A report was recently released suggesting that user productivity has taken a step back in Windows Vista, when compared to the level of user productivity in Windows XP.

The researcher may be correct in terms of certain functions in Windows Vista being slower than in Windows XP, but the main issue being ignored are the many additional features in Windows Vista which result in increased productivity.

Features such as:

• live taskbar previews
• live task switcher previews (alt-tab)
• powerful integrated search capabilities absolutely everywhere
• new Windows Calendar
• new Windows ReadyBoost, allowing you to easily add extra RAM to any system via a USB stick
• new DVD maker
• more powerful Windows Mail
• new Windows Meeting Space, allowing you to easily have multimedia group meetings (upto 10 people) with other Vista users
• new Photo Gallery
• more powerful Movie Maker
• new powerful Sync tool
• Windows Sidebar
• new speech recognition
• new Windows Mobility Center, giving you central access to all of the main mobility tools from one location
• new Windows Easy Transfer
• file level automatic restore (shadow copies)
• file level tagging (metadata)
• multiple views in Windows Explorer
• automatic disk degragmentation
• SuperFetch, to speed up application load times
• network and sharing center, to make networking easy
• fast sleep and resume capabilities
• live icons, giving you the ability to see a preview of files without needing to open them
• search folders, allowing you to create search queries and save them as a virtual folder
• Windows Aero, which is the new graphical look of Vista
• improved fax and scanning capabilities
• improved windows firewall
• and I could go on and on….

I know both Windows XP and Windows Vista very well, and there’s just no way you could make me go from Vista back to Windows XP. I’m vastly more productive in Vista.

(Go to the WinSuperSite for more details on Windows Vista features)

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