Windows Vista pros and cons
The decision for some small business users to upgrade to Microsoft Windows Vista once it becomes available in early 2007 will depend largely on what the new operating system can do for you and what hardware you have to run it on.
Microsoft has prepared a Get Ready page listing the hardware required to run Windows Vista, and for Windows Vista beta 2 there's a public download available.
It's still early, and Microsoft could easily change aspects of individual features between now and the final release. But based on what I've seen after living with Windows Vista beta 2 for a week, here are five things I think you'll like about the new operating system -- some of which might persuade certain fence-sitters to upgrade -- and five things that may convince others to stick with Windows XP for a few more years.L33tdawg: Attendees to HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia will get an exclusive look at the inner workings of Windows Vista in both the presentation by Dave Tamasi entitled Security Engineering in Windows Vista and the paper by Douglas MacIver on Pen Testing Windows Vista BitLocker Drive Encryption from the Inside. These papers and presentations are exclusive to attendees of HITBSecConf who will be amongst the first in Asia to hear authoritative information direct from Microsoft HQ about the first end-to-end major OS release in the Trustworthy Computing era. It's going to be wicked mad!
