| | Watch the Demos | | With centralized Parental Controls, you can manage your family's safety more easily by determining the access to certain Internet sites, games played by rating, and even the amount of time your children can spend on your computer during the week. You can even restrict their computer use to specific time-slots, and can also get a detailed report on their internet use. Transfer photos from your camera to your computer in a flash. Windows Vista offers an easy, one-click system for importing pictures to designated folders on your PC. You can even tag your images with one or more keywords so they'll be organized in a way that makes them easier to find. Now you can spend more time snapping and viewing pictures and less time finding them. Windows Photo Gallery makes it much easier to find, enjoy, and share that extra-special shot. Organize your images by date, place, person, star rating—or any tag you choose—and find them at a glance. Produce high-quality prints using easy, built-in tools like Cropping, Red-Eye Removal, and one-click Auto Adjust. Back up and preserve all of the content you store on your PC—those priceless digital photos, important documents, home movies, and the music you spent time ripping—with Windows Backup. Exploring online will come with more peace of mind using Windows Internet Explorer 7, which helps protect your PC and your personal information against malicious software, fraudulent websites, and online phishing scams. And with Windows Defender keeping watch over your PC, you can avoid pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software that tries to find its way onto your PC. See everything you're working on more clearly with Windows Aero, and quickly switch between windows or tasks using Windows Flip 3D and Live Thumbnails. You can easily find what you need—when you need it―with Instant Search and live icon previews that display the actual contents of your files. And while you're at it, give your personal productivity a boost with instant access to the information you care about using Windows Sidebar and Gadgets. Put these easy-to-use and customizable mini-applications on your desktop and reveal the information you're looking for at a glance. Windows Media Center changes the way you enjoy recorded TV, photos, music, home videos, and DVDs on your PC. Whether sitting in front of your PC using the mouse or sitting on your couch using a Windows Media Center remote control, you can sit back and enjoy your entertainment, on your own time. There's no need to limit the Windows Media Center experience to your PC either. Using your Xbox 360 that's connected to your home wired or wireless network, you can enjoy the Windows Media Center experience through a TV in other rooms around your home. Take all of your entertainment with you―virtually anywhere you go―with Windows Media Center on a mobile PC. You can optimize the power and mobile settings that are critical to keeping you connected while on the go—all from one place―with the Windows Mobility Center. Using the Windows Sync Center will help to ensure that all of your music, contacts, and pictures are in sync with your other mobile devices, so they're ready to go when you are. Network and Sharing Center provides easy access to the wireless networks you use, whether at home or around town at your favorite hotspot, keeping you connected and more productive wherever you are. And, while you're on the go, work the way you want with touch and digital ink input and handwriting. Windows Tablet and Touch Technology makes your notebook PC experience truly personal. | | The show schedule or your schedule? Up until now, it's often been one or the other. With Windows Vista you can decide not only what you watch, but when and where you watch it. Welcome to the future of entertainment! |
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| | Your music just got easier to love. Store all your songs, download new music, and have fun with new features that make it simple to find, mix, and enjoy your songs the way you want. |
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| | Windows Vista delivers simply great gaming. Playing the games you love with Windows Vista is easier, more exciting, and more fun than ever before. Choose from a wide selection of games and experience jaw-dropping 3D graphics in a safer gaming environment for the whole family. |
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| | Time is precious. More than ever, you need a system that is simple, easy, natural, and even enjoyable—so you can get things done and focus on what matters most in your life. |
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| | It's now safer and easier to connect with the people who matter most. Whether you choose voice, video, photos, or text—you've got an amazing array of options with Windows Vista. |
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| | Your business data is invaluable—Windows Vista Business has advanced, intuitive, automated data protection and safety features, so you worry less about your data and more about your customers. |
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| | With Windows Vista Business it's easier and faster than ever to find, use, manage and share the information on your PC, on your server, or on the web. |
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| | Windows Vista Business lays a solid IT foundation and is the smart investment that your business needs today and tomorrow. |
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| | Your business doesn't live in an office—it goes wherever you go. With Windows Vista Business, you have simple ways to connect, communicate, network, and get it done—whether you're in the office or on the road. |
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