Windows Neptune: Difference between revisions

Major user experience enhancements were planned to ship with Neptune, including Activity Centers, a new task-based user interface that involved "pages" focusing on daily tasks with facilities that include (but are not limited to) browsing the Internet, communication, document management and entertainment. User management was also improved in Neptune with the introduction of several new user types as well as a dedicated full-screen user interface.  

The new interfaces were primarily implemented using web technology, often using the new [[Mars|Mars framework]]. Another key point of the Neptune project was to experiment with new experiences that did not require the user to manually save their work; some of this effort is visible in the only available build, which enables hibernation by default and requires the user to take extra steps to fully shut down the computer. The Profile-Assisted Boot Accelerator, a feature that captures the system state immediately after a normal boot and then restores it on further boots, was also introduced.