Microsoft showed some Vista features
Moldova.ORG -- With the launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 less than a month away, Microsoft was in New York showing off some features of the products it thinks should convince business customers that upgrading--and deploying both applications at once--is a good idea.
Windows Vista and Office 2007 will launch together alongside Exchange Server 2007 at an event in New York on November 30.
Peter McKiernan, a senior product manager for Windows, highlighted new features built directly into Vista that will make it more efficient and productive for enterprise employees to use the OS in their everyday work environment.
Among them is Vista's new search engine. Microsoft has added a search box right into Windows Start menu, so instead of having to find applications or files by clicking through lists, all users have to do is start typing the name of the application or file they are looking for and it will come up in the search, McKiernan said.
Users can still search specifically for certain kinds of files, such as e-mails, Word documents, photos or music, but because search is an inherent part of the OS, it speeds up any search process considerably, he said.
Microsoft also has added a feature to its file system that allows users to preview any document before they open it in a preview pane. This includes all of the documents that originate in Office 2007, he said.
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