[ShadowAce]

Thanks to tubebender for the heads-up on this article.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I attended a MS connections seminar two days ago, the focus was SBS03-R2, Office07, and Vista, with a little SPS and ISA thrown in.

I was actually quite impressed with the way Vista cross indexes with Office 07. The AeroGlass 3D effects are cool, the gadgets feature was also pretty cool although I can see a potential for administrative headaches.

I also like the user application level security feature which allows the admin to create a list of allowed apps for install by a user, no more granting full admin rights to local machines.

I downloaded a beta release for testing and bug reporting but I haven't had time to install them, but now I'm enthused to do so.

[garyhope]

Since I got my laptop in late August 2003, I've dowloaded over 240 "updates" or "security" patches from MS.

Is that good or bad? My Mac based friends never stop trying to give me grief over this.

When I tell them that the 2 essential stock trading and charting programs that I use only run on Windows, they stare uncomprehendingly and become silent. I stil think PC's are faster than Mac's for what I'm doing.

And my friend's Mac's still crash or freeze just like PC's.

[oldcomputerguy]

Poland 1, Microsoft 0.