Windows Vista Secrets

نام کتاب : Windows Vista Secrets
نویسنده : Brian Livingston - Paul Thurrott

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فرمت : pdf
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Welcome to Windows Vista Secrets, the latest in the bestselling Windows Secrets series!
We’ve  rewritten  this  book  from  the  ground  up  in  response  to  this  major  release  of Microsoft  Windows.  We  hope  you  enjoy  combing  through  this  book  as  much  as  we enjoyed digging through Windows Vista to find these nuggets of valuable information.

chapter 1 :

I n  this  preliminary  chapter  we  give  you  a  crash  course  in  some  of  the  major  new features of Vista. Give us 15 minutes and we’ll show you the biggest changes in the operating system — before you may have to grapple with them yourself.

The Value of Vista

We waited more than five years for Vista. As you may recall, Windows XP was released with much fanfare in October 2001. But instead of the next Windows version shipping in just a couple of years, as originally expected, Microsoft lost its way in the development process. Vista didn’t make it to consumers until early 2007.

Was it worth the wait?

The short answer is, “Yes.” We believe Vista is a major advance on Microsoft’s previous operating systems. If you’re buying a new PC today, we don’t hesitate to recommend that you  get  Vista  rather  than  requesting  XP  or  another,  older  operating  system.  (If  you’re upgrading an older PC to Vista, by contrast, be sure to first read our tips in Chapter 3.)
In 2001, Microsoft executives widely claimed that XP was “the most secure operating system we have ever delivered.” In fact, XP and its new Web browser, Internet Explorer 6.0, were full of maddening security holes that previous operating systems didn’t suffer from.
ActiveX exploits, drive-by downloads, and many other kinds of weaknesses were quickly exploited by black-hat hackers. Microsoft has been issuing patches for XP and IE 6.0 ever since....

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