Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed, Second Edition

Chapter 1. An Overview of Windows Vista

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The Development of Windows Vista

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Windows Vista System Requirements

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Windows Vista Editions

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Windows Anytime Upgrade

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New Interface Features

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What’s New Under the Hood

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New and Improved Programs and Tools

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It’s hard to believe, but when Windows Vista shipped in 2007, it was a full quarter of a century after Microsoft released its first version of MS-DOS, and an astonishing 23 years since the company announced the original version of Windows (which eventually shipped—to almost no acclaim—in 1985). Windows ...