Like it or not, Microsoft Vista is coming. Eventually. As a network administrator there’s certainly no 
compelling reason to rush to implement it in your organization until the early adopters – and that generally means home users – have had a chance to discover the hard way the most obvious security flaws that the new software is bound to have. The new OS may have been designed from the ground up with security in mind, but the fact is that no-one knows what vulnerabilities are waiting to be discovered. The only safe operating system is a patched, tried and tested one – not a shiny new one.
Sooner or later, though, you’ll be managing a network of Vista clients – if only because support for Windows 2000 and XP will eventually come to an end – just as it has for Windows 98 and ME. So what is there to look forward to in Vista, from a network administrator’s perspective? Vista for Network Admins: What’s In It for You?
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