Extensoft announced today the release of its Extensions for Windows, which is a product that significantly broadens the functionality of both Windows XP and Vista.  "Extensions for Windows" is the first community driven, modular upgrade for Windows XP and Vista and contains a number of new features Windows users have desired for a long time.

According to a company press release, when the initial news of the Extensions for Windows product was leaked in the form of a video to YouTube by one of the Beta testers, it was seen by over half a million viewers.  Many people found themselves regarding the product as the next version of Microsoft’s operating system- Windows 7.  With this kind of frenzy surrounding even minute changes and additions to Vista, it has to make Microsoft wonder even more.

Extensoft has been listening to discerned customers of Vista, and even XP users who haven’t made the switch, to build the most popular features into its Extensions.  "Extensions for Windows is meant to enhance the typical Windows user’s experience," says Eugene Zvyagintsev, Product Manager for the Extensions. "One of our primary goals is to work with the Windows user community and act on their behalf, bringing more features, usability and value to the operating system that so many of us use every day."

Here’s some other key features being added to Vista and XP via the Extensions:

• -Screen Capture and Desktop Recorder - extends the Print Screen key functionality to capture screenshots and live demos to a file, email or printer.
• -Extended Windows Explorer - enhances the Windows Explorer with a two-panel file manager and ability to group multiple folders.
• -FTP & SFTP Locations - extends "My Computer" with simplified connectivity to Website hosts for uploading images, blogs and programs.
• -Keyboard Shortcuts Manager - extends "My Computer" with convenient keyboard shortcut management.
• -Image and Document Converters - converts variety of document and image formats, including image resizing.
• -PDF Converter - converts printable documents to Adobe(R) PDF format.
• -Disk Usage Analyzer - helps manage and organize computer disk space by locating large files and folders.
• -Search & Replace - provides advanced file search with ability to replace text in text files.
• -File Comparer - compares text files side by side

While an ad-based version will be offered for free at some point in the future, the service becoming available soon will cost $49.95 per user, and will work on Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and even 2000.  Will it do the trick?

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Entry was posted on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm under Microsoft, Vista, xp.  Print This Post

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