New operating system for Windows Millenium Edition computers

2000/10/01 Waliño, Josu - Elhuyar Fundazioa Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Softwarea

But what new features does this new Windows offer? This news is a Windows that has been developed thinking about the user of the house, without great appearances. That's why it can also be said that it is a Windows for the digital world, specially designed to work with digital images and sounds. Microsoft claims that people have turned to what the home computer uses, that is, fun, access to information and communication. The main novelties offered are:

Multimedia at home

Windows Me offers new possibilities to work multimedia at home. It incorporates new versions of Windows Media Player or DirectX technologies that we already knew and allow us to listen to live music from the Internet. But the main novelty is the application they have added to edit the video at home. It is a software called Windows Movie Maker, created to deal with the success of digital video. Like the videos, digital cameras are becoming more and more widespread, so it incorporates a personal photo album and photo manipulation software.

Internet and printing

Microsoft maintains its commitment to the Internet and this new Windows also has new features in this regard. In addition to the traditional browser and mail manager, the main novelty is the possibility to print documents directly through printers connected to the Internet. With this we can print from our home on a printer located in the other part of the world. In addition, it has added a print preview that allows us to predict how what we will print will appear.

Easy and fast networks

As they have done with all the previous versions, they want to make us believe that this Windows meets the Plug and Play. Perhaps this time is true, but we know the previous cases. However, one of the main novelties of this edition is that it incorporates an assistant that will help us establish a network at home. With it we can create a network with the computers we have at home, using Ethernet or a simple telephone cable. In addition, it has added a system that allows more than one user to connect to the Internet at the same time using a single connection.

Solving problems

Faced with all the problems posed by previous Windows, Microsoft has decided to add tools to fix them. Therefore, and this also in theory, we will no longer support those damn blue screens. We will see if so! The new Windows establishes protections to restrict recovery systems from system configuration or unauthorized scripts. See if this time is really stable!

These are the ones offered by the new Windows from the superficial point of view. Now the final decision is of self: Is it really worth having our computer change the operating system again? What are we going to improve on? Do we have enough hard drive to work with this memory? Is it worth expanding the team or acquiring a new one? Everyone will see what to do.