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  2. Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years earlier, which was then the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows.

  3. Development of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The development of Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) began in May 2001, [1] prior to the completion of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, and continued until November 8, 2006, when it was released to manufacturing.

  4. List of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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    Timeline showing releases of Windows for personal computers and servers. Microsoft Windows is a computer operating system developed by Microsoft. It was first launched in 1985 as a graphical operating system built on MS-DOS. The initial version was followed by several subsequent releases, and by the early 1990s, the Windows line had split into ...

  5. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Although the Low Battery Alarm and Critical Battery Alarm sounds were updated in Windows Vista, the operating system's battery meter only displays an onscreen notification when a battery's energy reaches a low or critical level; the use of these sounds is reserved for third-party battery meter applications. Microsoft states that this is by design.

  6. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista is the first Windows operating system to include fully integrated support for speech recognition. Under Windows 2000 and XP, Speech Recognition was installed with Office 2003, or was included in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. A brief speech-driven tutorial is included to help familiarize a user with speech recognition commands.

  7. Windows Vista editions - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista—a major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system—was available in six different product editions: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On September 5, 2006, Microsoft announced the USD pricing for editions available through retail channels; [ 3 ] the operating system was ...

  8. Features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista features Windows Color System (WCS), a platform for color management. [59] Its goal is to obtain color consistency across various software and hardware including cameras, monitors, printers, and scanners. Different devices interpret the same colors differently, according to their software and hardware configurations.

  9. List of Microsoft Windows components - Wikipedia

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    Built-in benchmarking tool that analyzes the different subsystems (graphics, memory, etc.), and uses the results to allow for comparison to other Windows Vista systems, and for software optimizations. It rates the computer's performance using the Windows Experience Index. winsat.exe: Windows Vista: System Restore