A synopsis of Paul Thurrott’s feature on Vista:

1. Secure Startup: So that your PC isn’t tampered with after your last log out and also saves you from electronic attacks on storage drives.

2. Better Parental Controls: Vista makes web filtering possible; you can also allow certain content types only, blocking file downloads, setting time restrictions and whoa! make games settings too.

3. Super Fetch: It is a new feature which provides better memory caching and better performance using a USB memory key.

4. Better Firewall: It supports bidirectional filtering. Companies can also manage all IP security configurations.

5. Windows Update will now be accessible via Control Panel.

6. Better Power Management: Has Win XP’s Hibernation feature and Mac OS X - like Instant Sleep mode.



You can also check out the screenshots of Vista’s features at Paul’s site.