what is so good about vista

[CyberNerd]

Vista, its Clear, Concise and Secure what more do you want, oh yeah and its shiny

 

Secure? I should mention that Vista is vulnerable to 39.7% of all malware currently in circulation, despite microsofts claim that vista doesn't need antivirus !

[john]

Vista, its Clear, Concise and Secure what more do you want, oh yeah and its shiny

 

Secure? I should mention that Vista is vulnerable to 39.7% of all malware currently in circulation, despite microsofts claim that vista doesn't need antivirus !

Jim's really regretting that statement now as it keeps coming back and biting them in the rear end. The key phrase in that statement is LOCKED DOWN, IE he was a fully limited user, no chance of running anything as an administrator, had very limited C drive access and had Parent Controls turned on and set to the strictest setting. Its only like having a well setup GPO set and profile as I bet you could run it in a Primary school with no antivirus and be ok.

[john]

I see the Goth edition of the "Teletubby" theme we all know and hate in XP is the default in Vista

Teletubby land was vanished to the bin ages ago in Alpha releases Craig, we all hated it and as a result its gone and forgotten.

[ITWombat]

Is it now possible with Vista to switch users on a domain machine?

 

On XP Pro you could only do this off domain. Microsoft said this was because of the need to display usernames on the logon screen like XP Home. Funnilly enough there was a beta build of XP SP2 where it temporarily possible.

[john]

I am fairly sure that you can hot swap on the domain now, infact I am 98% sure you can as it does display usernames on the screen so you can select.

[Guest]

Just installed Vista Business here. Was suprised at the quickness of the install on my 3yo Dell Inspiron 8600. No driver issues and windows Aero.

 

Time to see what happens when I domain it in the new year.

[PeterW]

The install is image based now so consists of copy/expand the desired product from the install.wim image and run the hardware detect etc. Hense the quickness of the install.