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  2. Windows Media Center - Wikipedia

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    On Windows 10 Technical Preview ... Windows Vista Media Center introduced support for CableCARD devices. ... If custom code or other functionality is required to ...

  3. Features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista includes Direct3D 10, which adds scheduling and memory virtualization capabilities to the Windows graphics subsystem, as well as support for unified pixel shaders, geometry shaders, and vertex shaders. Significant is the elimination of "capability bits" of previous versions of Direct3D, which previously were used to indicate which ...

  4. Windows key - Wikipedia

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    Windows 11 features a design reflecting the current Windows and Microsoft logos, using four equally sized squares. The previous Windows key (center) shipping with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. The Windows key (center) with an orb surrounding the center-anchored Windows logo used for Windows Vista and Windows 7.

  5. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Windows 2000 used its built-in kernel mode font, Windows XP, Vista, and 7 use the Lucida Console font, and Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 used the Segoe UI font. BSoDs on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are rendered in higher resolutions than previous versions of Windows, where it uses the highest screen resolution available on UEFI machines.

  6. Microsoft Product Activation - Wikipedia

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    In Windows Vista SP1, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2, after a grace period of 30 days (60 days for Windows Server 2008), the operating system will display the notice stating that the copy of Windows is not genuine and set the desktop background to black. This includes allowing only critical and ...

  7. Mojave Experiment - Wikipedia

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    The study begins by asking the participant's thoughts of Windows Vista, with their answers based solely on their knowledge from word of mouth. They were then asked to rate Windows Vista, from 0 to 10. Next, the participants were introduced to Windows "Mojave." This was Windows Vista, rebranded to prevent preconceived bias. The users were guided ...

  8. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe , and loading boot-time device drivers into memory.

  9. Windows Anytime Upgrade - Wikipedia

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    Windows Anytime Upgrade (Add Features to Windows) was a service by Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista that facilitated upgrades across successive editions of Windows Vista. [1] Prices for upgrades purchased through Windows Anytime Upgrade were lower than prices for upgrades purchased at retail.