PC Magazine Windows Vista Solutions
Chapter One
Microsoft Windows
Vista: Windows for
the 21st Century
If you've been around a while, you know that the advent of the Windows operating system revolutionized
the PC desktop. (Of course, Macs had a look and feel similar to Windows long before,
although Macintosh and Windows users should remember that Xerox Parc preceded them both.) It
was more than ten years before Windows went through a major change with Windows 95 (cue the
Rolling Stones' Start Me Up!). Win95 represented a significant departure from the Windows of old.
In the next six years Microsoft brought us Windows 98, Millennium, 2000, and XP as updates to
Windows 95. Now, another 10+ years have passed and another significant change is before us (see
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