Microsoft Touts Vista's Restart Manager Feature

Now this is something that I can get behind.  The one thing that I dislike about Windows Updates is that in some cases they require you to reboot your machine to take effect.  With Windows Vista, the operating system will feature a Restart Manager which will update software critical components while still leaving your current session intact.  If a reboot is still necessary, the Restart Manager :

"If you have to reboot, then what happens is that the system, together with the applications, takes a snapshot of the state: the way things are on the screen at that very moment, and then it just updates and restarts the application, or in the case of an operating system update, it will bring the operating system back exactly where it was," Allchin said.

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