Here are the list of cool things, I have discovered so far:
* Cycle through windows (Windows Logo Key + Tab) and cycle through windows in task bar (again with preview) (Windows Logo Key + T)
* There is no outlook express (no..no..that's not the cool part
), instead Vista has a PIM (Personal Information Manager) built in. What I mean is there is a built-in Windows Calendar (thats the name as well). The calendar is not just some no-good barebone windows utility, but it actually is useful, it looks like Microsoft Outlook's (not Outlook Express) calendar interface* Cool search ... its search as you type. Now, you can add tags to photos, and search using the tags. It sort of is like Launchy, the search in the start menu, you can press the windows key and start typing and you see programs come up. Its like search is integrated in every place. The power of Search seems to have become very obivious after Google's popularity
* Live Previews!!! Doesn't matter if its Alt+Tab or Windows Logo+Tab or Windows Logo+T, its live preview, you see whats actually going on in the application including Videos!!
* I have not used this one, but it is just so awesomee... ReadyBoost - its like an external RAM! you can attach a flash drive onto your USB port and using ReadyBoost use that for cacheing ... providing improved performance. You ask how is this different from caching on the hard disk? Well, hard disk read/write speed is slow compared to flash drives, so the data access is much faster! and I am sure there are a lot of other reasons
* Background defragmenter - automatic defragment is run when the computer is idle. Let me be honest, of all the years I have used a computer, I have defragmented less that a dozen times in total! just because the computer had to take its own time and some bad experiences from the days of pre-XP
Overall, I love Vista. Its like Microsoft looked at all the great utilities used by users with Windows XP, and decided to integrate them into the OS. Sure, Vista is big...may be even huge...but common...we have the logical resources now, technology is moving forward...lets make the most of it
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