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Windows Vista RTMs. Now what?
Saturday, November 11th, 2006
It’s been all over the news – Windows Vista has gone gold at last. But what does this mean to the 
everyday computer user, who is unlikely to be queuing up at their local mass merchant retailer as happened with Windows 95? Will Vista be the massive hit Microsoft desperately needs it to be?
When Windows 95 hit the streets, it was a genuinely big upgrade to the Windows 3.11 many of us had used on a daily basis. Long file name support, something we take for granted today, was a big feature of Windows 95, even though Mac users had enjoyed it for years.
The ‘Start menu’ was born, as was an improved graphical interface, TCP/IP was built into the OS even though Microsoft had yet to ship a browser and much more, while Windows 95 itself signalled the beginning of the end for DOS as a mainstream OS.
Now Windows Vista is here, three years later than originally planned, with most of its must-have features, including desktop search and more, already available on Windows XP and Mac OS X, the two biggest competitors to Vista, of which Windows XP is still the biggest competitor by sheer numbers alone. iTWire - Windows Vista RTMs. Now what?
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