Unless you know what you’re doing, Microsoft’s ‘set up Wizard’ for wired and wireless networks could seemingly never be counted on to actually work, leading to many frustrations for people simply trying to network two or more computers together. VISTA: A great deal of concerted effort has gone into making Vista the easiest operating system to network with others, especially other Vista systems, so that anyone, even without massive computing experience, can easily set up a wired or wireless network. For Australians, the Vista launch starts quite literally in a few hours, with proceedings starting at 9.30am on Thursday the 30th of November. We’ll be bringing you updates from the launch, along with any surprises they unveil or that we uncover. With US coverage set to take place several hours later thanks to time zone differences, ITWire is the place to be for the latest Vista launch coverage! {moscomment} |
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