Windows Vista Facts
February 15th, 2007 at 11:11pm |
- The background image of the mountain reflected in a lake is actually Grinnell Point on Swiftcurrent Lake, located at Glacier National Park in Montana.
- Aero stands for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, Open! (someone got paid for that…)
- The ’start’ button has been removed and replaced by the Vista.. Pearl (so you’re all going to call it that now right…?)
- Vista has 50,000,000 lines of code (10m more than XP) and if you put each line of code end to end it would stretch all the way from London to New York.
- Windows Vista was the fastest downloaded in the history of Microsoft. In fact, there were 400,000 downloads in the first two days. At the peak of download activity there was an incredible 55Gb of data being transferred every second, a rate that was enforce due to bandwidth restrictions surrounding the World Cup*. In total, 3.75 Petabytes of data was downloaded and based on a 60GB hard drive that is enough to fill every hard drive of every Microsoft employee!
- The first public deployment of Vista in the UK was at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival during August 2006. 40 PC’s were deployed overnight and allowed 10,000 festival goers the ability to buy their tickets using a Winodws Vista PC for the four week duration of the festival.
- There are 2,715 new features in Windows Vista, compared to 1,200 in Windows XP. This was made possible by the contributions of over 5,000 people including 1,900 developers, 2,350 testers and 750 program managers.
Now go forth and win that pub quiz!
*that’s ’soccer’ for those who weren’t sure 
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