Windows Vista FAQ

After a long wait finally Windows Vista is released by Microsoft and it is having dynamic changes as compared to the older version of windows. Also as a latest OS, is having tuning drivers, updating software, and readying their first hardware and PCs to ship with Vista preinstalled. Here are some windows vista FAQ listed below will surely helpful to you.

• What is Windows Vista?The very next successor of Windows XP is the windows Vista.
  
  
  
• Why it is called Windows Vista?Microsoft keeps on changing the releasing software names without successive name like Windows 2000, Windows ME, windows XP, and so on. Now to have a catchy name for its product it named it as Windows Vista or else people may consider as a boring release.
  
  
  
• Office 2007 which is next version of Microsoft Office was finalized with Windows Vista, will it only run on Windows Vista?It is not the case; Office 2007 will run on Windows Vista as well as on various versions like Windows XP with SP2, Windows XP x64 Edition, and Windows Server 2003 with SP1.
  
  
  
• How is Windows Vista is connected, clear and confident?The Windows vista is having three main features as always needed by Microsoft and also summarizes the product.
  When one says Windows Vista is Connected, it means it helps you to connect with the people, information and new technical devices, in a short time and easily. When one can say Windows Vista is clear, it means user-friendly and so having very expressive user interface, as well as clearly access your own information as well as introduces clear ways to organize and use information to focus on exact results for you.
  When one talks about confidence, many people never trust computers because of spyware as well as electronic threats, instead Windows Vista gives confidence in PC and help you to get out of it. Microsoft says windows Vista is more secure and reliable for your PC.
  
  
• What do you mean by XPS?
• In 2005 Microsoft announced addition of new document format and printing architecture called XML Paper Specification, "XPS" in Windows Vista. XML based XPS is to Windows Vista as Adobe PDF is to Mac OS X: it is basically a device and application independent printing architecture which print documents as in their exact formatting in any application.
  An XML-based electronic paper format is included in XPS, a document viewer for viewing, managing, and printing XPS files, also with some new features like to digitally sign XPS documents, APIs which allow to integrate the applications and services with XPS, print pipeline, and new driver model for XPS-compatible printers.
• • Windows Vista was based on Windows Server 2003, and not on Windows XP, so dose Windows Vista is more stable/less consumer-friendly than Windows XP?
  • Latest Windows versions are always be based on the older and up-to-date Windows version up to that time, and when Microsoft reset Longhorn development and started working on that product, it is known as Windows Vista. When Windows Vista development in 2001 started and it was then based on Windows XP.
    In the middle of 2004 Microsoft restarted core development of Windows Vista, as its hard to go back and componentize the existing Windows Vista core code. While restarted Windows Vista development, Microsoft used the Windows Server 2003 with SP1 code base instead of using the code of Windows XP.
    still don't get confused by this as Vista also includes all of the features and compatibility from windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2). And also Microsoft writes in internal documentation, the company is taking only the best features of both the OS Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) as well as Windows Server 2003 with SP1 to create Windows Vista OS.
    
  • One should not buy a Windows XP-based PC, if wants to shift to Windows vista?If one thinking of migrating to Windows Vista in coming six months or may be less duration, should wait for Windows Vista. One can get better improvements in Windows Vista than will get after upgrading windows XP on the PC.
    
  • Windows Vista is a 32-bit or 64-bit OS?Virtually each Windows Vista product edition except Starter one, ships with both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions on the same DVD. Microsoft expects the computer buying public to switch to x64 during the Windows Vista life. Also there will not be a possibility of Itanium version of Windows Vista.