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Microsoft is working on the newest version of its Windows operating system. It's called Windows Vista1. And although it will not be out for another year and a half, New York Times Technology columnist2 David Pogue has got a sneak3 preview and he joins us once again. Hi, David.
Hi, Steve.
So what? Are they beta testing this thing on you?
That's exactly right. The very first beta version of Windows Vista has hit the streets. It's available only to programmers and software companies and efficient . .
People like you who might mention their name/.
Exactly.
Well, what's it like?
It looks very different. It's gorgeous. It has translucence4 and drop shadows and little animations5, much like Mac OS 10, for example - so it's quite elegant looking.
Um, any easier to use?
Um, easier to use, no; more features? Yes. One of the big things I think that most people will be expecting of Microsoft is a reaction against the viruses and the spyware, and they have done a lot of excellent work on that front. This might get a little technical, if your toes start to curl, my apologies . But one thing they've done is to make you work in a sort of limited mode. You can't make certain system settings that only a administrator6 can make. And this is the loophole that has let a lot of these viruses operate. So now they close a lot of doors that the hackers7 used to use.
I was in an Apple computer store not too long ago. How does this system compare/ to the Apple system?
I am hopeful that it will finally be as secure and problem- free as Mac OS 10 is and many of the features are very very similar actually. Microsoft has borrowed a lot of features. One of them is a universal search feature. So anywhere you are, you can hit a keystroke and do a search of everything on your computer, I mean, the words inside your files and Emails, you can pull up it in a heartbeat. (形容速度之快)
This will not be released until December 2006, why are they showing it to people like you now? Why aren't they just selling it now?
Um, They want to make sure that all the software companies have time to update their programs so they will run on this thing. I don't envy Microsoft's job here. I mean they, they have to make something solid and secure, it was never designed to be solid and secure, I mean, Windows 15 years ago, the code underneath8 this came out before the Internet and before viruses. So what they're having to do now is to patch things. But they can't change things too much, because then it'll, as they say, break too many programs that people use.
So what if you're a consumer deciding whether to spend money upgrading here?
Well, it's way too soon to know overall how this thing stacks up. But I will say that from the early looks of it, they've really done some good thinking about making things easier to understand. For example, the start menu, where you list all your programs. In Windows XP, the list of programs sort of overlaps9. The start menu has all these confusing triangles pointing out to the right with sub-menus. In the new start menu of Windows Vista, all your programs are in a tidy column with a little search box at the bottom, so you don't have to go hunting through the folders10 finding a certain program; you just type a couple of letters of its name and off you go.
And do you have to buy a new computer in order to run this?
A lot of people will want to upgrade their computers. Yes, it's exactly the same as happened with Windows XP. You can run it but you won't enjoy all the features and speed if you don't have the very latest computer.
David, thanks.
My pleasure.
David Pogue double clicks on technology for the New York Times and for Morning Edition.
Microsoft is working on the newest version of its Windows operating system. It's called Windows Vista1. And although it will not be out for another year and a half, New York Times Technology columnist2 David Pogue has got a sneak3 preview and he joins us once again. Hi, David.
Hi, Steve.
So what? Are they beta testing this thing on you?
That's exactly right. The very first beta version of Windows Vista has hit the streets. It's available only to programmers and software companies and efficient . .
People like you who might mention their name/.
Exactly.
Well, what's it like?
It looks very different. It's gorgeous. It has translucence4 and drop shadows and little animations5, much like Mac OS 10, for example - so it's quite elegant looking.
Um, any easier to use?
Um, easier to use, no; more features? Yes. One of the big things I think that most people will be expecting of Microsoft is a reaction against the viruses and the spyware, and they have done a lot of excellent work on that front. This might get a little technical, if your toes start to curl, my apologies . But one thing they've done is to make you work in a sort of limited mode. You can't make certain system settings that only a administrator6 can make. And this is the loophole that has let a lot of these viruses operate. So now they close a lot of doors that the hackers7 used to use.
I was in an Apple computer store not too long ago. How does this system compare/ to the Apple system?
I am hopeful that it will finally be as secure and problem- free as Mac OS 10 is and many of the features are very very similar actually. Microsoft has borrowed a lot of features. One of them is a universal search feature. So anywhere you are, you can hit a keystroke and do a search of everything on your computer, I mean, the words inside your files and Emails, you can pull up it in a heartbeat. (形容速度之快)
This will not be released until December 2006, why are they showing it to people like you now? Why aren't they just selling it now?
Um, They want to make sure that all the software companies have time to update their programs so they will run on this thing. I don't envy Microsoft's job here. I mean they, they have to make something solid and secure, it was never designed to be solid and secure, I mean, Windows 15 years ago, the code underneath8 this came out before the Internet and before viruses. So what they're having to do now is to patch things. But they can't change things too much, because then it'll, as they say, break too many programs that people use.
So what if you're a consumer deciding whether to spend money upgrading here?
Well, it's way too soon to know overall how this thing stacks up. But I will say that from the early looks of it, they've really done some good thinking about making things easier to understand. For example, the start menu, where you list all your programs. In Windows XP, the list of programs sort of overlaps9. The start menu has all these confusing triangles pointing out to the right with sub-menus. In the new start menu of Windows Vista, all your programs are in a tidy column with a little search box at the bottom, so you don't have to go hunting through the folders10 finding a certain program; you just type a couple of letters of its name and off you go.
And do you have to buy a new computer in order to run this?
A lot of people will want to upgrade their computers. Yes, it's exactly the same as happened with Windows XP. You can run it but you won't enjoy all the features and speed if you don't have the very latest computer.
David, thanks.
My pleasure.
David Pogue double clicks on technology for the New York Times and for Morning Edition.
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vista
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columnist
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sneak
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translucence
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animations
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| n.生气( animation的名词复数 )；兴奋；动画片；（指电影、录像、电脑游戏的）动画制作 | |
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administrator
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hackers
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underneath
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folders
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