Windows Vista - 7 Reasons to Upgrade XP

After years of waiting, Microsoft Windows Vista has finally arrived. Although this article will cover reasons to switch over to Vista, it would be wise to consider waiting till your ready to upgrade your hardware or buy a new PC (please see my other article on Vista, right here on associated content). I say this partly because Microsoft is already planning a Service Pack 1 upgrade for Vista sometime later this year. Now on to the 7 reasons why you will want to upgrade your Windows XP OS.

New Interface.... Vista comes with a brand new interface, that will make this version the best looking Windows yet. From a new start menu, to transparent animated windows, new elegant colors, and a bunch of additional changes, it is sure to be the most beautiful looking one ever. If you have ever seen a Mac, you'll think Bill Gates told his programmers to copy it.

Live Thumbnails.... For those of you who like to multi-task, have a bunch of web pages open at the same time or use multiple programs simultaneously, your life is about to become easier. With Live Thumbnails you can hover the mouse over any window on the taskbar, and a little thumbnail of that window will come up. You'll see the program, the website or document name right above the thumbnail. They call it live, because if your watching a video in that window, it will be playing in the thumbnail too. Pretty Cool!

3D Windows.... Gone are the frustrations of switching between windows on XP. No more of that Alt-Tab, which window will I get syndrome! Instead of that old guessing game, now you'll see all those windows in a 3D stack. With Vista press Alt-Tab and Windows 3D goes into action. You'll see a display of thumbnails with all those open windows stacked up in 3D. With this feature, you'll now be able to flip through them one by one till you find the one you want. That alone might make Vista worth it!