Windows Vista has arrived!
We live in an age where nearly everything is digital—the documents you create, the photos you take, and the music and videos that you enjoy on your PC. Even your daily correspondence with others through e-mail, faxes, and voice mail is digital. Your life is connected to the digital files stored on your PC.
Windows Vista introduces breakthrough computing experiences that are both visually exciting and intuitively designed, and will positively change the ways in which you use your PC. With the new desktop experience, you can more efficiently organize and find your information. You can "see" your files and applications in a way that makes sense to you so you can confidently focus on what you want to accomplish.
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Requirements to run Vista
A Windows Vista Capable PC must meet the following requirements:
- A modern CPU
This ensures necessary processing power for Windows Vista in common usage scenarios
- 512MB or more of System Memory (RAM)
This is to make sure PC systems have the necessary amount of memory required for acceptable system performance under common usage scenarios
- A DirectX 9 class Graphics Processor Unit (GPU)
In addition, a Windows Vista Premium Ready PC will provide an even better Windows Vista experience and requires advanced or additional hardware. The "Windows Vista Premium Ready" designation is given to a Windows Vista Capable PC that also meets the minimum recommended requirements for Home Premium, Ultimate, Business or Enterprise edition of Windows Vista. A Windows Vista Premium Ready PC includes at least:
- 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 GB of system memory
- A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero
- 128 MB of graphics memory
- 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space
- DVD-ROM drive
- Audio output capability
- Internet access capability
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For Home
Windows Vista delivers better personal productivity and digital entertainment on your PC through its improved reliability, security, and performance. Windows Vista helps you to accomplish tasks faster, with a rich new interface and new ways to organize and find the information stored on your PC.
When it comes to having fun, you can enjoy more entertainment with live and recorded TV on your PC. Windows Vista also gives you the ability to access all of your photos, music, movies, and recorded shows on other PCs throughout your home, and even through your Xbox 360.
For Business
Windows Vista is designed for businesses of all sizes and across all industries. Focused on helping you achieve cost and operational efficiencies in desktop image deployment, management, and security, Windows Vista will make a difference in any business setting.
Windows Vista also helps PC users to be more effective in their work by offering improved connectivity with advanced integration across technologies, networks, and systems, as well as providing them with quick access to better organized information.
Your company's most valuable resource is its people. People garner insights and make decisions—they close deals, invent new products, and find new efficiencies. They work together to overcome your business challenges. And they use technology to make the most of their talents and abilities.
Windows Vista introduces powerful new technologies that will help your people do their best work. It will help them collaborate and communicate more effectively—easily connecting them to corporate resources, to the Internet, and to each other—regardless of their locations. It will also help your business lower costs, improve security, and comply with regulatory requirements.
The Editions
Microsoft Windows Vista is designed to dramatically improve the computing experience of every kind of PC user—from people at home who use their PCs for simple web browsing, to business people who must organize and act on large volumes of data, to scientists who routinely perform complex mathematical analysis. To make sure that everyone has an offering tailored to meet their specific needs, Microsoft will deliver five different editions of Windows Vista. Each edition is focused on the needs of a specific type of person.
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Most secure Windows ever
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Quickly find what you need
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Elegant Windows Aero desktop experience
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Best choice for laptops
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Collaborate and share documents
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Experience photos and entertainment
in your living room with Windows Media Center |
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Enjoy Windows Media Center
on TVs throughout your home with Xbox 360™ and other
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Help protect against hardware failure
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Business networking and Remote Desktop
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Better protect your data
against loss or theft with Windows BitLocker™ Drive
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Please note that all the above information has been sourced from the Microsoft website and is correct at the time. Shop Laptop makes no warranty as to the content or accuracy of above information. For more information please visit www.microsoft.com.
