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  2. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The Ambience, Particle, Plenoptic, Spikes, and Musical Colors visualizations have been removed. The options to use the legacy renderer, overlay mixer, video mixing renderer (VMR-7) or high quality mode (VMR-9) are not available in the Windows Vista version of Windows Media Player 11.

  3. List of Microsoft codenames - Wikipedia

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    Feature introduced in Windows Vista to support hybrid drives: Protogon — ReFS: The successor of NTFS: Rincon — Internet Explorer 7: Rincon is a surfing beach in Puerto Rico Spartan — Microsoft Edge: Web browser first introduced in Windows 10, which uses EdgeHTML rendering engine. Refers to Spartans in Halo. Stimpy —

  4. Features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Compared with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, features new to Windows Vista are very numerous, covering most aspects of the operating system, including additional management features, new aspects of security and safety, new I/O technologies, new networking features, and new technical features. Windows Vista also removed some others.

  5. List of alternative shells for Windows - Wikipedia

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    List of alternative shells for Windows. This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is a shell. Windows' standard user interface is the Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x have a different shell, called Program Manager.

  6. List of computer technology code names - Wikipedia

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    Cairo — Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Calais — Sun Next generation JavaStation. Calexico — Intel PRO/Wireless 2100B. Calistoga — Intel chipsets for Napa platforms. Calvin — Sun SPARCStation 2. Camaro — AMD Mobile Duron. Cambridge — Fedora Linux 10. Camelot — Sun product family name for Arthur, Excalibur, Morgan.

  7. Criticism of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    e. Windows Vista, an operating system released by Microsoft for consumers on January 30, 2007, has been widely criticized by reviewers and users. Due to issues with new security features, performance, driver support and product activation, Windows Vista has been the subject of a number of negative assessments by various groups.

  8. Graphical identification and authentication - Wikipedia

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    The graphical identification and authentication (GINA) is a component of Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, [1] Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 [2] that provides secure authentication and interactive logon services. GINA is a replaceable dynamically linked library that is loaded early in the boot process in the context of ...

  9. 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. It was released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006, and over the following two months, it was ...