Windows Vista.

As I update new stuff to this blog about microsoft, one can see a strategy formulating behind such moves, to take on rivals like Apple, Yahoo, etc

Microsoft and Windows Vista (Next generation operating system)

The most noticeable of all will be the release of the Next generation of Windows operating system called the Windows Vista that is touted as being the most secure, advanced and user friendly computer operating system that is rich in graphics and audio features. As always, Microsoft has summarized using three simple points, and with Windows Vista, those three points are "connected," "clear," and "confident". Here's what the company means by this:

Connected: Windows Vista will seamlessly connect you with the people, information and devices you need to interact with, quickly and in a really straightforward way. No computer sits alone anymore, according to the company, and you're connected to the Web, and to devices, you want to contact people and to share things.

Confident: Thanks to spy ware and other electronic threats, people don't trust their computers anymore. Windows Vista will give people more confidence in their PC and their ability to get more out of it. Microsoft tells me it's going to "take care of things" and make things more discoverable in Windows Vista. It enables a new level of confidence in the security and

reliability of your PC and in your ability to get the most out of it.

Clear: This refers both to the clarity of the user interface, which now sports a glass-like sheen that is, appropriately enough, called Aero Glass, and to the ways in which Windows Vista lets you more clearly access your own information. Instead of making you adapt to the way the computer structures data, Window Vista is far more dynamic, and far more personal. Windows Vista introduces clear ways to organize and use your information to focus on what matters to you,

( this picture is a real screen image where you can do a 3D flip of open window)

With vista, new features such as new user experience, security, search capabilities, new IE 7 with never crash guarantee, new application, parental control, faster networking, speech recognition and many many new features.

Image source: winsupersite.com

Here is the windows vista video - higlhy recommended

Thus, as Microsoft gets ready with the new windows operating system, the strategy is not market dominance but rather to fend of rivalry from apple Mac machines and other open source systems , thus with tremendus focus on security, I would probably assume that such product differentiation will enable to determine the future position.

The key to microsoft success is that it should build products that are crash free, virus free, and stable...............