An Introduction To Microsoft Vista Business
This article is designed to help you get the most out of Vista Business. It discusses why you should upgrade, the features, benefits and more.
Why Should You Upgrade?
1. You want to protect your business from viruses and hackers with Windows Vista security features known as PatchGuard and BitLocker Drive Encryption.
2. Windows Vista Business provides a much better experience for enterprise-level applications, such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for messaging or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for databases.
What does Windows Vista Business Include?
1. Improved security:
Windows Vista Business is designed with built-in Vista Business Security technologies that help protect your business from viruses, hackers and spyware. Windows Vista includes a new feature, called PatchGuard, which protects your PC from rootkit attacks.
PatchGuard provides protection for the Windows kernel. Rootkits use vulnerabilities in the operating system to hide files and processes that could come from a virus or a hacker. PatchGuard patches these vulnerabilities so that your system cannot be compromised by rootkits.
2. Improved performance:
The Windows Aero user interface makes it easy for users to find and run their apps. This new feature streams desktop apps, such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, or common Internet applications (such as web browsers), so they are always ready when users need them. Windows Vista includes the next generation version of Windows Media Player 11, which runs with no loss in performance.
3. Enhanced security:
Vista supports BitLocker Drive Encryption technology that locks down your system's file system by encrypting all data stored on disk drives. Compared to a system with a simple hard drive password, BitLocker offers a number of key benefits.
BitLocker uses hardware-based encryption methods that are stronger than those used in previous versions of Windows.
4. Improved interoperability:
Vista technologies like the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and the Common Internet File System (CIFS) interoperate much more easily with other devices, while still providing security and privacy controls. Vista also provides support for remote desktop protocols, which allow users to connect from a remote location to another computer on their network or from another computer on the Internet.
5. Improved productivity:
Vista supports Windows Aero, the new user interface, which gives users a high-performance, streamlined user experience while reducing system resource consumption. Windows Aero delivers an integrated desktop and window manager that supports richer visual effects like blur, drop shadows and 3D transforms.
Windows Vista includes Microsoft Office 2007 with four applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. These applications provide a seamless transition from previous versions of Office to the new version of Office for Windows Vista Business.
How Does it Work?
By upgrading to Windows Vista Business Edition the following benefits will be realized;
New Features:
1. New user experience
Windows Vista provides a new, modern user experience that includes a streamlined look and feel with more vivid colors, animated transitions, and more powerful, interactive applications.
2. Better performance
With Windows Vista Business Edition Windows is more responsive in both the graphical and physical areas compared to Windows XP Service Pack 2. Window animations are faster, file copy and paste is faster, and the boot up time is shorter.
3. Greater security
The new features of BitLocker Drive Encryption help secure laptops so they can't be broken into by a hacker or stolen after being transported around the world. The new Update Services feature helps keep your system secure by providing you with better protection against vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. The new Network Access Protection feature helps you protect the security of your business from viruses, worms and other malicious code.
4. Better application experience
The new Windows Vista Business Edition comes with a number of applications for business and home use, which will make it easier to store and organize information, create presentations and share music and photos. The new Microsoft Office Live Workspace is designed to make collaboration easier by providing a way to easily manage projects, share ideas as well as save, access and organize information.
5. Better support
The new version of Windows Vista Business Edition supports the new Microsoft Office Live Workspace, which is designed to make collaboration simpler by providing a way to easily manage projects, share ideas as well as save, access and organize information.
Benefits:
1. Increased productivity:
Upgrading to Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition boosts employee productivity due to the improved file copy and paste features, better native support for business applications and programs that are compatible with standards such as CIFS and UPnP. This will enable businesses to focus more on their core competencies. Upgrading also allows businesses to run multiple virtual machines that allow users to test software updates before applying them live in the production environment.
2. Greater security:
Windows Vista Business Edition supports a variety of security features that protect your business from potential data loss. Windows Vista Business also provides the flexibility to allow users to create their own home pages, which will make it easier for employees who want to personalize their workstations.
Benefits:
1. Increased productivity:
More efficient internal file sharing and external access speeds up business operations and helps conserve computing resources by reducing the cost of maintaining multiple file servers. Secure file sharing, remote management and monitoring by corporate IT personnel all help protect against unauthorized access or theft of information, while allowing workers to be more productive within the organization.
2. Greater security:
Windows Vista Business Edition offers increased protection from viruses, worms and other malicious code by implementing standards-based technologies like UPnP, UPnP AV and port triggering to the desktop, providing a consistent level of protection for home users on broadband and dial-up connections.
Windows Vista Business Edition provides a new user experience that includes a streamlined look and feel with more vivid colors, animated transitions, and more powerful, interactive applications. With Windows Vista Business Edition this edition introduces 3D graphics to make photos and videos pop right off the screen in your media center. Windows Vista Business Edition also includes DirectX 10, which introduces support for 10-bit and 12-bit color formats, 3D video rendering and the ability to enable hardware acceleration of up to 24 GPUs.
In mid-2006, a "Consumer Preview" of Windows Vista was released. This version is also known as RC0 (Release Candidate 0). This edition is not intended for consumer use. Instead, it is aimed at developers, corporations and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to provide feedback on the development of the product prior to its release.
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The default view on the new desktop is now a simple list of all of your open files, with the icon for the file at the left side of the window, and a preview of that file at the top. The Tabbed Browsing feature automatically switches to another open file when you are working on that file and then switch back if you are looking for the next open file.
The desktop can be customized. The Start menu can be removed and replaced with an advanced search engine, or even a completely different start menu design. Windows Vista Home Basic also provides support for themes developed by independent developers.