| Welcome to Windows Vista: The L Line, The Express Line to Learning.
This book is one in a new tutorial series from Wiley Publishing created for independent learners, students, and teachers. Whether you are learning (or teaching) in a classroom setting or gaining new skills while you explore Windows Vista for fun, this book is for you. As rigorous and replete as any college course or seminar, Windows Vista: The L Line offers instruction for developing your Windows skill set — specifically, the skills that everyone needs, from casual Windows users to company tech support gurus.
As do all titles in The L Line: The Express Line to Learning series, this book’s design embraces the metaphor of learning as a journey — a trip on a railway system — with navigational tools and real-world stops along the way. The destination, of course, is mastery of Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista.
A new look. A new feel. A new operating system — Windows Vista! With Windows Vista, Microsoft makes a quantum jump from earlier versions of its graphical interface operating systems. Those, through Windows XP, featured a recognizable and utilitarian interface that was the boundary between the operator using mouse and keyboard or other device and the internal workings of the computer. The graphics were adequate; the security often less so. And the improvements from one version to the next were evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Windows Vista represents a revolutionary change. For starters, it doesn’t look like any previous version of Windows. Vista’s graphics are highly interactive, offering the user many more ways to access, process, and keep track of information and processes. A fundamental change at the very core of the operating system (combined with an allout effort to wall off security threats and even protect the system from its own users) makes this the most secure Windows operating system by far.
Vista is more flexible, more customizable and more secure than ever. |
