PreOrder Windows Vista Now!

Date Published: 15/11/06

The next massive step in operating systems from Microsoft, Windows Vista, is now available for Pre-ordering.


- Microsoft Windows Vista Home (Basic Edition)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home (Premium Edition)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate





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.

All of the elements of Windows Vista work together to create a new breakthrough computing experience. Take a look for yourself.



The basic user experience

Unlike prior versions of Windows, Windows Vista provides two distinct user interface experiences: a "basic" experience for entry-level systems, and a more visually dynamic experience called Windows Aero. Both offer a new and intuitive navigation experience that helps you more easily find and organize your applications and files, but Aero goes further by delivering a truly next-generation desktop experience.

Computers running Windows Vista Home Basic or those without the hardware needed to run Windows Aero will use the basic user interface. The basic experience has been updated and streamlined so you can work with your programs and files more easily than in previous versions of Windows. For example:

* The refined Start menu helps you instantly find and start any program on your PC.
* New Explorers and supporting features, such as integrated desktop search and Live Icons, help you work with your data in clear and effective ways.
* The new Details and Preview Panes let you see what your files contain without having to open them.

The Windows Aero experience

Windows Aero builds on the basic Windows Vista user experience and offers Microsoft’s best-designed, highest-performing desktop experience. Using Aero requires a PC with a compatible graphics adapter and running a Premium or Business edition of Windows Vista.

A noticeably new element of the Aero experience is the translucent effect of Aero Glass, featuring dynamic reflections and smooth animations. The glass windows create an open, lightweight environment―and more importantly, help you to better focus on your content, rather than on the surrounding interface.

Two exciting new Aero features, Windows Flip and Windows Flip 3D, provide a new way to confidently manage the windows on your desktop, so you can see them in a new visually striking, yet convenient way. Beyond the new graphics and visual polish, the Windows Aero desktop experience performs as elegantly and professionally as it looks, with smoother window handling, increased graphics stability, and glitch-free visuals. All of which give you a simple, comfortable, and high-quality experience.

Glass
Aero features windows that are truly translucent. In addition to giving the desktop a more polished look and feel, the effect of glass allows you to more easily focus on the contents contained within a window, and also provides better context for the surrounding elements on your desktop while you’re working.

Dynamic windows

In Windows Vista, windows are dynamic. When minimized, a window will subtly animate to a specific location on the taskbar, making it easier to locate when you need it later.
Taskbar thumbnails

With Windows Aero, live taskbar thumbnails show you the contents of the windows that are currently open, in the background, or minimized in the taskbar. When you pause your mouse over a window tile on the taskbar, you see the thumbnail of the "live" contents of that window without having to bring it to the forefront of your screen.

Windows Flip

Windows Flip is an update of the feature known as ALT+TAB in previous versions of Windows. With Aero, Windows Flip shows you live thumbnails of your open windows instead of generic icons, making it easier to identify the window you’re looking for. It even lets you instantly minimize all the windows on your desktop.

Windows Flip 3D

With Aero, Windows Flip 3D creates a view of your open windows in a three-dimensional stack on your desktop. Using the Windows logo+TAB keys, you can flip through the open windows to quickly locate and select the window you want.

Smoother window performance

When using Windows Aero, open windows glide smoothly on your screen when you move or resize them. There are no redraw artifacts, latency, or "tearing" effects that you sometimes see, particularly in windows that display dynamic content such as video. Using Aero will even reduce legacy graphics driver-related problems on your system, giving you an even more confident and stable Windows desktop experience.



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Currently, you can only pre-order the full versions, we will add the upgrades to the site when we get the information from Microsoft.


- Microsoft Windows Vista Home (Basic Edition)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home (Premium Edition)
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate