The British Library are developing an interface to read virtual copies of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codecs and many other priceless books in the archives will become available over time and no doubt from many other libraries and collections around the world. Mercedes AMG are letting you customise your own Mercedes advertisement with the car specifications of your choice and then seeing ‘your’ car in action bringing advertising on the internet to a level that television cannot deliver.

The above screen shots are taken from See Windows Vista, so if you have broadband internet access for a visually stunning demonstration of what Microsoft Windows Vista can do for the home user or the enterprise head on over and check it out.. A demonstration of the NYT Reader is available on Microsoft’s on10 web site.

Managing your data with Vista has introduced great new functionality in navigation and searching with features such as instant search, slider views, metadata integration which all make to include finding and orginising your data far easier than what you can do today.

A topic that rightfully deserves its own post and in depth analysis is the security model that Microsoft have implemented into Windows Vista and is what I would expect many people have been waiting for a long time to have ‘out of the box’ and workable for the average user. With Vista you are logged in is a ‘standard user’ and not as an ‘administrator’ giving you the security protection against virus, spyware and malware infecting the core of your operating system as the executed nasty when triggered only has access with-in the security context of the currently logged in user and cannot access system protected regions as only administrators have these access privileges. The Windows Vista Firewall is now fully supports inbound and outbound protection where as previously in Windows XP the firewall was only one way filtering. Internet Explorer 7+ is different to that of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP and 2003 as it also has greater security ties within the operating system of Vista and runs with-in its own security context again isolating it from the local user account and the Vista core operating system.

Windows Vista - Get Ready contains all the links you should need in evaluating if your PC can run Vista and registration links to download or be sent a trial copy of Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 CPP. Again if you have not yet had a look at See Windows Vista, I urge you to try and have a look.

Intel Vista Ready CPU Guide
AMD Vista Ready CPU Guide
nVidia Graphics ready GPU's for Vista
ATI Graphics ready GPU's for Vista

In coming posts I will cover some other great ways of how Vista is moving along the Windows experience, including 'Guided Help', Sidebar, Gadgets, Problems and Reporting, RSS, System Restore, Networking and many other features. Let me know what you would like to see and I'll do my best to cover a wide range of topics and features for home, business, novice and expert users alike.