opinions about MS Vista

[Mario Vukelic]

Please take this to the sounder list, this list is for "Ubuntu user
technical support, not for general discussions" 

*grin* who would have thought _I'd ever say this ;)

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 15:38 -0600, Mustafa Ozkaynak wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just received an email from a friend (Actually he is a windows
> lover). He attended a session organized by Microsoft to introduce the
> most recent OS.
> Some of the shining stuff he mentioned about the Vista is as follows: 
> 
> 1. Advance sleeping mode. computer can switch mode in 1 second and
> come back in 2 seconds
> 2. GPO, you can schedule your computer so it switches on automatically
> at a specified time.
> 3. Superfetch: softwares can work at background and when they are
> needed they come back to foreground  in very short time. so there is
> almost  no loading time. 
> 4. USB drivers can be use as an extention to RAM
> 5. BitLocker security system. The data in the system is encrypted
> with a BIOS information so the Harddisk can not be read on any other
> computer.
> 6. Built in advance "getting image of HD software" such as ghost. 
> 7. XPS Document Printer. Iexplorer can show all kinds of documents
> without any extra software (e.g. you can see pdf files without
> Acrobat).
> 8. Advance search engine for the harddisk
> 9. Advance recovery system (Windows Recovery Environment) 
> 10 You can define some specific events and copy these events to
> another computer easily (Mac does this for a while with automator).
> 
> What do you guys think about those. I am happy with my OS (Dappler
> Drake) but these features look pretty promising 
> 
> -- 
> Mustafa Ozkaynak
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