Introduction of Windows^® Vista™

Windows^® Vista™ general features

Instant Search - help you find and launch data in your PC. Just type in a word, a name, or a phrase, it can find the right file for you instantly.

Explorers - With new Explorers, you don’t have to open files to see what they are. The new Live Icon feature will show you what they are by icons.

Windows Internet Explorer 7 - Tabbed browsing and live previews make it easier for you to get to the websites you want to visit.

Windows Media Player 11: With the new Windows Media Player 11 interface, it gives you an easier way to enjoy and manage your music, video, and pictures on your PC.

Windows Sidebar: You may find gadgets like picture slide shows, Windows Media Player controls, or news headlines. You may customize the gadgets you want to see in Windows Sidebar.

Windows^® Vista™ Premium Version

Windows Aero is an environment with additional special visual effects for Home Premium user experience. Windows Vista™ Aero provides spectacular visual effects such as glass-like interface elements that you can see through and 3D effects.

Glass-like interface - Windows^® Vista™ Aero provides spectacular visual effects such as glass-like interface elements that you can see through.

Live taskbar thumbnails - If you rest the mouse pointer over a taskbar item, it will display a live thumbnail of the window, showing the content of that window.

Windows Flip - Flip allows you to flip through open windows, providing a live thumbnail of each window, rather than just a generic icon and file name. Live thumbnails make it easier to quickly find the window you want.

Windows Flip 3D - With Flip 3D, you can use the scroll wheel on your mouse to flip through open windows in a stack, and quickly locate the one you want.

Media Center Edition (MCE): Windows Media Center is included in Windows^® Vista™ OS. MCE enhances the expanded support of digital and high-definition cable TV, improves menu system, and able to create a consumer-electronics-quality living-room experience, and new options for multi-room access to your entertainment.

You may continue viewing the show you're watching in full-screen, at the same time, navigating the Media Center menus.