User Account ControlUser Account Control (UAC, « contrôle du compte de l'utilisateur ») est un mécanisme de protection des données introduit dans les systèmes d'exploitation Windows Vista et 7. UAC est aussi connu sous ses dénominations précédentes durant le développement de Windows Vista, à savoir UAP (User Account Protection) et LUP (Least User Privilege). Ce mécanisme permet d'exécuter par défaut les programmes avec des droits restreints, évitant ainsi que des applications puissent tourner avec des droits administratifs, qui permettraient de modifier la sécurité du système d'exploitation.
BitLocker Drive EncryptionBitLocker Drive Encryption est une spécification de protection des données développée par Microsoft, et qui fournit le chiffrement de partition. BitLocker est inclus dans les versions Entreprise et Intégrale de Windows Vista, dans toutes les éditions de Windows Server 2008 et Windows Server 2008 R2 sauf l'édition Itanium, dans les éditions Entreprise et Intégrale de Windows 7 et, enfin, dans les éditions Professionnelle et Entreprise de Windows 8, 8.1, 10 et Windows 11. BitLocker fournit trois modes d'opération.
Security and safety features new to Windows VistaThere are a number of security and safety features new to Windows Vista, most of which are not available in any prior Microsoft Windows operating system release. Beginning in early 2002 with Microsoft's announcement of its Trustworthy Computing initiative, a great deal of work has gone into making Windows Vista a more secure operating system than its predecessors. Internally, Microsoft adopted a "Security Development Lifecycle" with the underlying ethos of "Secure by design, secure by default, secure in deployment".
Technical features new to Windows VistaWindows Vista (formerly codenamed Windows "Longhorn") has many significant new features compared with previous Microsoft Windows versions, covering most aspects of the operating system. In addition to the new user interface, security capabilities, and developer technologies, several major components of the core operating system were redesigned, most notably the audio, print, display, and networking subsystems; while the results of this work will be visible to software developers, end-users will only see what appear to be evolutionary changes in the user interface.
Windows SearchWindows Search (also known as Instant Search) is a content index desktop search platform by Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista as a replacement for both the previous Indexing Service of Windows 2000 and the optional MSN Desktop Search for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, designed to facilitate local and remote queries for files and non-file items in compatible applications including Windows Explorer. It was developed after the postponement of WinFS and introduced to Windows constituents originally touted as benefits of that platform.
DirectShowDirectShow (sometimes abbreviated as DS or DShow), codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. It is the replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology. Based on the Microsoft Windows Component Object Model (COM) framework, DirectShow provides a common interface for media across various programming languages, and is an extensible, filter-based framework that can render or record media files on demand at the request of the user or developer.
NetMeetingNetMeeting est un logiciel de la société Microsoft qui permet de faire de la voix sur IP des conférences sur Internet. Il est pré-installé sur plusieurs versions des systèmes d'exploitation Windows, de Windows 95 OSR2 à Windows XP. C'est l'ancêtre de l'actuel Windows Messenger de la même société. Il n'est plus pré installé depuis Windows Vista. Il a été remplacé par Microsoft Office Live Meeting. La dernière version est la v3.02 (2007), il s'agit de la v3.01, patchée pour pouvoir fonctionner sur Windows Vista.
Transactional NTFSTransactional NTFS (abbreviated TxF) is a component introduced in Windows Vista and present in later versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that brings the concept of atomic transactions to the NTFS , allowing Windows application developers to write file-output routines that are guaranteed to either succeed completely or to fail completely. Major operating system components, including System Restore, Task Scheduler, and Windows Update, rely on TxF for stability.
Windows Vista I/O technologiesWindows Vista introduced a number of new I/O functions to the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. They are intended to shorten the time taken to boot the system, improve the responsiveness of the system, and improve the reliability of data storage. Vista modifies the behavior of asynchronous I/O operations. With the new asynchronous I/O APIs, a thread, different from the one that issued the I/O request, can be notified when the operation completes.
NTLDRNTLDR, qui signifie NT Loader, est le nom du chargeur d'amorçage de Windows 2003, XP, 2000 et NT 4.0 et NT 3.x sur les processeurs x86 et x86-64 (AMD64 et Intel 64) ; les versions suivantes et actuelles de Windows (Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 et Windows Server 2008) ne l'utilisent plus. NTLDR permet de choisir, lorsque plusieurs systèmes Microsoft Windows sont installés sur une même machine, quel système on souhaite amorcer.
